《Life Story》By：Tennessee Williams

[00:01.56]by Tennessee Williams [00:08.35]After you've been to bed together for the first time, [00:14.06]without the advantage or disadvantage of any prior acquaintance, [00:18.28]the other party very often says to you, [00:24.66]Tell me about yourself, I want to know all about you, [00:32.08]what's your story? And you think maybe they really and truly do [00:36.67]sincerely want to know your life story, and so you light up [00:40.99]a cigarette and begin to tell it to them, the two of you [00:45.32]lying together in completely relaxed positions [00:49.48]like a pair of rag dolls a bored child dropped on a bed. [00:55.59]You tell them your story, or as much of your story [00:59.82]as time or a fair degree of prudence allows, and they say, [01:04.95]Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, [01:11.32]each time a little more faintly, until the oh [01:15.90]is just an audible breath, and then of course [01:21.45]there's some interruption. Slow room service comes up [01:25.52]with a bowl of melting ice cubes, or one of you rises to pee [01:29.95]and gaze at himself with the mild astonishment in the bathroom mirror. [01:36.92]And then, the first thing you know, before you've had time [01:40.94]to pick up where you left off with your enthralling life story, [01:46.90]they're telling you their life story, exactly as they'd intended to all along, [01:51.03]and you're saying, Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, [01:59.93]each time a little more faintly, the vowel at last becoming [02:02.27]no more than an audible sigh, [02:08.94]as the elevator, halfway down the corridor and a turn to the left, [02:15.26]draws one last, long, deep breath of exhaustion [02:19.89]and stops breathing forever. Then? [02:24.01]Well, one of you falls asleep [02:29.67]and the other one does likewise with a lighted cigarette in his mouth, [02:35.11]and that's how people burn to death in hotel rooms.