How could he have written songs of such glorious joy when he was so tormented inside?" Previous Westside Connections series — all concerts take place at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica — have included a season with poets and another with a medley of creative people.
Where, I wonder, is the connection to the tormented heroes of his major operas, Vincent van Gogh among them?
The tormented have forgotten their torments, their tormentors their tormenting.
But the most tormented character may be Detective Loki (Jake Gyllenhaal), whose connection to the kidnapping is professional rather than personal.
A more jarring note occurs in connection with Ludwig Wittgenstein, yet another tormented genius who looms large in the novel.
These provide the off-kilter frame for the magical visions of Lili and of Paul's friend Jacquot, not to mention the colorful puppets (by Robert Smythe) who provide Paul with his only connection to the world outside his tormented psyche.
She's tormented, and wary.
Peche's tormented state is illuminating.
He remembers every tormented detail.
Thomas is a tormented man.
