Throughout the play, Dad has been staunchly conservative, morally
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Voice? (No answer.) Voice? (No answer.) Voices? Voice? Typical, nothing. Left here on my own, with only the images of Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln. Hello? Hello? I’m living the lie, I know it.
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But it is given to us only for minutes, and we spend the rest of our lives paying for those few moments. Love moves through three stages: attraction, desire, need. The third stage is the place I cannot go.
For the full monologue, refer to the clips or script edition cited here: Steve Martin. “WASP,” in Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays. Grove Press, 1996. pp. 148-149.
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