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~ICHA~D POI~IER
the thing
in
itself. And willy-nilly she is caught up into the fight
with the immediate object.
The impossibility of living through the "eye"
is
the impossibility
of totally divorcing the self from time, biology, economics and the
words by which the free, visionary environment of the "eye"
is
translated into that social entity: the "I," living in relation to "near
things." Lawrence here recognizes that Lou's dilemma for anyone
determined to make it the subject of literature, imposes nearly in–
superable problems of expression. The recognition
is
not itself an
accomplishment. Emerson had long before articulated it in
The Poet
and
The Transcendentalist.
What distinguishes Lawrence is
his
refusal
to evade in his writing the difficulties of which he is also a theoreti–
cian. Only a few American writers, similarly concerned with the
invisible and inaudible world, deserve to be so honored.
TH EATER 1967
Richard Barr
Clinton
Wilder
Edward Albee
presents
A Festivol
of
AmeritoR Ploys
at the CHERRY LANE THEATER
Oct. l8-Nov. 13
Nov. 29-Jan. 1
THE BUTTER AND EGG MAN
by George S. Kaufman
LIFE AND DEATH
Twoo new plays by Edward Albee
and other new American plays and revivals to follow
CHERRY LANE THEATER
38 Commerce Street
212-YU 9-2020
