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Hester Swane is a jilted woman, much like the Medea of myth. Her
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Hester: Well, Carthage, ya think them were only idle threats I made? Ya think I can be flung in a bog hole like a bag of newborn pups? Let’s see how ya like this--Ya hear that sound? Them’s your cattle howlin’.
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End:
Joseph: I’ll be off, Hester, I just wanted to say hello.
Hester: Where are ya goin’?
Joseph: Stravagin’ the shadows. (And he’s gone.)
For full extended scene, please refer to the script edition cited here: Marina Carr, By the Bog of Cats. In Marina Carr: Plays 1. Faber and Faber, 1999, pp. 317-321.
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