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Professor E.M. Ashford is Vivian Bearing’s
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You take this too lightly, Ms. Bearing. This is Metaphysical Poetry, not The Modern Novel. The standards of scholarship and critical reading which one would apply to any other text are simply insufficient.
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And death shall be no more, comma, Death thou shalt die. (As she recites this line, she makes a little gesture at the comma.)...
For full extended monologue, please refer to the clip or the script edition cited here: Margaret Edson, Wit, Faber & Faber, 1999, pp. 13-14.
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