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\nOn Alex and Christine’s balcony. Heartbroken.<\/i><\/p>\n
\nOn Alex and Christine’s balcony. Heartbroken.<\/i><\/p>\n
From Tennessee Williams’s Notebooks<\/a> Tuesday \u2013 Jan 5, 1943<\/p>\n This is the first time that anybody ever knocked me down and so I suppose it ought to be recorded. Unhappily I can\u2019t go into details. It was a case of guilt and shame in which I was relatively the innocent party, since I merely offered entertainment which was accepted with apparent gratitude until the untimely entrance of other parties. Feel a little sorrowful about it. So unnecessary. The sort of behavior pattern imposed by the conventional falsehoods.<\/p>\n Donnie comforted me when he arrived on the scene. Now he is upstairs with another party procured in the bar. Why do they strike us? What is our offense? We offer them a truth which they cannot bear to confess except in privacy and the dark \u2013 a truth which is inherently as bright as the morning sun. He struck me because he did what I did and his friends discovered it. Yes, it hurt \u2013 inside. I do not know if I will be able to sleep. But tomorrow I suppose the swollen face will be normal again and I will pick up the usual thread of life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Alex and Christine’s balcony. Heartbroken. From Tennessee Williams’s Notebooks: Tuesday \u2013 Jan 5, 1943 This is the first time that anybody ever knocked me down and so I suppose it ought to be recorded. Unhappily I can\u2019t go into … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=thesheivari-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0300116829\")