Playwright Portrait, David Cale, Excerpt from Floyd and Clea Under the Western Sky

The Playwright David Cale, 2006

FLOYD AND CLEA UNDER THE WESTERN SKY

Floyd

“I wonder how different our lives would be if we knew how long they were gonna last. If we knew we had, say, 21,900 days, which is what sixty years amounts to. Or if say we knew we only had 10,093 of those days, would it lend our lives a greater urgency? I think somewhere in the back of our heads we think we’re never gonna die, we’re gonna be the one that lives forever.”