_For_
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
I sometimes think the day will come when all the modern nations
will adore a sort of American god, a god who will have been a man
that lived on earth and about whom much will have been written in
the popular press; and images of this god will be set up in the
churches, not as the imagination of each painter may fancy him,
not floating on a Veronica kerchief, but established, fixed once
and for all by photography. Yes, I foresee a photographed god,
wearing spectacles.
On that day civilization will have reached its peak and there
will be steam-propelled gondolas in Venice.