Mortality

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Speaker

Human beings dream of life everlasting.

Maggie

A puff and crackle and the night sky blooms with an eerie greenish glow. Children shriek on the gallery.

Williams

The human animal is a beast that dies and if he’s got money he buys and buys and buys and I think the reason he buys everything he can buy is that in the back of his mind he has the crazy hope that one of his purchases will be life everlasting! – Which it never can be.

Big Daddy

Ignorance – of mortality – is a comfort. A man don’t have that comfort, he’s the only living thing that conceives of death, that knows what it is. The others go without knowing, which is the way that anything living should go, go without knowing, without any knowledge of it, and yet a pig squeals, but a man sometimes, he can keep a tight mouth about it.

Big Daddy