That's why Tennessee Williams was a great writer. Poetically, dramatically, it was fantastic stuff. And with the landscape, the losers in life populating it. His short stories have got rhythm, something musical about them.
In good comedy, the structure comes from truth and that weird eye that looks at the way life is.
If you're venturing into territory that is slightly operatic, it all has to be done so carefully.
My feet always danced to Irish traditional music, but I was very glad to get out of the North of Ireland in the mid-Seventies when it was really closed and tight and relentlessly unforgiving.
When I was young I read 'L'Etranger' by Camus, and it made me aware of the strangeness of life.
Christianity has its own superstition, anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.
