Start: So I’d done my job better than I...
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For decades, Gallimard and Song Liling carried on
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So I’d done my job better than I had a right to expect. Well, give him some credit, too. He’s right--I was in a fix when I arrived in Paris. I walked from the airport into town, then I located, by blind groping, the Chinatown district
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But finally, at my urging Rene got a job as a courier, handling sensitive documents. He'd photograph them for me, and I'd pass them on to the Chinese embassy.
For the full monologue, see the script edition cited here: David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly, Penguin Books, 1988, pp.80-81.
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