Solomon’s Seal —
A follow-up to my May 28 entry,
“The Eightfold Way and Solomon’s Seal.”
From the New York Times of May (Mental Health Month) 31, 2003:
Martha Scott,
Original Emily in “Our Town,”
Dies at 88
By DOUGLAS MARTIN
Martha Scott, who created the role of the sweet, ethereal Emily in the original Broadway production of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” and was nominated for an Oscar for repeating it in the film version, died on Wednesday [May 28, 2003] in Los Angeles. She was 88.
United Artists
Martha Scott with William Holden
in the 1940 film of “Our Town.”
A quotation from Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon:
“Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.”
Two quotations from “The Diamond Project“:
“We all know that something is eternal,” the Stage Manager says. “And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t even stars—everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings.”
— John Lahr, review of “Our Town”“Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death, passion fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a raging flame.”
— Song of Solomon