Act I
“I shan’t do anything for the next weeks but swim and lie on the beach till I begin to feel human again…”
Tennessee Williams, Letters, Volume 1
Act II
“For (…) years, swimming had been a sort of refuge, and he turned to it as one man to music or another to drink. There was a point when he would resolutely stop thinking and go to the (…) coast for a week to wash his mind in the water.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Swimmers
Act III
“To be embraced by and sustained by the light green water was less a pleasure, it seemed, than the resumption of a natural condition.”
John Cheever, The Swimmer
Act IV
“…if we see ‘the Aegean flower with corpses’
it will be with those who tried to catch the big ship by swimming after it…”
George Seferis, In the manner of G.S.