Sam Shepard Quote
[ELLA] Oh! You know what Wes?[WESLEY] What?[ELLA] That story your father used to tell about that eagle. You remember the whole thing?[WESLEY] Yeah.[ELLA] I remember he keeps coming back and swooping down on the shed roof and then flying off again. What else?[WESLEY] I don't know.[ELLA] You remember. What happens next?[WESLEY] A cat comes. [ELLA] That's right. A big tomcat comes. He jumps up on top of that roof to sniff around in all the entails or whatever it was.[WESLEY] And that eagle comes down and picks up that cat in his talons and carries him screaming off into the sky. [ELLA] And they fight. They fight like crazy in the middle of the sky. The cat's tearing his chest out, and the eagle's trying to drop him, but the cat won't let go because he knows if he falls he'll die.[WESLEY] And the eagle's being torn apart in midair. The eagle's trying to free himself from the cat, and the cat won't let go.[ELLA] And they come crashing down to earth. Both of them come crashing down. Like one whole thing.
[ELLA] Oh! You know what Wes?[WESLEY] What?[ELLA] That story your father used to tell about that eagle. You remember the whole thing?[WESLEY] Yeah.[ELLA] I remember he keeps coming back and swooping down on the shed roof and then flying off again. What else?[WESLEY] I don't know.[ELLA] You remember. What happens next?[WESLEY] A cat comes. [ELLA] That's right. A big tomcat comes. He jumps up on top of that roof to sniff around in all the entails or whatever it was.[WESLEY] And that eagle comes down and picks up that cat in his talons and carries him screaming off into the sky. [ELLA] And they fight. They fight like crazy in the middle of the sky. The cat's tearing his chest out, and the eagle's trying to drop him, but the cat won't let go because he knows if he falls he'll die.[WESLEY] And the eagle's being torn apart in midair. The eagle's trying to free himself from the cat, and the cat won't let go.[ELLA] And they come crashing down to earth. Both of them come crashing down. Like one whole thing.
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About Sam Shepard
Shepard's plays are known for their bleak, poetic, surrealist elements, black comedy, and rootless characters living on the outskirts of American society. His style evolved from the absurdism of his early off-off-Broadway work to the realism of later plays like Buried Child and Curse of the Starving Class.