So then I think we can agree... the life wasn't killing Sonja, AIDS was.
The life was wearing out, deteriorating and was very hard mentally and physically on presumably all who lived it. But if you catch a virus engaging in "the life" that can be caught by anyone living life, then it isn't the way you caught it that killed you it's the thing you caught.
But this is truly a pointless argument now. Sonja the character has AIDS in The Life, and that's very real and very sad and complicated. Correct me if I'm wrong, but in the original she does not have AIDS *in* the play we are seeing, rather we are told she is will eventually die of AIDS (when Jojo is telling us how each other dies), but her character wasn't written to be actively dying of AIDS, right? I'm not necessarily objecting to revising that, I'm just clarifying from the original's take. |
