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so powerfully the characters have no choice but to stop and wonder. This begins

with Extreme Whether’s prologue on the hill, the most beautiful place the

characters know, when Jeanne returns to the family land after a long absence,

and the twins remember their youth and speak of the death of John’s wife. Later,

Jeanne’s plotting phone call with Frank is interrupted as Annie calls John and

Rebecca outside to see the starlit sky that subsumes within its grandeur all

mortal tensions below.

UNCLE: There’s a wilding inside. Rebecca! John!

JEANNE: Dear Frank, I have to hang up. It’s a madhouse.

UNCLE: A wilding inside that wills to connect to the wilding up there.

(The door slams.)

ANNIE: Papa! Rebecca!

JOHN: Whatever is it?

ANNIE: It is the heavens on fire.

JOHN: This is the cathedral dome.

JEANNE: Why, John, you’re a poet.

JOHN: Jeanne, here?

JEANNE: Here. Take my hand. Let us pretend we are children, again, and the

sky is as big as it was then. We used to stand with Father and he’d name each

constellation for us; funny, I’ve forgotten them all and yet there they are the same

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