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Category: Edward Albee

Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don’t know the difference.George: No, but we must carry on as though we did.Martha: Amen.

illusion, truth

In my mind, Martha, you are buried in cement right up to your neck. No… right up to your nose… that’s much quieter.

anger, imagination, insult

… what I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing cards when you’re a kid, and pornographic playing cards when you’re older. It’s that when you’re a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you’re older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy.

fantasies, pornography, sex, the-zoo-story

Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.

anger, love, marriage

George, who is out somewhere there in the dark, who is good to me – whom I revile, who can keep learning the games we play as quickly as I can change them. Who can make me happy and I do not wish to be happy. And yes, I do wish to be happy. George and Martha: Sad, sad, sad. Whom I will not forgive for having come to rest; for having seen me and having said: “Yes, this will do”. Who has made the hideous, the hurting, the insulting mistake of loving… me, and must be punished for it. George and Martha… Sad, sad, sad.

I write to find out what I’m talking about.

Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don’t know the difference.George: No, but we must carry on as though we did.Martha: Amen.

illusion, truth