Word: sequiturish
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...acquaintance in a pub with a poor seedy poet of approximately his own age named Spooner (John Gielgud). He has brought Spooner home to a sumptuous drawing room, designed by John Bury. There, Spooner holds forth on art and life and sundry other topics very much in the non-sequiturish fashion of the theater of the absurd. Hirst chugalugs drink after drink till he crawls off to bed on his hands and knees...
...laughs do not detonate every minute, much of the evening consists of a fiendishly clever talkfest. Some of it is bantering class raillery, some of it Shavian disquisition-as when Mrs. Rogers delivers a monologue on the advantages of a strictly segregated society-and some of it prime non sequiturish zaniness out of the theater of the absurd. When Eugene goes into a huff, for in stance, and threatens to leave the apartment, Mrs. Rogers tells him that he must not go: "The time is 3 in the morning . . . streets are filled with Australians...
Most of this is rendered in maun dering monologues and non-sequiturish asides. A Williams groping for words, parched for images, fumbling in dramatic craft- all this seems incredible, but alas, it is true...
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