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Jack is married to Judy the son-in-law of Howard.
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START: All human beings have a need to hear stories, and a rather pretentious fraud I knew in school even used to say that stories are actually “as necessary as food.” I hated that. But, do you know, it’s true?
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END: Now really, of course, that’s really the subject for a lengthy monograph, I can only just sketch it, you know, a superficial sketch, but it really is a good place to begin, because Howard’s capacity for contempt was so—well— in-credibly vast. In fact, he really had contempt for pretty much everybody on earth. Isn’t that absolutely wonderful?
_For full extended monologue, please refer to the script edition cited here: Wallace Shawn, The Designated Mourner, Theatre Communications Group, 2010, Electronic Edition, pp.12-13. _
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