Saturday, May 23, 2015

Where does the quote "Everything's for a while. For a while is the stuff that dreams are made of, Baby!" appear in Camino Real?

In Block Twelve of Tennessee Williams’s play, Kilroy and Esmeralda have a long conversation that includes a great deal of flirting. He makes a number of general statements about her being in the category of “gipsies’s daughters.” She tells him about her longing to go to Acapulco and asks him to take her there. First he accuses her of having unrealistic desires, like her desire to become a movie star, and of being materialist—but he finally agrees to take her.
Their conversation veers toward the subject of sex. When Kilroy challenges her claim that he would be her first lover, using the euphemism of lifting her veil, Esmeralda modifies the statement to say that each one is the first one and chides him for being “cynical and sarcastic.” Insisting that he is sincere, Kilroy in turn questions her sincerity. She says that some gipsies’s daughters are sincere “for a while if their sweethearts are gentle.” It is at this point that the quoted line of dialogue occurs, and immediately after it, he lifts a corner of her veil.

KILROY: Would you believe I am sincere and gentle?
ESMERALDA: I would believe that you believe that you are for a while . . .
KILROY: Everything's for a while. For a while is the stuff that dreams are made of, Baby!
https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.170966/2015.170966.The-Rose-Tattoo-And-Camino-Real_djvu.txt

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