JOHN: Now listen here to the anatomy lecture! This upper story's the brain which is hungry for something called truth and doesn't get much but keeps on feeling hungry! This middle's the belly which is hungry for food. This part down here is the sex which is hungry for love because it is sometimes lonesome. I've fed all three, as much of all three as I could or as much as I wanted- You've fed none- nothing. Well- maybe your belly a little- watery subsistence- But love or truth, nothing but- nothing but hand-me-down notions! -attitudes! -poses! Now you can go. The anatomy lecture is over.

ALMA: So that is your high conception of human desires. What you have here is not the anatomy of a beast, but a man. And I- I reject your opinion of where love is, and the kind of truth you believe the brain to be seeking! -There is something not shown on the chart.

JOHN: You mean the part that Alma is Spanish for, do you?

ALMA: Yes, that's not shown on the anatomy chart! But it's there, just the same, yes, there! Somewhere, not seen, but there.

-Tennessee Williams, Summer and Smoke

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