Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Here is the essential theme of Woolf's novels, with their dream-sense of human beings as interior space floating down the corridors of a world of bewitched objects. The letters - fascinating for what they don't say, can't say - reveal between the lines the author living out her own theme...
Hampton's dedication to this dream world he created, complete with magic script, elaborate ritual, and symbolic objects, is somewhat disturbing...
...kind of paradise sunny types have tried to pass off on campers since pullman cars first began to take troops of babies to synthetic Shangri-Las in the Berkshires and Poconos. Otis speaks exclusively in smiley cliches, trying to convince both his counselors and his campers of a dream of innocence that only he sees. Like almost everyone else in the play, he can never say just what he means...
...stare at their feet and examine themselves. Tyler desperately grapples for Missy and she, not wanting to deal with new-realized realities of existence, squirms away from him. Otis finds his campers rebellious, and as vandals invade his property and ruin his rowboats this pathetic non-Prospero finds his dream dissolved, his charms overthrown; "what strength I have's mine own" is not very much...
...reveal some of his history in late October to William Beecher, diplomatic correspondent for the Boston Globe. At that time, Odell decided to "go public" about his background and disclose some of the things he knows. ("I'm wired," he says. "I know more than you'll ever dream.") With passionate intensity he states his motivation in coming out: "I finally got tired of Americans being lied to by elected and appointed officials. Who needs a charismatic emperor in this country?" After the Beecher interviews resulted in two consecutive frontpage stories on October 24 and 25, Odell began to accept...