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Vivivan Bearing, an accomplished professor of seventeenth-century
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I am not in isolation because I have cancer, because I have a tumor the size of a grapefruit. No. I am in isolation because I am being treated for cancer. My treatment imperils my health.
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In his poems, metaphysical quandaries are addressed, but never resolved. Ingenuity, virtuosity, and a vigorous intellect that jousts with the most exalted concepts: these are the tools of wit.
For full extended monologue, please refer to the script edition cited here: Margaret Edson, Wit, Faber & Faber, 1999, pp. 47-48.
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