Margaret Edson quotes:

Now is a time for, dare I say it, kindness. I thought being extremely smart would take care of it. But I see I have been found out.

"¦"¦, but as I am a scholar I feel obliged to document what it is like here, most of the time, between the dramatic climaxes. In truth it is like this: You cannot imagine how time can be so still. It hangs. It weighs, and yet there is so little of it. It goes so slowly and it is so scarce. If I was writing this scene it would last a full 15 minutes. I would lie here and you would sit there.

My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary.