Millennium Approaches 1.7

Summary

Harper and Prior meat in a mutual hallucination. Prior is sitting at a table applying makeup when Harper enters. They make each other aware of their Threshholds of revelation. Prior tells Harper “ your husband’s a homo” (39), and Harper tells Prior that she can see that he is sick and tells him “deep inside you, there’s a part of you, the most inner part, entirely free of disease” (40). Harper vanishes from the scene and a voice calls for Prior from above. The voice tells Prior to “prepare the way the infinite descent A breath in air floating down” (41).

Works Cited

Kushner, Tony. Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1995.

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Millennium Approaches Act 1 Scene 8

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