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To aid in the researching of this dissertation, Warner Bros.-Seven Arts kindly supplied a copy of the final script by Ernest Lehman1 on a loan basis. Contingent with the loan was the request that the script not be generally copied, though quoting for scholarly usage was permitted.
To judge Cinewoolf, 2 and particularly the information carried on its sound track, a completed film script would be useful. Based upon the Lehman script, viewings of Cinewoolf, and auditings of the recording of the complete screenplay,3 a complete set of changes from Edward Albee's original text4 has been collated. From the compilations included in this appendix, a workable edition of the screenplay, containing all the sound track dialogue, may be reconstructed around the Albee original as a basic script.
In this compilation, only dialogue is considered. Page references are to the Albee original text (See footnote four). Where confusion might arise, a line reference is given. Numbering of lines begins with the first printed line of text, including character headings and stage directions.
Stagwoolf original wording is listed first, followed by Cinewoolf wording. A "not equal" sign (‚) indicates a simple change. An "X" indicates that the lines quoted from Stagwoolf do not appear in Cinewoolf ("X's" will be placed at thc beginning and end of the deletion). An addition will be marked by a "plus" sign (+) ("+'s" will be placed at the beginning and end of the addition). At certain difficult sections, further statements may be incorporated to explain the changes.
ACT ONE
Page 3
Jesus . . . H. Chrlst . . . . ‚(laughter)
For God's sake, Martha, it's two o'clock in the . . . ‚
Martha, for God's sake, it's two o'clock in the morning.
Well, I'm sorry, but . . . . ‚ Well, it is.
Late. MARTHA: +No kidding+ What . . .
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. . . I know Xwhat . . .X
CHRIST'S SAKE ‚ cry sake
goddamn Bette ‚ damn Bette
goddamn Warner ‚ lousy old Warner
+Martha+ I can't
Page 5
Xand she trles to put her lipstick on, but she can't . . . and she gets it all over her face.X
XWell, that was probably before my time, butX
Page 6
XCan it! Just cut that out!X
puts ‚ sets
Page 7
+Well+ I'm tired goddamn ‚ damn
goddamn ‚ damn
XDo you want me to act like you?X
everybody ‚ everyone
Line 28: XAll right.X
Page 8
Make ‚ fix
What? ‚ Haven't you had enough?
make ‚ fix
what time it +is? MARTHA Yes.+ Who's
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I don't know XwhatX their name XisX, George
Xor something George.X
Well you did +GEORGE: Of all the asinine . . . Who are these people?+ XWill you give me my drink, please . . .X
math department +he's young and he's+ Xabout thirtyX
and good looking ‚ well-built (both times)
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It figures +MARTHA: What? GEORGE: Nothing, nothing+
Line 4; XandX
Line 7: XOhX
+Do+ you remember
XYesX I guess so XMarthaX
But why in God's name are they coming over here now? ‚ But why in hell do they have to come over here now?
Oh, Lord ‚ Oh, for God's sake!
XMay I have my drink please?X
It's after ‚ When it's XMorning, andX
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XI mean . X
All right, Well ‚ Okey
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XMarthaX
Xa real scream. You didn't like it, hunh?X
XMarthaX
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XI smiled, you know? . . . it was all rlght.X
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You don't even have ‚ You haven't even got
XHey, put some more ice in my drink, will you?X
XWell, two more's a ............(to the end of page)X
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XI'm six years younger than you are . . . I always have been and I always will be.X
Xoh, nowX
+No+ I don't want to kiss you +right now+ Martha
invited over +Where is this good-looking, well-built young man and his slim-hipped wife?+
want to kiss me?+ . . . George . . . George GEORGE: Yes, Love? MARTHA: Why don't you want to kiss me?+
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Jesus! ‚ Geeze!
XMarthaX +Oh+ I gave you the prize years ago +Martha+
that you +haven't won.+
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XI'11 fix you, youX
Page 18
get over there +and answer the door+
XJust leave the kid out of this.X
Page 19
XHe's mine as much as he is yours. I 'll talk about him if I want to.X
Xthough, even in this day and age? Isn't it nice that some people won'tX
SCREW YOU ‚ GODDAMN YOU
Page 20
Hi +Oh+ Hi, there
Yes . . . it is late, and . . . +I don't know+
Page 23
XWhat do you want to drink, hunh?X
XMartha's tastes . . . (to end of page)
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X(Beginning Oof page to:) .......... last dialogue line.X
Hey; Hey !
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XI really thought I'd bust a gut laughing. George didn't like itX
XLord, Martha`.......... that's all.X
XMartha didn't think I laughed loud enough.X
Xthat unless youX
Page 26
I rather appreciated it. +GEORGE: you What+ I means aside from enjoying lt +having fun+ I appreciated it . . . +every thing+ XYou know, when you're new at a place.X
Page 27
to know some of the men ‚ introduced around . . . the way he had us put up out at that Inn until our place ls ready . . . Why . . .
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XWell, I can . . . . conceivably, but . . . X
XusuallyX
Line 21: XMarthaX
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won't ‚ will
XI think . . . for a whileX
Line 29: XGeorgeX
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XOh, I don't knowX
XThat why you were drinking over at Parnassus . . . . Martha and me. So?X
Page 33
Glve me your glass ‚ Stay there
Page 34
I said, Xmusical beds is the facultyX +Oh+ Never mind. I wish you wouldn't go "sir" like that . . . Xnot with the question . . . . . disrespect intended.X
Page 35
XDoesn't this . . . gray quality suggest the fifties? Don't I sort of fade into backgrounds . . . get lost in the cigarette smoke? Hunh?X
XI haven't put on five pounds . . . . . It's not soft fleshX
XWell, yes . . . no . . . I meanX
Well, then . . . we ‚ Then we
Page 37
XDo you believeX
XNot that there is . . . (to end of page)X
Page 38
X(Beginning of page to:) . . . more . . . disappointing.X
Yes, . . you told me. ‚ Yes, I know
XI know I told you . . . I shall probably tell you several more times.X
Xand look fifty-fiveX
the Biology Department. +of course.+ XI did run the History Department for four year,, during the war . . . .(to end of page)X +(From page 37:) I'm really very mistrustful. I read somewhere that science-fiction is really not fiction at all . . . that you people are rearranging my genes so that everyone will be like everyone else. NICK: Oh now. (From page 66:) I suspect we will not have much music, much painting, but we will have a civilization of sublime young men very much like yourself. (From page 67:) Cultures and races will eventually vanish. The ants will take over the world . . . (From page 68:) NICK: You don't know much about science, do you? GEORGE: I know something about history. I know when I'm being threatened.
Page 39
XIsn't that amazing . . . . That's pretty irrational.X
XI'm not one of those . . . .Everything in proportion.X
XWhat are they doing . . . No . . . that's not fair.X
You have any ‚ You got any
Page 40
No kids, hunh? +What's the matter?+
XNot yet ........ Yes . . . certainly.X +Nothing+ We .
. . want
XAnd this . . . GomorrahX +And+ you think
XAnd every definition has its boundaries, eh? Well, it isn'tX
Page 41
Xa bad colleges I guess. I mean . . . it'll do. It isn't M.I.T. . . . it isn't U.C.L.A. . . . it isn't the Sorbonne . . . or Moscow U. either for that matter.X .
Xloyalty and devotion out of his staff. I was going to use another word. Martha's father expectsX his . . . staff . . . Xto cling to the walls of this place, like the ivy.X
XHe was buried, as many of us have been, and as many more of us will be, under the shrubbery around the chapel. It is said . . . and I have no reason to doubt it . . . that we make excellent fertilizer.X
be buried under the shrubbery ‚ fall anywhere.
XMartha's father has the staying power of one of those Micronesian tortoisesX
involved in this ‚ there someplace.
XHow many kids . . .(to end of page)X(this material returns on page 42)
Page 42
XYou asked me if I knew women . . . . Well, one of the things I do not know about them is what they talkX +I wonder what women talk+ about.
XWhat I mean is . . . what do you think they really talk about . . . or don't you care? NICK: Themselves, I would imagine.X
XDo you find women . . . puzzling? NICK: Well . . . yes and no. GEORGE: unh-hunh.X +(From page 41:) GEORGE: How many kids you going to have? NICK I . . . I don't know . . . My wife is . . . GEORGE: Slim-hipped.+ Oh! Well, here's one of youX at least. XShe'll be right down.X
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CHRIST'S SAKE ‚ cry sake
Page 44
Xuntil just a minute agoX
XWell, he must be quite a big . . . HONEY: Twenty-one . . . twenty-one tomorrowX Tomorrow's his birthday. +He will be sixteen.+
Page 46
goddamn ‚ damn
Page 47
She is his . . . right Xball, you . . . . guite right.X +arm. (From page 41:) I was going to use another word, but+
XThere you are, my pet. NICK: Well, nowX
Page 48
XWell, did you two . . . . (to end of page)X
Page 49
Hey, you must be quite a boy ‚ Say! you must be quite a guy
Page 50
XI think I'll make myself a drinkX
XThere's no need to go through it again. MARTHA: That's right, baby . . . keep it clean.X
Page 51
Xsinks, Martha, and it's a funny ladder . . . you can't reverse yourself . . . start back up once you're descending.X
Jesus ‚ Geeze
XDearX
Oh! Oh! ‚ Well
Page 53
XGeorge isn't too . . . . All right.X
Page 54
XOh, Lord, twenty years agoX
Page 55
Xlike I say, it was twenty years ago, andX
XIt was wartime and X
XDaddy's always admired . . . . you know?X
XSays the brain No kidding. AnywayX
so Daddy ‚ so he
XDaddy's a strong man . . . . Well, you know.X
Page 56
Yes . . . yes ‚ Unh hunh.
Xprobably something about not wanting to bloody-up his
meal ticket.X
XAnyway, George said he didn't want toX
So ‚ and
Xat the same timeX I let go +with a+ sort
XI hadn't meant it . . . honestly. Anyway . . . POW!X
Xand he stumbled back a few stepsX
Page 57
XIt's what he uses . . . . . . goddamn accident!X
POW!!! ‚ Bang!!!
Page 59
prick ‚ miserable . . .
XHere, let me show you . . . it goes back in, like this. NICK: That's damn clever.X
XI'm not finished.X +(From page 167:) GEORGE: Why, Martha, you've been nibbling away at the glass. XMARTHA: I have not.+
Page 60
XIs that Japanese? GEORGE: Probably.X
left ‚ right
Page 61
XjapX
everywhere in ‚ all over
Page 62
Xthe genes, or whatever . . . . No, Martha.X He's a biologist +you know.+
Page 63
XI suppose so . . . supposed to remember everything.X
XIt's less abstrust. GEORGE: Abstract. MARTHA: Abstruse! In the sense of recondite. Don't you tell me words. Biology's even better.X
They thought ‚ she thought
Page 64
XGeorgie boy . . . (to end of page.)
XPages 65 through 68X (Some of this material is on page 38)
Page 69
X(Beginning of page to:) . . . All right.X
Page 71
bugger has ‚ bugger's got
Page 72
XIn this worldX that I am +certain of anymore+ Xsure of . . . national boundaries, the level of the ocean, political allegiances, practical morality . . . none of these would I stake my stick on any moreX
XPage 73X (Some of this appears on page 75)
Page 74
X(Beginning of page to:) . . . . O.K.X (All this is shifted in order, to page 75)
like me. +Beautiful, beautiful, green eyes.+
Page 75
Green I +You bastard. (From page 73-74) GEORGE: Tut, tut, tut. MARTHA: Tut, tut yourself . . . you old floozie! HONEY: He's not a floozie . . . he can't be a floozie . . . you're a floozie. MARTHA: Now you watch yourself! HONEY: All right. I'd like a nipper of brandy, please. NICK: Honey, I think you've had enough, now . . . GEORGE: Nonsense. Everybody's ready, I think. HONEY: Nonsense. NICK: O.K.+ XHe has the liveliest . . . . . more hazel.X
Page 76
XWhere do you think you're going . . . . . (to end of page)X
XPages 77 through 80X
Page 81
X(Beginning of page to:) . . . bright-eyed, into the History Department.X +(From page 77:) You want to know why the S.O.B. hates my father?+ +When George came into the History Department about five hundred years ago, Daddy approved of him.+
Oh, that's nice ‚ I like that.
I couldn't work, ‚ so I married her +
Page 82
You know, Daddy was looking for someone to ‚ For a while Daddy thought George really had the stuff to+
Xsome timeX
Line 12: Just ‚ wait
retire, and so I ‚ retire, and so we both
XI'd thought you were telling ........ Well, I am.X
I wouldn't +go on with this+ if I were you.
Page 83
Xthe apple of our eye . . .X
Xit's going to make me angry . . . . I warn you.X
Do you really think we have to go through ‚ Do we really have to go throagh all this
XHe was the groom . . . he was going to be groomed. He'd take over some day.X
Page 85
XI mean, he'd be . . . . as you can imagine.X
Page 86
XI'm going to vomit.X
Jesus! +She'll be all right. NICK: You sure? MARTHA: I'll make some coffee.+ (This dialogue is suggested on page 89.)
ACT TWO
Page 89
I . . . Xguess . . . she's all right.X +(From end of speech:) I'm really vesy sorry.+ She . . . really shouldn't
XI'm really very sorry.X
She's making coffee . . . in the kitchen ‚ I think she's goint to make some coffee.
Page 90
XWell, you saw an example ........ (to end of page.)X
XPage 91 and 92X
Page 93
X(Beginning of page to:) ........ yeah.X
Well, it's true . . . She ‚ Well, it's true . . . Actually
up a lot. +GEORGE: The word is "often."+ Once she
Drink? ‚ May I?
Page 94
while ‚ when
New York ‚ town
Xfor this was during the Great Experiment . . . . to this gin mill,X
Page 95
assistant crook ‚ waiter
XThank you.X
Page 96
Martha! Martha! ‚ That's big Martha.
XI told you . . .X
Page 97
XThe saddest thing about men at's all. Buck up!X
Page 98
XWell, no . . . I don't imagine so . . . now.X
XI don't . . . make judgement,so there's no need, really, unless you . . .X
Page 100
XWell, I want to ........ Well, if you're going to . . .X
X. . . if you're going to start that kind of stuff again . . .X
XOh!X
Page 101
Xand we'll be back in. NICK: Oh . . .X
XMonstre! . . . . amuse yourselves . . . we'll be in.X
mess you made +in here+ George?
Page 102
XHave you? GEORGE: Hm?X
XmalleabilityX
Page 103
There always are. +There always are. Allow me.+ XNo, I'm sure . . . . (to end of page.)
XPages 104 and 105X
Page 106
XWhat is that? . . . . would make us cretins. GEORGE: So it would.X
Why? ‚ No.
Page 107
XWhat do you want to know ........ (To end of page.)X
X(Beginning of page to:) . . . O.K. . . . talk.X
XHe built hospitals . . . (to end of page).X
Page 109
XtBeginning of page to:) No. Her own.X
Page 110
XA peach pie, with some for the township of New Carthage, some for the colleges some for Martha's daddy, and just this much for Martha.X
XAnd maybe it is . . . . (to end of page.)X
Page 111
X(Beginning of page to:) . . . O.K.X
Xnot because I'm interested in your terrible lifehood,X
Xand pertinentX threat to Xmy lifehoodX +me.+
XYes . . . we are. Sneaky NICK: Yup.X
Page 112
Xplay around for a while,X find all the weak spots, +GEORGE: Like me.+ Xshore 'em up, but with my own name plate on 'em . . .X become sort of a
Xstart some special groups for myselfX
take over all the courses you want to, and get as much of the young elite together in the gymnasium as you like ‚ shove aside all the older men you can find
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XThe way to a man's heart ........ to end of page.)X
Page 114
X(Beginnlng of page to:) . . . bunch of geese.X
XI'll bet you're right. GEORGE: Well, I am.X +NICK: Yeah. GEORGE: The way to a man's heart . . . the wide, inviting avenue to his job . . . is through his wife, and don't you forget it.+ And I'll bet your wife's Xthe biggest goose in the gangle, isn't sheX +got the widest most inviting avenue on the whole damn campus . . . I mean~+ her father +being+ president, and all.
XWell now,X
in a corner and mount her like a goddam dog, eh? ‚ into the bushes.
Page 116
XAll right!NICK: Hey, Honey.X
XO.K.X
Hm? ‚ What?
Page 117
You heard me! +Honey!+
of principle . . . +NICK: Honey . . . !+ Xyou endeavor to make communicable sense out of natural order, morality out of the unnatural disorder of man's mindX
XI suppose there's justice to it, after all the years . . . . Up yours.X
XWhat? Oh . . . (to end of page).
+HONEY: It wasn't too bad, dear . . . really . . . NICK: Put this on. HONEY: I'm not cold, but I an a little-- NICK: Just put it on. We're leaving. MARTHA: You're what? NICK: Leaving. Going home. GEORGE: Well! MARTHA: Wait a minute . . . what happened here? What have you been up to? GEORGE: Everything; pet. HONEY: Oh dear, I think I better sit down. NICK: Never mind that now. Come on, Honey . . . GEORGE: I'll go get the car . NICK: You don't have to. We'll call a cab. GEORGE: I insist! MARTHA: George! GEORGE: Yes, love? MARTHA: Just what the hell do you think you're doing? GEORGE: Now let me see . . . I think what I'm doing is . . . I'm getting the car . . . To take our little guests . . . Home.
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X(Beginning of page to:) . . . touching.X
For what, Martha? ‚ It wasn't my fault. The road should've been straight.
+Not that.+ For making Xthe little ladyX +her+ throw up, Xwhat else?X
Page 119
XAnd the doctors say . . . . Get me a drink.X
Page 120
Xhe used to.X
nothing more complicated than that ‚ because
Xat him all the time, with your liquor breath on him, and your hands all over his . . . .X
Page 121
Liar! +Liar!+
XYeah:X
XI would have been perfectly . . . . (to end of page.)X
Page 122
XtBeginning of page to:) . . . got to do it right. Honey: Yes.X +Oh, I wish I had some brandy.+
Good for you. +HONEY: It steadies me so.+
XWell, if you think . . . . (to end of page. )X
Page 123
X(Beginning of page to:) . . . I do, dear.
Ha? ‚ Say
XYou two men . . .(to end of page)X
+MARTHA: Did he tell you about that? Come on. He must have said something. NICK: Well . . . MARTHA: (From page 124) Didn't he tell you how he would have amounted to something if it hadn't been for Daddy . . . that kind of crap? GEORGE: (From page 123, re-ordered) Actually what we did is, we sort of "danced around" a little . . .+
Page 124
XHoney.X
Xheavens!X
Xhow he would have amounted . . . . And he didn't run on about X (Part of this is transferred to page 123)
XgoddamX
XA book? No. X
Page 125
X(Beginning of page to:) . . . All right, Love.X +HONEY: Oh, lookX Dancing! Why don't we dance? I'd love some dancing. NICK: Honey . . . +we're almost home.+
XI would! I'd love some dancing. NICK: Honey . . .X
XAll right . . .! For heaven's sake . . . we'll have some dancing.X
Page 126
XOh, I'm so glad . . .X (Honey and Martha's next lines are reversed.)
XGee.X (both)
+MARTHA: With the right man . . . yeah . . .+ HONEY: I dance like the wind. XYeah? . . . up her partner.X +MARTHA: Stop the car, George. GEORGE: MarthaX MARTHA: We're going dancing . . . GEORGE: For heaven's sake! MARTHA: Did you hear me? GEORGE; Whatever love wants. HONEY: I dance like the wind.
Will you put a record on and shut up? ‚ Well, put one on, will you.
Certainly ‚ yes
Page 127
Honey . . . ‚ You'll get sick again.
Page 128
XCut it out, George! GEORGE: What?X
XYou son of a . . . .X
You ‚ It. (both times line 16)
XHoney . . Oh you did, hunh?X +GEORGE: I thought you'd like it . . . MARTHA: Give me some change. GEORGE: What? MARTHA: I said, give me some changs! NICK: Honey . . . HONEY: Stop that!+ You're
Page 129
XWell, why don't . . . . lead the band.X
XMartha's going to put on some rhythm she understands . . . Sacre du Printemps, maybe.X
XOooooohhhhh! GEORGE: Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.X
Angel-tits ‚ angel-boobs
Page 130
XHm? Oh.X
Page 131
famlllar dance . . .+monkey-nipples+ they both know it .
. . .
XDon't be shy . . . . old as they come.X
Aren't they cute? (moved to after "Does it?)
XYeah . . .X
Well, what do you know + I don't think he trusts me.
You have ugly talents, Martha. (Replaces "Hideous gifts.")
Page 135
XGo on now! NICK: What do you think you're doing, hunh?X
XgoddamX
ass ‚ keister
XWhy, the idea! . . . . withdraw that manuscript . . . .X
Page 136
Christ ‚ Cry
Page 138
O.K. now . . . that's enough. +BARTENDER: All right. What's the trouble in here? GEORGE: Nothing . . . no trouble . . . Just . . . playing a game . . . BARTENDER: Well, we're . . . un . . . closing. GEORGE: One more round . . . same for everybody, hunh? Just give us one more round, and we'll be on our merry way . . . Good, good, thanks.+ Well! That's one game
Page 139
I think maybe . . . . ‚ Haven't you had enough?
Let's see now ‚ Now let me see
Xwhat else can we do?X
mount her like a goddamn dog? ‚ get her off in the bushes?
Page 140
I've got It! I'll tell you what game we'll play. We're done ‚ Okay! I know what we'll do. Now, we're through
Host +for+ this round, anyway X. . . we're done with that . . .X
play . . . . We'll play a ‚ do. How about a little
Page 141
Yeah ‚ No
XmaybeX
XnowX
X. . . oh, no . . . we haven't.X
I think maybe ‚ And anyway, we have to be
XGeorgeX
+Now+ I wonder . . . .
Xwell, not really indiscreet, because Martha is naive, at heart . . . anyway, MarthaX told you XallX
XHunh?X
Line 23: But ‚ Anyway
Line 29: She ‚ Martha you ‚ us all
Xis she didn't tell us all aboutX
Page 142
No ‚ Ah
Xbut it can be read as straight, cozy proseX
Xand they got to know . . . . just a minute!X
played yours ‚ had your game.
XGeorge, for heaven's sake . . X
Xbased on Christ and all those girlsX
Page 143
X. . . and he died eventually, Mousie's pa . . . in the early part of the book.X XNo . I . . . I don't think you'd better.X
Page 144
Look+ there's no
need ‚ reason
one of the things ‚ what
understand ‚ figure out
sort ‚ something
+Now look+ this isn't fair
Page 145
Xa pragmatic extension of the big dream.X
XMaybeX
Page 148
XGod Almighty. GEORGE: The patterns of history.X
Page 149
XYou Just pick up the pieces where you can . . .X you XjustX
Xyou scramble back up on your feet. MARTHA: Go look after your wife. GEORGE: Yeah . . . go pick up the pieces andX +MARTHA: better put your wife in the car. NICK: No thanks, I've had enough rides for tonight. We'll walk home. GEORGE: That's right. You go+
Page 150
Probably ‚ No doubt
+No+ I mean
XNo doubt . . . you hadn't set up.X
+Well ,+ I 'm glad
liked ‚ enjoyed.
Page 151
XYeah . . . pigmy hunting! GEORGE: Pigmy!X
You're really a bastard. ‚ You really are a bastard.
XI? I? . . . You make me sick.X
XperfectlyX
XI mean, you can make your own rules . . .X
Page 152
XawayX
But +let+ somebody
Xsort of X
XWhyX Oh, for God's sake ‚ Come on
XYou can sit there, in that chair of yours,X you can
there ‚ around
apart ‚ to pieces
Page 153
For twenty-three years! ‚ year after year
XYou'reX (both times line 15)
Page 154
Hunh ‚ aren't you
Page 155
XI'm numbed enough . . . and I don't mean by liquor, though maybe that's been part of the process--a gradual, over-the-years going to sleep of the brain cells--X
be able to ‚ so that I can
to you ‚ anymore
when ‚ if
Xto you.X
XI bring everything down to reflex response,X so +that+ I don't really hear you, which is +about+
Xover the past couple of centuries--or however long it's been I've lived in this house with youX makes it ‚ is
Xnow, and you've started playing variations on your own distortions, ands as a result . . .X
XHaveX (final word, page 155)
Page 156
Xyou ever listened to the way you talk?X
Twenty-three years ‚ A thousand
Will you ‚ You'll
You know what's ‚ Do you want to know what's
arrangement. +Boy+ You can
Page 157
Xyou knowX
(Reverse:) this is life . . , the hell with it.
XI'm not going to tryX
maybe ‚ yeah.
But that's past ‚ But it's past
Page 158
I want to remember ‚ I'd like to admit.
+Yeah+ Well, maybe
XbabyX
XIt went snap tonight at Daddy's party . . . . and I watched youX +I looked at you tonight,+ and you weren't there! XAndX it snapped.
Page 159
Xwell . . . she's . . . resting ........ (to end of page)
XPages 160 through 173X
Page 174
X(Beginning of page to:) . . . to the swing of events, must . . . eventually . . . fall."X
XI was asleep, and the bells . . . . (to end of page.)X
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XBoom!X
XIt was the sound . . . . back to sleep . . .X
XThere was no one there.X
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You don't know what's been going on around here while you been having your snoozette, do you. ‚ Look up there! Listen to them!
XI should have known . . . the whole . . . . What are you talking about?X
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XDon't worry, baby . . . . But don't worry, baby, Hey!X
XYou going to lie down . . . stuck in your mouth,X
XWhere's who? There's nobody here, baby.X
XWell, you just crawl over to the bar and make yourself one . X
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on in there ‚ on up there
XYou hear all that? You know what's going on in there?X
XThere are a couple of people in there . . . . you don't want children?X
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XYou don't want to know . . . . want to know who rang.X
Your husband is +up there.+
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Somebody ‚ It was
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XOh, listen to thatX
Can you hear ‚ Do you hear
ACT THREE
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(Most of MARTHA'S speech is cut. The following are the only lines not cut:) MARTHA: Hey! . . . . George. Where the hell is everybody!!! . . . I'll give you bastards five to come out from where you're hiding! . . . Clink! . . . Clink! . . . Clink! Clink! Clink! Clink!
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floor Xagain,X the tiles
. . . we'll never get the deposit back that way . . . . ‚ maybe she'd be more comfortable in the tub.
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weighs ‚ sets
I beg your pardon ‚ What did you say?
Xand maybe . . . . . . . (to end of page.)X
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Xlong time. Oh,X
XI pass my life in crummy, totally pointless infidelities . . . . All the gorgeous lunk-heads. Poor babies.X
The . . . the what-do-you-call-it? . . . uh . . . the lawn mower, or something? ‚ What? The gym instructor, or some thing.
XI'd forgotten him . . . . George, of course. Uh . . .X
Xwho under-X
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X(From beginning of page to:) . . . bite so there's blood:X
XNICK: Sad . . . . George and Martha:X
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XI know when a man's had his back broken; I can see that. MARTHA: Can you!X
You're damn right ‚ All right now (From two lines later)
XAll rlght, now . . .....really all you know?X
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XHah! NICK: Just . . . . Polntless.X
XCan't you get the latch up, either?X
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chase me around the kitchen and up the goddamn stairs ‚ come back here with me
XLook, boy; once . . . . Now git!X
Christ's sake ‚ cry sake
Christ ‚ Chri--
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moonlight ‚ all the way to Daddy's greenhouse just+ to pick for Martha
Xtonight, and for our sonny-boy tomorrow, for his birfday X
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was a moon ‚ is a moon
XThere couldn't have been a moon ........ (to end of page.)X
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X(Beginning of page to:) from heaven X
There is no +goddamn+ moon
Xthe moon may very well have gone down . . .X
XThe moon does not . . . . came back up.X
XIgnorance! . . . ignorant!X
Xdrinking on deck with a correspondent who was talking about Roosevelt,X
Xconsidered it, you know what I mean?X
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XBah! NICK: Damn you.X
XYou were never in . . . you side with herX
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XHunh? Here we go round the mulberry bush, hunh?X
here we go round the mulberry bush! ‚ snap went the dragons.
Xsnap go the dragons.X
XMake up your mind. Either way . . . .X
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goddamn ‚ damn
If you're a houseboy . . . Everything ‚ Which are you, baby, houseboy or stud?
Oh for God's +sake+
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XYou don't want to wreck things, do you? Hunh?X
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Please ‚ No
quite a night for yourself ‚ you've had yourself quite a
night
you've got ‚ there is
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Jesus. ‚ Good god. Jesus God . . . . ‚ Oh for cry
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XI've decided I don't . . . . . (end of page.)X
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X(Beginning of page to:) . . . . Awww, that was nice.X +Now,+ I think
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XDo you mind if I . . . ? GEORGE: No, no; you go right ahead.X
Why love, I was ‚ Why love, I am
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XIsn't Martha something . . . Just . . . don't.X
XNow bunney and . . . . Yeah; sure. GEORGE: AndX
about him, too ‚ about our bouncey boy (From line 25.)
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the bathroom door down ‚ down the bathroom door
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twenty . . . one ‚ sixteen
Xand I was young . . (to end of page.)X
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