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Catharine Holly is the niece of Mrs. Venable and the last person to see her son, Sebastian, while they traveled abroad the previous summer. After Sebastian’s murder, Mrs. Venable was horrified to learn of Catharine’s disturbing and bloody account of his death and has locked her niece away in a mental asylum to keep her quiet. However, her attempts to silence Catharine have not worked and she has brought Catharine to her home to meet Doctor Cukrowicz, a surgeon who specializes in lobotomies.
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START: SISTER: What did you take out of that box on the table?
CATHARINE: Just a cigarette, Sister.
SISTER: Put it back in the box.
CATHARINE: Too late, it’s already lighted.
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END: CATHARINE: He liked me and so I loved him … [She cries a little again.] If he’d kept hold of my hand I could have saved him! – Sebastian suddenly said to me last summer: ‘Let’s fly north, little bird – I want to walk under those radiant, cold northern lights – I’ve never seen the aurora borealis!’ – Somebody said once or wrote, once: ‘We’re all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God’s name with the wrong alphabet blocks!’
Tennessee Williams. Suddenly Last Summer. Penguin Modern Classics (electronic version), 2009. pp. 28-32.
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