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you of anything! I’ll never convince you that I’m talented or that what I write is any good! All my life I’ve tried to avoid writing to please the critics or the experts, I’ve just focussed on the play I had to write, concentrated on what I thought I had to say, and refused to think about what so-and-so might say about this sentence or that speech … but all along I knew I was kidding myself, that there was always one person I wanted to please, one person I needed to convince, like when I wrote my very first play … You committed the most violent act I’ve ever seen anyone commit— you destroyed the only manuscript of an author’s first play. You burned my first play, page by page, with your lighter, with no scruples, no regrets, with the clear conscience of a man who’s convinced he’s right! You destroyed my play because you were convinced you were right, just like I was convinced I was right to denounce you in my play. I could have rewritten it, I knew it by heart, it was a short play, probably not very good, but I chose to drop it, and to keep that blow intact, like a burn that never heals, and over the years I realized that it had become my motor. I’d never be able to forgive you for committing that act, and as long as forgiveness was impossible, I’d have a reason to write. I wanted every play I wrote, every bit of my work, every successful production to be a blow to you, as painful, as brutal as the one you dealt me before my career had even begun. You wanted to crush me in the bud, you failed, and now I was going to try to crush you, slowly but surely, bit by bit, success after success after success! I had my first taste of revenge ten years ago, do you remember? No, even if your brain was still working you wouldn’t remember, because you were so caught up in your little triumph, so intoxicated by your fifteen minutes of fame that you didn’t notice a thing. There was a TV show back then where five nights in a row, they’d invite a celebrity to come meet people from his past—relatives, teachers, classmates … When my turn came, when they invited me, I saw an opportunity to stage a double-revenge, and I succeeded.Конец ознакомительного фрагмента.
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