Thomas Edison’s last words were ‘It’s very beautiful over there’. I don’t know where there is, but I believe it’s somewhere, and I hope it’s beautiful.
—John Green, Looking for Alaska (via libraryland)
—Matt Stone and Trey Parker on NPR's Fresh Air
Audio is now up for Terry’s interview with Trey Parker and Matt Stone about The Book of Mormon. (There are a lot of songs from the musical on here, with explanations.) Enjoy!
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The Flu Season: My New Favorite Play
NURSE. Families are only groups of people. And groups of peo- ple mean well, they try. Unless they’re angry mobs waving broken bottles and golf clubs, and even then, they still — in their way — try. Here we also try to create a familial atmosphere. Or at least we try to act like a group of people. And the grounds are beautiful, this lovely time of year. The temperature dropping. Fall. Us, trying. The wonderful maple trees.
But all you need to know is that I, like the rest, like you, sit here with a serious history, with little and real fears and dreams, a heart and two eyes, looking out, from a body of bones, watching you and the rest of the world for some sign. See me looking at you. (Brief pause.) We have a little more time.
EPILOGUE. What if you were writing a play and your feelings changed? You didn’t even know how you felt anymore, or what you thought. You couldn’t keep going. The image disintegrated. Your mind wasn’t up to it, or your heart. Would your claim to realism be lost if you didn’t somehow incorporate the change, the not- knowing, the cold feeling? Even if only subtly? Would you just abort the whole thing? Wash your hands of the whole bloody mess? What would you do, back on Earth? If this were you? (Pause.)
WOMAN. You can stop loving me overnight?
MAN. I started loving you overnight.
This wonderful Play was written by Will Eno, and if you get the opportunity you should pick it up and read it, it is a beautiful exploration of the human psyche, love, loss, and the temporal matter that allows for us to exist and brings about the end of our existence in due time. It is a play about all of the things we are afraid of, and it is beautiful.
Maybe I should leave, to help you see…Nothing gets better than this, and this is everything we need.
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