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Mr. Zero has been adding figures at a department store for 25 years,
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Start:
Well, it was nice of you to come home. You’re only an hour late and that ain’t very much. The supper don’t get very cold in an hour. An’ of course the part about our havin’ a lot of company tonight don’t matter.
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End:
There’s ten thousand like you layin’ around the streets. You’ll be holdin’ down the same job at the end of another twenty-five years--if you ain’t forgot how to add by that time.
For the complete monologue, see the video or the script edition cited here: Elmer Rice, The Adding Machine. Samuel French, 1956. pp.33-35.
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