Title: i don't understand my relationship with my own ass Artist: Wallace Shawn, Deborah Eisenberg, Larry Pine 10 plays

Wallace Shawn From the 2000 WNYC radio broadcast of THE DESIGNATED MOURNER directed by Andre Gregory. You can find the entire play here.

One day she said something to me like, “I don’t understand your relation to society. I don’t understand your relationship to the world you live in.”

“Can I tell you something?” I said snappily. “Do you know something? I don’t understand my relationship with my own ass. I mean I was standing naked in the bathroom this morning, and when I saw my ass in the mirror I just said to myself ‘What is that? What is that? And what does it have to do with me?’”

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2 years ago on May 04, 2011 at 01:30am

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I am a Manhattan-based playwright who writes letters to dead people.

"What, after all, is a clock? Without your grownup it is nothing. It is the grownup who winds it, who sets it back or ahead, who takes it to the watchmaker to be checked, cleaned, and when necessary repaired. Just as with the cuckoo that stops calling too soon, just as with upset saltcellars, spiders seen in the morning, black cats on the left, the oil portrait of Uncle that falls off the wall because the nail has come loose in the plaster, just as in a mirror, grownups see more in and behind a clock than any clock can justify."

Gunter Grass, The Tin Drum

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