Porc au Prince对《A Streetcar Named Desire》的笔记(1)

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After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion.

Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think.

He acts like an animal, has an animal's habits! Eats like
one, moves like one, talks like one! There's even something-
sub-human-something not quite to the stage
of humanity yet ! Yes, something-ape-like about him,
like one of those pictures I've seen in-anthropological
studies! Thousands and thousands of years have passed
him right by, and there he is-Stanley Kowalski-survivor
of the stone age! Bearing the raw meat home from
the kill in the jungle! And you-you here-waiting for
him! Maybe he'll strike you or maybe grunt and kiss
you! That is, if kisses have been discovered yet! Night
falls and the other apes gather! There in the front of the
cave, all grunting like him, and swilling and gnawing
and hulking I His poker night!-you call it-this party
of apes! Somebody growls-some creature snatches at
something-the fight is on! God! Maybe we are a long
way from being made in God's image, but Stella-my
sister-there has been some progress since then! Such
things as art-as poetry and music-such kinds of new
light have come into the world since then! In some kinds
of people some tenderer feelings have had some little
beginning! That we have got to make grow! And cling
to, and hold as our flag! In this dark march toward whatever
it is we're approaching .... Don't-don't hang back
with the brutes!

I never was hard or self-sufficient enough. When people
are soft-soft people have got to shimmer and glow--they've
got to put on soft colors, the colors of butterfly
wings, and put a-paper lantern over the light. ...

Don't you just love these long rainy afternoons
in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour-but a
little piece of eternity dropped into your hands