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Where Is Mystery?
Where is the playwright within the play? Within the lead actor? Behind a rock? She has invested her entire being within her play. She is present in every detail. And yet the playwright is nowhere to be found. Where is the soul within the body? At the smallest wound in the body, the soul reels in pain. The slightest nuance of the soul is immediately expressed in the body. Grab a living body and you grab a soul. And yet nowhere within your body will any biologist ever find you, the person, and your will to choose to do what you do. The body and soul are...