As a lad in Texas in the 1950s, Terrence McNally learned his catechism. But he may never have heard a commandment expressed more fervently than the prayer he has written in his new play, A Perfect Ganesh:
"Look! Attack things with your eyes. See them fiercely. Listen! Hear everything, ignore nothing. Smell! Breathe deeper than you've ever dared. Experience. Be. But, above all, remember. Carve adamantine letters in your brain: 'This I have seen and done and known.' Amen.
"No, above all, feel! Take my heart and do with it what you will."
That's fine, reckless advice for any person, any...
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