It - and Poldek - had grasped me.
I guess I was one of the straws he bumped into in his flailing, and he grasped me really hard.
She took my plate, put her face right up to mine, grasped me by both shoulders and shook me, saying: "Stuart, you're almost finished.
When in June I actually met Guillermo, I stuck out my hand to shake his but he grasped me in a big bear hug and told me I had been the only name on his list for the role.
I was unlucky enough to find myself (GOD FORBID) lighting a cigarette near the entrance to Somerset House the other day, when a European menswear buyer lightly grasped me by the shoulder, dug his bony claws into my neck and sent me pirouetting away into the dirt.
However, rather than attempt to eliminate information and shy away from posting to the Internet, I have found that the opposite strategy, to have many hundreds of postings and references locatable on the Net, to be an effective strategy for deterring those who might wish to quickly grasp the "me" shown there.
That scenes like that must occur where I live in Texas with new citizens from Mexico, and yet have for the most part escaped my grasp, makes me wonder if New Yorkers lose sight of the same happening in their own midst.
Here Maud recalls being taken by her uncle from the nurses at the madhouse where her own mother supposedly gave birth: "Then one of them quickly puts a pair of scissors to my head, to take a curl of hair to keep inside a locket; and, the others seeing her do that, they seize the shears from her, or take up knives and scissors of their own, and pluck and grasp at me until my hair tears at the root.
Your story is sad and hard to grasp for me, too.
But Jonathan Kent's production, which has now transferred from Chichester, and which leaves me grasping for superlatives, has given the piece a fresh look without destroying its essential fabric.
