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In a post-apocalyptic world, the Old Man has waited forty years to
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Your Majesty, my wife and I have nothing more to ask of life. Our existence can come to an end in this apotheosis…thanks be to heaven who have granted us such long and peaceful years…My life has been filled to overflowing.
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As for me and my faithful helpmeet, after our long years of labor in behalf of the progress of humanity during which we fought the good fight, nothing remains but for us to withdraw…immediately, in order to make the supreme sacrifice which no one demands of us but which we will carry out even so
Eugene Ionesco, Plays: Volume 1. Calder and Boyars, pp.157-8.
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