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Shen Te, while disguised as her cousin Shui Ta, has just been tried
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Start: Yes, it’s me. I am Shui Ta and Shen Te. Your instruction once given me To be good and to live Ripped me in two like a lightning bolt.
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End: For your great plan, O Gods, I was too human and too small.
For full extended monologue, please refer to the script edition cited here: Brecht, Bertolt, The Good Person of Sichuan, Tr. Michael Hofmann, Methuen Drama, 1989, pp. 83.
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