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<\/a><\/p>\nTennessee Williams, Letters, Volume 1<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Act II<\/p>\n F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Swimmers<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Act III<\/p>\n John Cheever, The Swimmer<\/em><\/p>\n Act IV<\/p>\n George Seferis, In the manner of G.S.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 … Continue reading <\/a>“I shan’t do anything for the next weeks but swim and lie on the beach till I begin to feel human again…”<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>“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\u00a0when he would resolutely stop thinking and go to the (…) coast for a week to wash his mind in the water.”<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>“To be embraced by and sustained by the light green water was less a pleasure, it seemed, than the resumption of a natural condition.”<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>“…if we see ‘the Aegean flower with corpses’
\nit will be with those who tried to catch the big ship by swimming after it…”<\/p>\n