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...agents had watched the red brick building on New York's Upper West Side that houses the Roman Catholic church, school and rectory of St. Gregory the Great. Toward the end of the afternoon they made their move. Inside, they prowled through the rectory, poking into closets ("Father Phil, are you there?"), peering under beds ("Father Dan, are you there?"). One passageway was locked shut, and an agent barked an order to break the door down. Minutes later, in a closet, they found Fugitive Priest Philip Berrigan, 46, and Poet Dave Eberhardt, 28, both overdue to begin federal prison...
...saved out of all the garbage of our lives," he writes. "What I see, am touched by (CAN HEAR) . . . wives, gardens, jobs, cement yards where cats pee, all my interminable artifacts . . . ALL are a poetry, & nothing moves (with any grace) pried apart from these things. There cannot be closet poetry. Unless the closet be wide...
...mystery in Boys. of course, is the character of Alan. Michael's straight friend from Georgetown days, who shows up unexpectedly at the birthday party Michael is throwing for his homosexual friends. Michael hopes that Alan is actually a "closet queer," so that his own guilt at being a homosexual will not be as strong...
...story." he cannot escape his conviction that misery is all he will ever know ("Show me a happy homosexual and I'll show you a gay corpse.") He places his final hopes on the possibility that even seemingly straight Alan is in reality a "closet queer," unhappy like himself. In the game and in the film, it is Alan's phone call that provides the final shock in a series of shattering revelations...
...Haemon at one point, Jocasta begs him to stop, calling out "Oedipus, I am your mother-obey me!" The irony, and the insight, of Sloan's version of the myth is that Oedipus has deeply known it all along, known that the skeleton in every man's closet is himself. So has Jocasta known it. So have the children. This is not, therefore, a discovery of the self but an unveiling of the rottenness of the self. Sloan seems to be saying that this is the way the world runs from day to day, with people living...