At some point I suggested looking at this play I had written, and within a few hours we'd called up her boyfriend, my household brother, and we were all giggling and taking parts. A wonderful sermon I recently heard, commented on the many facets of each person's personality, and how, while one person may be able to love this facet of someone, and this person two or three facets, only God can love every single aspect of a person. This struck me and I realised that at times, we attempt to make ourselves a single face, and present this to the world - as though this were all we would present to Our Creator. But for the artist, whose very means of communication is public, those many facets are explored for not only Our Lord, but also for the World to see. Now, this is not a plug for voyeurism or exposition at all - there's a reason why one doesn't air dirty laundry on main street.
Dirty laundry is for the confessional.
But it does explain why the author of The Importance of Being Earnest could then turn around and write Salom . And, at the risk of too much egoism and pop-psychology, it explains why I chose something very like Earnest to begin with, and then turned around to work on the completely different, Salom . We begin searching for the play, however, in our Junior year. Of course, this was also compounded by the abysmal lack of decent one-acts out there. I had settled, finally, on a play by Anouilh, which was a comedy very much like French Butler .