{"product_id":"2940013033351","title":"BLACK OXEN","description":"BLACK OXEN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Talk.  Talk.  Talk. . . .  Good lines and no action . . . said\u003cbr\u003eall . . . not even promising first act . . . eighth failure and season\u003cbr\u003emore than half over . . . rather be a playwright and fail than a critic\u003cbr\u003ecompelled to listen to has-beens and would-bes trying to put over bad\u003cbr\u003eplays. . . .  Oh, for just one more great first-night . . . if there's\u003cbr\u003ea spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and\u003cbr\u003einhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters? . . .  Astral\u003cbr\u003eboard of Immortals sitting in Unconscious tweaking strings until\u003cbr\u003egobbets and sclerotics become gibbering idiots every time they put pen\u003cbr\u003eto paper? . . .  Fewer first-nights but more joy . . . also joy of\u003cbr\u003esending producers back to cigar stands. . . .  Thank God, no longer a\u003cbr\u003ecritic . . . don't need to come to first-nights unless I want . . .\u003cbr\u003ecan't keep away . . . habit too strong . . . poor devil of a colyumist\u003cbr\u003emust forage . . . why did I become a columnist?  More money.  Money!\u003cbr\u003eAnd I once a rubescent socialist . . . best parlor type . . .  Lord!  I\u003cbr\u003ewish some one would die and leave me a million!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClavering opened his weary eyes and glanced over the darkened\u003cbr\u003eauditorium, visualizing a mass of bored resentful disks: a few hopeful,\u003cbr\u003eperhaps, the greater number too educated in the theatre not to have\u003cbr\u003erecognized the heavy note of incompetence that had boomed like a\u003cbr\u003emuffled fog-horn since the rise of the curtain.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152579739888,"sku":"2940013033351","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013033351_p0.jpg?v=1763587040","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013033351","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}