William Saroyan: Self

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  William Saroyan : I'm William Saroyan. This play happens on a day made for daydreaming, so of course it's about marriage. Everyone knows such a day - uh, one or two every year. Everything on such a day seems both wide awake and fast asleep. The light on such a day is exceptionally good, too, so that all of a sudden it's easy to see faraway things like islands, church spires, the towers of tall buildings, snow on mountaintops, and so on. The air on such a day is good to breathe, too - even mistakes of a whole lifetime suddenly seem insignificant, and unworthy of regret. In a world in which perfection must always remain only a word, perfection itself seems possible at last - with a little luck. Such days are almost too good to be true for human beings; perhaps it's just as well that they don't happen too often. When they do happen, though, they seem to change everybody - for the better.