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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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