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Gretl is a married woman. She married into a Jewish family, although
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START: FRITZ: I’ve had a letter from your little Jewess.
GRETL: I’m going to go to hell for this. Catholic hell.
FRITZ: Do you want to know what it says?
GRETL: ‘Thank you, goodbye, look me up if you’re in Czernowicz.’
FRITZ: That’s incredible!
[... …]
END: GRETLGet dressed, Fritz, so you can find a cab for me.
FRITZIf he weren’t baptised he’d have to be a Rothschild to get invited.
GRETLPlease . . .
FRITZYou can’t leave yet, it won’t be dark for another hour.
She sighs, undecided.
There’s time to say goodbye.
Gretl pushes him away. She decides. She starts tearing her clothes off.
Tom Stoppard, Leopoldstadt. Grove Press, 2020. pp.43-45
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