Word: firstness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rehearsing a group of actors in his last play. To be performed for himself alone, it is about how his relatives and friends will react to his death. In the play-within-the-play (a favorite Anouilh device), the characters and their lines are identical with those of the first act but enriched by Antoine's commenting presence...
Only the actors and essential stage hands are allowed in the theater during Anouilh's rehearsals, and everyone involved in an Anouilh production is generally expected to maintain strict silence about the play. On first nights he hides in a corner of the theater. As usual, after the opening of Cher Antoine, he slipped quietly out of the house before the applause began and shuffled off into the night, without taking a curtain call...
...makes him uneasy, at best. When told by the interviewer that many writers and college students were "tremendously hung-up" over his words and asked if he felt any responsibility to them, Dylan begged off. "Boy, if I could ease someone's mind, I'd be the first one to do it. I want to lighten every load. Straighten out every burden. I don't want anybody to be hung-up-especially over me, or anything I do. That's not the point...
...that we had a contract for. Follow me? So eventually I had my motorcycle accident and that just got me out of the whole thing, 'cause I didn't care anymore. As it stands now, I could write a book. But I'm gonna write it first, and then give it to them. You know what I mean...
...Game Hunter Fred Bear remembers the moment clearly. It was 1933, the first day of the Michigan deer hunting season, and he was deep in the wilds of the Porcupine Mountains. "I crept out onto a creek bank," he recalls, "and about 100 yards upstream stood a deer. I raised my rifle and shot it. That was it; the season was just an hour old, and I already had my limit. Right there I decided to give up gun hunting. It was too darned easy...