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In a faded boarding house, Billy Rice attempts to get some peace
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START: BILLY: Who is it?
(The girl knocks again.)
Who is it? Can't get any peace in this damned house.
GIRL: Is that you, Grandad?
BILLY: What?
GIRL: It's Jean.
[... …]
END: BILLY: He was a smart little boy himself. Used to dress them in sailor suits then. He was a pretty little boy. Funny how they all turn out.
(Pause, then softly, sincerely.)
I feel sorry for you people. You don't know what it's really like. You haven't lived, most of you. You've never known what it was like, you're all miserable really. You don't know what life can be like.
Osborne, John. Plays Two: the Entertainer, the Hotel in Amsterdam, West Of Suez and Time Present. London: Faber & Faber, 1998. pp.10-18.
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