词汇 | author-s children |
词源 | author’s children. Knowing his life was drawing to a close, Eugene O’Neill asked his wife Carlotta to help him destroy his 11-play cycle, A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed, which he had been working on for more than 20 years. “Go and get the unfinished manuscript and let’s sit in front of the fire- place and burn them,” he told her. Later she recalled: “And so we sat feeding the flames, through the long dusk. When the darkness came O’Neill had passed into unequivocal silence. You don’t know how horrible it was. It was like tearing up children.” |
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