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Martha and George are a middle-aged couple. Martha’s father is the college president, and George is a history professor. At the party, Martha met Nick and his wife, Honey. She invited them back to their house for drinks, to George’s dismay. Throughout the evening, Martha harshly mocked George, and the two exchanged passive-aggressive barbs. Nick, who got his master's degree at age 19, is a promising young biology professor with all the potential that George once had. George just mentioned that
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Start: Martha: George is not preoccupied with history…George is preoccupied with the history department. George is preoccupied with the history department because…
George: …because he is not the history department, but is only in the history department. We know, Martha…we went all through it while you were upstairs…getting up. There’s no need to go through it again.
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End: George: Now…I’ll hold your hand when it’s dark and you’re afraid of the bogeyman, and I’ll tote your gin bottles out after midnight, so no one’ll see…but I will not light your cigarette. And that, as they say, is that.
Citation: Edward Albee, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Dramatists Play Service, 2005, p. 26.
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