Matricide: the Summer of Dramione

When I was about twenty-two, I read Elaine Scarry’s On Beauty and Being Just. Scarry says that we can recognize beauty by its consequences. “Beauty prompts a copy of itself.” You see a beautiful bird flash by and point it out to your husband, so he can see it too. You walk past a beautiful face, then turn to see it again. Beauty literally makes us creative. When we encounter beauty, we can’t help ourselves. We sketch, sing, dream . . . and write.