"Sadie Thompson" in Altogether - Rain (1934)
Tell Her About It.
Song lyrics, An Innocent Man (1983)
Theodric : A Domestic Tale; and Other Poems (1825), To the Rainbow
Source: Audition (1997), Chapter Eight, Kai
Context: The young people nowadays – men and women, amateurs and pros – generally fall into one of two categories: either they don’t know what it is that’s most important to them, or they know but don’t have the power to go after it. But this girl’s different. She knows what’s most important to her and she knows how to get it, but she doesn’t let on what it is. I’m pretty sure it’s not money, or success, or a normal happy life, or a strong man, or some weird religion, but that’s about all I can tell you. She’s like smoke:you think you’re seeing her clearly enough, but when you reach for her there’s nothing there. That’s a sort of strength, I suppose. But it makes her hard to figure out.
“Sometimes if you polish too much, you rub off the shine.”
Static Line interview, 1998
