Sinclair Lewis
Main Street
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Excerpt: ...out of life. And now we are having a circus, you want us to stop! Carol answered slowly: I wonder if I can explain what I mean? It's the difference between looking at the comic page and looking at Manet. I want fun out of this, of course. Only--I don't think it would be less fun, but more, to produce as perfect a play as we can. She was curiously exalted; her voice was strained; she stared not at the company but at the grotesques scrawled on the backs of wing-pieces by forgotten stage-hands. I wonder if you can understand the 'fun' of making a beautiful thing, the pride and satisfaction of it, and the holiness! The company glanced…
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Excerpt: ...out of life. And now we are having a circus, you want us to stop! Carol answered slowly: I wonder if I can explain what I mean? It's the difference between looking at the comic page and looking at Manet. I want fun out of this, of course. Only--I don't think it would be less fun, but more, to produce as perfect a play as we can. She was curiously exalted; her voice was strained; she stared not at the company but at the grotesques scrawled on the backs of wing-pieces by forgotten stage-hands. I wonder if you can understand the 'fun' of making a beautiful thing, the pride and satisfaction of it, and the holiness! The company glanced doubtfully at one another. In Gopher Prairie it is not good form to be holy except at a church, between ten-thirty and twelve on Sunday. But if we want to do it, we've got to work; we must have self-discipline. They were at once amused and embarrassed. They did not want to affront this mad woman. They backed off and tried to rehearse. Carol did not hear Juanita, in front, protesting to Maud Dyer, If she calls it fun and holiness to sweat over her darned old play-well, I don't! IV Carol attended the only professional play which came to Gopher Prairie that spring. It was a tent show, presenting snappy new dramas under canvas. The hard-working actors doubled in brass, and took tickets; and between acts sang about the moon in June, and sold Dr. Wintergreen's Surefire Tonic for Ills of the Heart, Lungs, Kidneys, and Bowels. They presented Sunbonnet Nell: A Dramatic Comedy of the Ozarks, with J. Witherbee Boothby wringing the soul by his resonant Yuh ain't done right by mah little gal, Mr. City Man, but yer a-goin' to find that back in these-yere hills there's honest folks and good shots! The audience, on planks beneath the patched tent, admired Mr. Boothby's beard and long rifle; stamped their feet in the dust at the spectacle of his heroism; shouted when the comedian aped the City Lady's use...
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- ISBN: 978-1-4432-4727-6
- EAN: 9781443247276
- Produktnummer: 14788181
- Verlag: Books LLC, Reference Series
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 164 S.
- Masse: H24.6 cm x B18.9 cm x D0.9 cm 331 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 331
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