The limpidness is certainly helped by the work of the two Connecticut artists currently on view.

It made possible "the enterprise involved in describing the Great Plan in all its limpidness, simplicity and unearthly beauty."

What this "Iguana" has, though, is a limpidness that lets you perceive the play's themes and patterns in ways that a more ambitious, aggressively acted production might not.

Actually, it's the music that exalts him: Penn does the intricate finger-work himself, while on the soundtrack, Howard Alden gives the solos a Reinhardt-like mix of limpidness and bite.

Simion writes that the book has as its fortes the "concreteness of images", a "gentle or not so gentle" irony, and, overall, "a limpidness reminding one about the clarity of deepest wells"; the book's universe, he argues, is "flat perhaps, but transparent".