I need the script for Look Homeward, Angel (it's a play) and I've googled it but I can't seem to find it!. Can someone tell me where I can get it on the interweb!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Title: Look Homeward, Angel (1929) Author: Thomas Wolfe * A Project Gutenberg of Australia eBook * eBook No!.: 0300721!.txt Edition: 1 Language: English Character set encoding: Latin-1(ISO-8859-1)--8 bit Date first posted: April 2003 Date most recently updated: April 2003 This eBook was produced by: Don Lainson dlainson@sympatico!.ca Project Gutenberg of Australia eBooks are created from printed editions which are in the public domain in Australia, unless a copyright notice is included!. We do NOT keep any eBooks in compliance with a particular paper edition!. Copyright laws are changing all over the world!. Be sure to check the copyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributing this file!. This eBook is made available at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever!. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg of Australia License which may be viewed online at http://gutenberg!.net!.au/licence!.html To contact Project Gutenberg of Australia go to http://gutenberg!.net!.au --------------------------------------!.!.!. A Project Gutenberg of Australia eBook Title: Look Homeward, Angel (1929) A Story of the Buried Life Author: Thomas Wolfe TO A!. B!. "Then, as all my soules bee, Emparadis'd in you, (in whom alone I understand, and grow and see,) The rafters of my body, bone Being still with you, the Muscle, Sinew, and Veine, Which tile this house, will come againe!." TO THE READER This is a first book, and in it the author has written of experience which is now far and lost, but which was once part of the fabric of his life!. If any reader, therefore, should say that the book is "autobiographical" the writer has no answer for him: it seems to him that all serious work in fiction is autobiographical-- that, for instance, a more autobiographical work than "Gulliver's Travels" cannot easily be imagined!. This note, however, is addressed principally to those persons whom the writer may have known in the period covered by these pages!. To these persons, he would say what he believes they understand already: that this book was written in innocence and nakedness of spirit, and that the writer's main concern was to give fulness, life, and intensity to the actions and people in the book he was creating!. Now that it is to be published, he would insist that this book is a fiction, and that he meditated no man's portrait here!. But we are the sum of all the moments of our lives--all that is ours is in them: we cannot escape or conceal it!. If the writer has used the clay of life to make his book, he has only used what all men must, what none can keep from using!. Fiction is not fact, but fiction is fact selected and understood, fiction is fact arranged and charged with purpose!. Dr!. Johnson remarked that a man would turn over half a library to make a single book: in the same way, a novelist may turn over half the people in a town to make a single figure in his novel!. This is not the whole method but the writer believes it illustrates the whole method in a book that is written from a middle distance and is without rancour or bitter intention!. LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL PART ONE !. !. !. a stone, a leaf, an unfound door; of a stone, a leaf, a door!. And of all the forgotten faces!. Naked and alone we came into exile!. In her dark womb we did not know our mother's face; from the prison of her flesh have we come into the unspeakable and incommunicable prison of this earth!. Which of us has known his brother!? Which of us has looked into his father's heart!? Which of us has not remained forever prison-pent!? Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone!? O waste of loss, in the hot mazes, lost, among bright stars on this most weary unbright cinder, lost! Remembering speechlessly we seek the great forgotten language, the lost lane-end into heaven, a stone, a leaf, an unfound door!. Where!? When!? O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again!. 1 A destiny that leads the English to the Dutch is strange enough; but one that leads from Epsom into Pennsylvania, and thence into the hills that shut in Altamont over the proud coral cry of the cock, and the soft stone smile of an angel, is touched by that dark miracle of chance which makes new magic in a dusty world!. Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas!. The seed of our destruction will blossom in the desert, the alexin of our cure grows by a mountain rock, and our lives are haunted by a Georgia slattern, because a London cut-purse went unhung!. Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years!. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to deaWww@QuestionHome@Com |