An entire lifetime’s worth of defining details can be squeezed into two days of pressure, anticipation, and dread. An artist’s debut--the show that will determine whether the life to come will be a grand party or a particular grind--is only forty-eight hours away. The several scattered souls whose impending dreams and inevitable disappointments come to dramatic and disparate fruition during the course of Particles of Truth (2003) are imbued with all the bad luck, blessed coincidence, self-sabotage, and conscious grace that are common to strivers everywhere. Loners with lofty ambitions: Can they really come down to earth long enough to know love?