Guidepost #12 Mystery and Secret After you’ve done all the eleven guideposts in your preparation for your audition, then add to it what you don’t know.

Guidepost #12 Mystery and Secret No matter how much we know about the other person, there is always something going on . . . that we don’t know, but can only ponder.

Guidepost #12 Mystery and Secret No matter how we explain ourselves to someone else, no matter how open we are, there is always still something inexplicable, something hidden and unknown in us, too.

Guidepost #12 Mystery and Secret Add to your audition this wonderment about the other person. Add the wonderment about what’s going on inside of you.

Guidepost #12 Mystery and Secret Variations of a secret: You can have a secret that you really don’t want anyone to know. (usually, there’s an exception)

Guidepost #12 Mystery and Secret Variations of a secret: You can have a secret and want others to know you have a secret, even though you won’t tell them what it is.

Guidepost #12 Mystery and Secret Variations of a secret: You can have a secret that you want others to know you have, so they’ll ask . . . you’ll tell when sufficiently coaxed.

Guidepost #12 Mystery and Secret Nature of a Secret We have insatiable curiosity about other people’s secrets; we almost always want to know what they are.

Guidepost #12 Mystery and Secret Nature of a Secret We find ourselves mysterious. We cannot explain our own conduct at times.

“Two Silences” Harold Pinter There are two silences. One when no word is spoken. The other when perhaps a torrent of language is being employed.

“Two Silences” Harold Pinter This speech is speaking of a language locked beneath it. That is its continual reference. The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don’t hear.

“Two Silences” Harold Pinter It is a necessary avoidance, a violent, sly, anguished or mocking smoke screen which keeps the other in its place. When true silence falls we are still left with echo but are nearer nakedness.

“Two Silences” Harold Pinter One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.