START: Do you know what I thought--what...

The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?

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START: Do you know what I thought--what I thought after I’d read the letter, right to the end? [...] Well, I laughed, of course: a grim joke but an awfully funny one. “That Ross, I tell you, that Ross! You go too far, Ross.

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END: I f#&king laughed! Until it stopped; until the laughter stopped. Until it all came together--Ross’s letter and all the rest: that odd smell...the mistress’s perfume on you. And so I knew.

For full extended monologue, please refer to the script edition cited here: Edward Albee, “The Goat or, Who is Sylvia” in The Collected Plays of Edward Albee Vol. 3, Overlook Duckworth, 2008, p.580.

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