Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

MADWL

Martha's a devil with language

IWTPSPOMN/WYSHWWKTE

I want to… put some powder on my nose / Won't you show her where we keep the… euphemism?

JDSYMOAYKW

Just don't shoot your mouth off about… you-know-what

[tfbhbasbsacai]

takes from behind his back a short barrelled shotgun, and calmy aims it

[ctpriig]

closes the parasol, reinserts it into gun

[ciihm]OSIDAMDK

[cementing it in his mind] Our son is… dead… and… Martha doesn't know

WKLTGWPAQAICCTR

who keeps learning the games we play as quickly as I can change the rules

TAIWKTDETH

Truth and illusion. Who knows the difference, eh, Toots? Eh?

IRTS

I'M RUNNING THIS SHOW

Way on Albee

Albee still believes in the validity of reason - that things can be proved, or that events can be shown to have definite meanings

Way on Symbolism

the devaluation of languages and of images

Way on Contents

certain emptiness… no incident or image in it has reference to anything wider

Way on the Climax

pseudo-crisis