Chronology Entry
Year
1966
Text
Edward Albee, The Art of Theater No 4. In : the Paris review ; no 39 (1966). Interview by William Flanagan.
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4350/the-art-of-theater-no-4-edward-albee.
Albee : You know the old story about the—I think it's one of Aesop's fables, or perhaps not, or a Chinese story—about the very clever animal that saw a centipede that he didn't like. He said, "My god, it's amazing and marvelous how you walk with all those hundreds and hundreds of legs. How do you do it ? How do you get them all moving that way? " The centipede stopped and thought and said, "Well, I take the left front leg and then I—" and he thought about it for a while, and he couldn't walk.
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4350/the-art-of-theater-no-4-edward-albee.
Albee : You know the old story about the—I think it's one of Aesop's fables, or perhaps not, or a Chinese story—about the very clever animal that saw a centipede that he didn't like. He said, "My god, it's amazing and marvelous how you walk with all those hundreds and hundreds of legs. How do you do it ? How do you get them all moving that way? " The centipede stopped and thought and said, "Well, I take the left front leg and then I—" and he thought about it for a while, and he couldn't walk.
Mentioned People (1)
Albee, Edward
(Washington D.C. 1928-) : Dramatiker
[I did not get the permission from Albee to publish online the quotations of Mao Zedong from Box and Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung].
[I did not get the permission from Albee to publish online the quotations of Mao Zedong from Box and Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung].
Subjects
Literature : Occident : United States of America