START: I won’t pretend to love you when...

Don Juan in Soho

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START: I won’t pretend to love you when I don’t. The honesty is a compliment. You’re the only person I don’t lie to. We live in an age of apology, don’t confuse it with authenticity.
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END: Oh, dear sweet Stan, Darwin got it wrong; man didn’t evolve, he just got nicer tools. From a lump of charcoal to the iPhone — whoosh — history. (Softly, intensely.) Where’s the poetry, hmm? Where’s the soul?

Patrick Marber, Don Juan in Soho. Faber & Faber, 2017.

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