Kushner's Quotation 'Marx' (was Re: Queer Angels of History)

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Fri Feb 12 21:31:15 PST 1999


Also to the point by Kushner:

What in this world is not evanescent? What in this world is real and not seeming? Love, which seems the realest thing, is really nothing at all; a simple grey rock is a thousand times more tangible than love is; and the earth is such a rock, and love only a breeze that dreams over its surface, weightless and traceless; and yet love's more mineral, more dense, more veined with gold and corrupted with lead, more bitter and more weighty than the earth's profoundest matter. Love is a sea of desire stretched between shores -- only the shores are real, but how much more compelling is the sea. Love is the world's infinite mutability; lies, hatred, murder even are all knit up in it; it is the inevitable blossoming of its opposites, a magnificent rose smelling faintly of blood. A dream which makes the world seem . . . an illusion.

_The Illusion_ by Tony Kushner, freely adapted

from Pierre Corneille's _L'Illusion Comique_



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