Start: Doctor Schultz: Throughout my jo...

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Doctor Schultz: Throughout my journey from Darmstadt, I spoke aloud to myself the optimistic incantations you suggested. “I am important to those who are important to me. “ And: “I am beloved by those whose love matters.” But they were empty in my mouth, and, at last, after hundreds of repetitions, the carriage driver begged me to be quiet.

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Learning they’d taken quarters in the church itself, I mounted the steps wrapped in my most impressive cloak, and lurked just outside the antechamber until I heard voices. I then pounded on the door, so that the echoing crashes might silence their conversation and better prepare them to witness their approaching doom …

For full extended monologue, please refer to the script edition cited here: Itamar Moses, Bach at Leipzig, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. pp.35-36.

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