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Most people readily exchange their nightly dreams for what passes as reality in the morning papers. Not Eugéne Ionesco. The celebrated playwright of the absurd prefers to dwell on his own private late late shows.
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Review of Fragments of a Journal in "The Forgetful Dreamer" in TIME magazine (6 September 1968)

 

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