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...point in last week's disastrous Indianapolis 500, one of the thousands of sodden revelers camped out in the axle-deep infield mud aptly summed up the utter madness of it all. Asked what he thought of the world's largest, richest and costliest racing event, he said: "What race...
...idea what time of day it was. She wanted to leave this climate, this wetness. She becoming sodden, always drifting and softly dreaming. Sinking, once, in the deep darkness; into the terror that swallowed her. The imminent threat of "no return" whispering all around her; in the whale's gut of her fear; echoing and echoing. Another deeper wave and another "no return"; "no return" splashing against her mind, rhythm of the unceasing ocean. How she had cried and cursed then. Sworn to never again let the drifting carry her so far. Discover so much. Sworn to not feel that...
This is the way she usually found herself; completely soaked. Soaked! The only word for this world; and she had to leave it. It was too damn sodden, soggy, and dead...
Mourning Becomes Electra is like a day of wild wind and rain that finally reduces everyone and everything to a sodden, nerveless pulp. O'Neill transposed the Oresteia-the legend of the doomed Greek house of Atreus-to post-Civil War New England and laced it with Freudianism. O'Neill never achieves the catharsis of pity and terror, only the strangulated sob of a guilty Christian conscience: "I believed in heaven. Now I know there is only hell...
Moreover, Winner wants the audience to believe that the children (aged about 9 and 11) regard any thing Quint says as literally true. Chil dren are often cruel but rarely that stupid. Quint lapses into a sodden, brogue-trotting Irishman, who mumbles to Miles, "If you love someone, sometimes you really want to kill them." Pow! Wilde! The governess drowns in the tarn - from an acute case of sabotaged rowboat. Quint is struck down, like St. Sebastian, by Miles' bow and arrow...