"Nothing human is foreign to me." ---Jean Genet We read Jean Genet's The Balcony for text analysis and here are some of my thoughts. the operative word here is my thoughts... I was surprised that this came out of my head today. Theme: Validation of existence necessitates other's sacrifice of their own self to your self. Throughline: The control of control through the preservation of illusion and the perversion of reality and my Condensation of Flash's Thematic statement: The futility of compassion. Man, today was a good thinking day.