with a hey, ho, the wind & the rain

suffer one more quote, this one from the end:

And now, all that lost magic had come to life again here in the little whitened square, here in this old French town, and he was closer to his childhood and his father's life of power and magnificence than he could eve be again in savage new America; and as the knowledge of these strange, these lost yet familiar things returned to him, his heart was filled with all the mystery of time, dark time, the mystery of strange, million-visaged time that haunts us with the briefness of our days.
He thought of home.

I finished reading Of Time and the River yesterday. Combined with Look Homeward, Angel that's just about 1,500 pages of Thomas Wolfe's writing, and I've become quite attatched to him. His storytelling(I feel like I should point out that I'm aware of some vicious criticism and feel like those critics entirely miss the point of reading him), his writing, his life...I've never known anyone like him. After reading the story of his youth and young manhood lived out by a boy named Eugene Gant, I just want to cry on his shoulder and ask him not to forget me.

There are several more books of his, and I will read them, but I don't know when. He left such an enormous body of work, I can't believe he lived and wrote and experienced so much before dying at age 38.

Often I was reminded of Eugene Oneill, who was actually part of the same "lost" generation of writers, and my next pet-project is a comparative essay of how the authors deal with the same topics, feelings and themes.

The Moon for the Misbegotten performance was fantastic. The only fault I found was that Eve Best playing Josie, the large and powerful leading female character, is rather skinny and so some of the lines talking referring to her body sounded kind of silly. It's not a big deal, I know that its the producers' perogative to do different things with others' plays. Trudi acted a version of Waiting for Godot with Didi and Gogo played by women, and there's a Taming of the Shrew going around with an all male cast, to cite two examples. Eve Best did do a great job and so did the rest of the cast, especially Kevin Spacey as Jamie Tyrone.

Spouting off about details and how the play affected me would be boring and unfamiliar here, suffice to say that it got to me.

We also visited the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors . Again, a powerful experience but the effort to put it into feeble words on livejournal would be a waste.

Other than the play and the art, honestly I did not like what I experienced of New York at all. The rudeness, carelessness, virtol, pollution, overpricing and crowding makes Boston look like a simple country town. I will return to see museums and more plays, but I would never live in NYC or visit there for more than a night or two at a time.