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Gilbert is stationed in a small village in Lincolnshire while working as a driver for the Royal Air Force. He is from Jamaica and one of the few black men in the village. He has just come across Arthur, Queenie’s father-in-law who suffers from shell shock. Gilbert takes Arthur home and meets Queenie for the first time. She is kind to him and he is immediately drawn to her. He reminds her of Michael Roberts, a Jamaican man she knew a couple of years earlier.
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START: GILBERT (to audience). Now I, like every Jamaican man, am adept at taking in the whole spectacle of a woman in the blink of an unsuspecting eye. It is hard to say whether this is a training or a natural-born gift.
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END: GILBERT (to audience). Man, that pie taste good. Partly because it came from her hand, partly because it was the first thing I had eaten in England that did not look like it had been eaten once before. Why the British boil up everything? How they built an empire when their army march on nothing but mush should be one of the wonders of the world.
Edmundson, Helen. Small Island. Nick Hern Books, electronic edition, 2019, pp.74-78
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