The America Play, and Other WorksA collection of plays and essays by one of America's premier playwrights. Includes the essays "Possession," "from Elements of Style," and "An Equation for Black People Onstage," and the plays Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom, Betting on Dust Commander, Pickling, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, Devotees in the Garden of Love, and The America Play. |
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Page 95
... this one . His wind : breath ; gas . The prophylactic : our love object . Thuh light likes this one . Our love . Dont open it Miss Miss . People - next - door - going without ! Charles ! Hee ! Such bicepts . Taut . Like Steel ! Such ...
... this one . His wind : breath ; gas . The prophylactic : our love object . Thuh light likes this one . Our love . Dont open it Miss Miss . People - next - door - going without ! Charles ! Hee ! Such bicepts . Taut . Like Steel ! Such ...
Page 140
... ThisOne and ThatOne . While any other suitor in thuh area of conflict would be smote right down for dead ThisOne has uh move which ThatOne counters and ThatOne has uh counter to which ThisOne always gives reply . From what Madame Odelia ...
... ThisOne and ThatOne . While any other suitor in thuh area of conflict would be smote right down for dead ThisOne has uh move which ThatOne counters and ThatOne has uh counter to which ThisOne always gives reply . From what Madame Odelia ...
Page 147
... ThisOne . It is only an extravagance of your devotion which offered up the bloomers and now allows the troops to dis- tinguish themselves . Of your jewlery , most gracious Miss George , both ThisOne and ThatOne have made great use ...
... ThisOne . It is only an extravagance of your devotion which offered up the bloomers and now allows the troops to dis- tinguish themselves . Of your jewlery , most gracious Miss George , both ThisOne and ThatOne have made great use ...
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