ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I am grateful to all those persons who, by suggesting sources and authors unfamiliar to me, pointed me down glorious paths of discovery. Most prominent among them are Sally B. Owen of Judith’s Room Book Shop in New York City, Rachel Fletcher, Ann Harvey, Sally Cummings, and Lisa Juliano. For their help in bringing these monologues to life for me, I thank the dozens of students, particularly the members of Classical Matrix Laboratory, who spoke these speeches so earnestly and listened so attentively. For more material support I thank Edith Cummings, David Skolkin, Betty Binns, and Martin Lubin. I thank the parade of encouraging editors at Viking Penguin: Will Nixon, Laura Ross, Lisa Kaufman, Leslie Herzik, and Michael Millman. And I thank my wife, Judith Cummings, whose impeccable taste and fine eye for detail have contributed essential clarity and elegance.

I dedicate this book to my mother, Danuta Podworska Rudnicki, her mother, Maria Podworska, to all women in their ever blessed and infinite variety, and to the Goddess.

 

Stefan Rudnicki Hollywood, 1991