Five O'clock Angel

From Letters of Tennessee Williams to Maria St. Just: 1948 -1982: Preface by Elia Kazan

1953      "A few last golden days in the Key West studio! It is so lovely! A sky-light with delicate bamboo curtain, palms, banana trees and fern-like Australian pines through the windows in all four walls, a Japanese lantern over my head with glass-pendants that tinkle in the constant trade-winds, a silver ice-bucket, gin, and oranges for pauses in occupation. Wonderful sounds, the palms and banana trees make, like ladies running barefooted in silk skirts downstairs, a instant flickering of light and shadow, a table that's five feet long theatrical posters stuck all over the lemon yellow walls, my own bathroom, a comfortable little bed, driftwood, a fan that belonged to Hart Crane, shells, solitude, peace! I would be content to stay right here forever, but the Horse is restless, He is rather moody, I think he longs to parade along the Via Veneto with Mr. Moon in Prima Sera! And hear the admirers say, Che brutto cane! Ah, che brutto cane!