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| | The New York Times > Theater > Theater Reviews > Theater Review | 'Thom Pain (based on nothing)': ... |
 | | It's one of those treasured nights in the theater - treasured nights anywhere, for that matter - that can leave you both breathless with exhilaration and, depending on your sensitivity to meditations on the bleak and beautiful mysteries of human experience, in a puddle of tears. |
 | | Eno's voice, or rather the voice of Thom Pain, the ostensible narrator who is also, ostensibly, that dazed and changed little boy, is alternately lyrical and affectless, ecstatic and flat, sardonic and sincere. |
 | | To sum up the more or less indescribable: "Thom Pain" is at bottom a surreal meditation on the empty promises life makes, the way experience never lives up to the weird and awesome fact of being. |
| www.nytimes.com /2005/02/02/theater/reviews/02pain.html?ex=1265173200&en=3524c5bbc1d0f8aa&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland (991 words) |
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