“The tables have turned, yes, the tables have turned with a vengeance! You've come around to my old way of thinking and I to yours like two people exchanging a call on each other at the same time, and each one finding the other one gone out, the door locked against him and no one to answer the bell!”

—  Tennessee Williams , Summer and Smoke

Alma, Scene Eleven
Summer and Smoke (1948)

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