"For the sins of the world are really only its partialities, its incompletions,

and these are what sufferings must atone for. A wall that has been omitted

from a house because, the stones were exhausted, a room in a house left

unfurnished because, the householder's funds were not sufficient - these sorts

of incompletions are usually covered up or glossed over by some kind of

makeshift arrangement. The nature of man is full of such makeshift

arrangements, devised by himself to cover his incompletions. He feels a part

of himself to be like a missing wall or a room left unfurnished and he tries as

well as he can to make up for it. The use of imagination, resorting to dreams

or the loftier purpose of art, is a mask he devises to cover his incompletion."

Tennessee Williams, Desire and the Black Masseur

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