The Anarchist by David Mamet

Author:David Mamet [Mamet, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Drama, American, General
ISBN: 1559364122
Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist
Published: 2012-06-12T04:00:00+00:00

(Pause.)

CATHY: The Morning Star is Venus.

ANN: In this context.

CATHY: It was the star of Bethlehem and—as the Star of Evening—shone into the cave where Christ was born.

ANN: In this context.

CATHY: That’s what it means.

ANN: Yes. But the phrase also occurs here. In your Concordance Bible, in the Book of Esther. Where, in the margin, we find: “Esther, who is also Astarte and Ishtar. Whence our word star.” And a poem. “Written in sequestration. To Althea. I long . . .”

Cathy: All right . . .

ANN: “To gaze, once again. Upon you: on the Morning Star.” Where is Althea?

CATHY: You, understandably, assume, that that which is . . .

ANN: “Withheld”?

CATHY: You assume. That everything that’s said here, which is, of necessity, opaque . . .

ANN: . . . why would it be “opaque”?

CATHY: Must, of necessity, be criminal, or shameful. That it must be sexual, or . . .

ANN: Is love between two women shameful?

CATHY: It’s private. Do you understand? As sex between any two people is private. The unhealthy may confuse the wish for privacy with shame. Do you want me to tell you my fantasies? To . . .

ANN: Everything said here is said in confidence.

CATHY: Oh, please. You inform the Board . . .

ANN: All I forward to the Board are my conclusions.

CATHY: How are they arrived at? If prurience . . .

ANN: . . . am I prurient? . . .

CATHY: . . . and curiosity are confused? If a desire for privacy is confused with . . .

ANN: I . . .

CATHY: One lies, wait, or, say one withholds . . .

ANN: Everyone who sits there lies, I understand. I would.

CATHY: You would . . .

ANN: To go free, yes, of course.

CATHY: And yet, and yet—knowing that, you indulge, in the name of, what? “Psychology,” your penchant for what, “observation”?

ANN: Is love between women unnatural?

CATHY: Everything in prison is unnatural. Would you like me to set you free?

ANN: How would you set me free?

CATHY: No. Would you like me. To set you free?

ANN: How am I bound?

CATHY: Will you answer me?

ANN: You wrote: “The troubled cannot be freed by psychiatry.” That they do not lack psychiatry.

CATHY: . . . that’s right.

ANN: “. . . they lack love.” (Pause) Do I lack love?

CATHY: Of course you do.

ANN: . . . I lack love . . .

CATHY: That’s why you’re frightened.

ANN: I’m frightened. Why?

CATHY: Because you’re leaving.

ANN: Has my work here given me Love?

CATHY: It’s given you structure. Which is to say, repression . . .

ANN: Sexual repression?

CATHY: Of a deeper desire.

ANN: For?

CATHY: Submission.

ANN: To?

CATHY: To God. (Pause) Which is why you mock the possibility in others. I understand. Believe me.

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