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 * Steve Bleasdell //Barn Thistles,// 2005 Oil**



=__Tennessee Williams 1911-1983__= Excerpts from: //A Streetcar Named Desire//

(Penguin -- p.100) And for the last year or two she has been washed up like poison. That's why she's here this summer, visiting royalty, putting on all this act - because she's practically told by the mayor to get out of town! Yes, did you know there was an army camp near Laurel and your sister's was one of the places called "Out-of-Bounds"?
 * Stanley:** Honey, I told you I thoroughly checked on these stories! Now wait till I finish. The trouble with Dame Blanche was that she couldn't put on her act any more in Laurel! They got wised up after two or three dates with her and then they quit, and she goes on to another, the same old line, same old act, same old hooey! But the town was too small for this to go on forever! And as time went by she became a town character. Regarded as not just different but downright loco - nuts.

(Penguin -- p.117)
 * Blanche:** I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell truth, I tell what ought to be truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it!

Watch SCENE ELEVEN of //A Streetcar Named Desire// [|Here.]

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