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This is what I dreamt. I didn’t dream so...

Flan (Flanders) Kittredge

Six Degrees of Separation

John Guare

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Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
1
Time & Place
New York City, 1990
Length
Short
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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This is what I dreamt. I didn’t dream so much as realize this. I felt so close to the paintings. I wasn’t just selling them like pieces of meat. I remembered why I loved paintings in the first place-- what had got me into this-- and I thought-- dreamed-- remembered-- how easy it is for a painter to lose a painting.
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Let me study with you. Let me into second grade! What is your secret? And this is what she said: “Secret? I don’t have any secret. I just know when to take their drawings away from them.”

Guare, John, Six Degrees of Separation, Vintage Books, 1994, pp 45-46.

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