What he would have liked, without admitting it, was for the whole world, forever under construction yet never constructed, to be like his own destroyed life.
full ed is here, and uber clear version here. I feel a sweetness towards incomplete construction. Like if I’m walking around miserably between point A to point B and the world feels flat with stasis of not being @ either of the points, sometimes in between I might pass by a building not yet completed and it fills me with fairytales. I don’t know why but I think it’s related to that platonov quote ^
“The Present” by Andrew Upton, adapted from Chekhov’s “Platonov”
Ethel Barrymore Theatre, 2016
Starring Cate Blanchett, Richard Roxburgh, Anna Bamford, Andrew Buchanan, David Downer, Eamon Farren, Martin Jacobs, Brandon McClelland, Jacqueline McKenzie, Marshall Napier, Susan Prior, Chris Ryan & Toby Schmitz