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Act 1 Scene 1 Flashcards

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J: I feel ashamed to be your friend.

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You’re very hard on me.

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J: I’ve every reason to be.

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Listen, Jean. There are so few distractions in this town - I get so bored. I’m not made for the work I’m doing - every day at the office, eight hours a day - and only three weeks’ holiday a year. When Saturday night comes round I feel exhausted and so - you know how it is - just to relax…

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J: Willpower, my good man.

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But everybody hasn’t got as much willpower as you have. I just can’t get used to it. I just can’t get used to life.

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J: Or do you consider yourself some superior being?

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I don’t pretend to be…

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J: If you can remember.

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We were celebrating Auguste’s birthday, our friend Auguste -

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J: Nobody invited me to our friend Auguste’s birthday.

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I couldn’t refuse. It wouldn’t have been nice.

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J: Did I go there?

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Well, perhaps it was because you weren’t invited.

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A: Well, of all things.

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It certainly looked as if it was a rhinoceros. It made plenty of dust.

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P: Look after these gentlemen.

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What did I think of what?

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W: What are you drinking?

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Cognac.

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J: Well, what did you think about it?

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Well - nothing - it made a lot of dust.

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J: You’re incorrigible!

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I asked for mineral water. She’s made a mistake. (pause) The dust’s settled.

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J: I just can’t get over it!

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Yes, I can see you can’t. Well it was a rhinoceros - all right so it was a rhinoceros. It’s miles away by now - miles away.

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J: Put your hand in front of your mouth.

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Yais, yais it shouldn’t be allowed. It’s dangerous. I hadn’t realised. But don’t worry about it, it won’t get us here.

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J: What’s the council there for?

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Oh, excuse me. Perhaps the rhinoceros escaped from the zoo.

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J: You’re daydreaming.

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But I’m wide awake.

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J: Awake or asleep, it’s the same thing.

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But there is some difference.

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J: That’s not the point.

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But you just said being awake and being asleep were the same thing…

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J: …between dreaming awake and dreaming asleep.

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I do dream. Life is a dream.

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J: …escaped from the zoo-

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I only said - perhaps.

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J: …ages ago.

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Then perhaps it came from a circus.

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J: What circus are you talking about?

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I don’t know, some travelling circus.

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J: …since we were children.

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In that case, maybe it’s been hiding ever since in the surrounding swamps.

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J: …thick haze of alcohol.

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That’s very true. It seems to mount from my stomach.

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J: …the land is so arid.

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How do I know, then? Perhaps it’s been hiding under a stone. Or maybe it’s been nesting on some withered branch.

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J: You’re incapable of talking seriously

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Today yes, only today, because of - because of…

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J: …any other day.

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Oh, not quite as much.

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J: …not very inspired.

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I wasn’t trying to be… I never said it wasn’t’t dangerous to let a rhinoceros go racing about the town. I simply said I’d personally never considered the danger. It had never crossed my mind.

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J: You never consider anything.

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All right, I agree. A rhinoceros roaming about is not a good thing.

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J: It shouldn’t be allowed.

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I agree. It shouldn’t be allowed. It’s ridiculous. But it’s no reason for you and me to quarrel.
Why go on at me just because some wretched perissodactyl happens to pass by? A stupid quadruped not worth talking about. And ferocious into the bargain. And which has already disappeared - which doesn’t exist any longer.
Let’s talk about something else, Jean, please.
There are plenty of other subjects for discussion.
To you.

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J: You’re not to drink it.

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There’s no point in leaving it for the proprietor.

32
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J: I tell you.

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Very well. Oh, there’s Daisy.

33
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J: How clumsy you are!

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That’s Daist - I’m so sorry - I don’t want her to see me in this state.

34
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J: …that young girl?

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Oh, be quiet, please be quiet.

35
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J: …unpleasant person.

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I must apologise once more for -

36
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J: …you’re destroying yourself.

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I don’t like the taste of alcohol much. And yet if I don’t drink, I’m done fore; it’s as if I’m frightened, and so I drink not to be frightened any longer.

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J: …of what?

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I don’t know exactly. It’s a sort of anguish, difficult to describe. I feel out of place in life, among people, and so I take to drink. That calms me down, and relaxes me so I can forget.

38
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J: …from yourself.

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I’m so tired. I’ve been tired for years. It’s exhuasting to drag the weight of my own body about.

39
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J: …drinker’s gloom.

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I’m conscious of my body all the time, as if it were made of lead, or as if I were carrying another man around on my back. I can’t seem to get used to myself. I don’t even know if I am me. Then as soon as I take a drink, the lead slips away and I recognise myself, I become me again.

40
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OG: No harm done.

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You certainly are strong.

41
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L: Then it’s a cat.

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I’ve barely got the strength to go on living. Maybe I don’t even want to.

42
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L: …also true.

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Solitude seems to press me. And so does the company of other people.

43
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L: …not abused.

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Life is an abnormal business.

44
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J: …go on living.

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There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.

45
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J: …that doesn’t exist.

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I sometimes wonder if I exist myself.

46
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J: …somebody who does.

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Who?

47
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OG: I’m all ears.

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In any case, I think she’s already got her eye on someone.

48
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J: Oh, who?

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Dudard. An office colleague, qualified in law, with a big future in the firm - and in Daisy’s affections. I can’t hope to compete with him.

49
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L: ..the hypothesis.

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The chief thinks a lot of him. Whereas I’ve no future, I’ve no qualifications. I don’t stand a chance.

50
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J: …just like that?

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What else can I do?

51
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L: …it all depends.

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What can I do? I’ve nothing to put up a fight with.

52
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OG: …many aspects.

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Where can I find the weapons?

53
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J: …through your own will.

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What weapons?

54
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J: …up to the mark.

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How do I get myself up to the mark?

55
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OG: That’s not so easy.

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That’s not so easy.

56
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OG: …but not for me.

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It may be simple for you, but not for me.

57
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OG: I don’t see how.

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I really don’t see how.

58
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J: …put on a clean shirt.

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The laundry’s so expensive.

59
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L: Tell me.

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Then what do I do? Tell me.

60
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L: I’m listening.

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I’m listening.

61
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J: …without talent.

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I’ve got talent, me?

62
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OG: …the other two.

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I get so little spare time.

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J: …find time.

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It’s too late now.

64
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J: …free time constructively.

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How do you mean?

65
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J: …cultured man.

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You’re right!

66
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J: …Ionesco’s plays?

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Unfortunately no. I’ve only heard people talk about them.

67
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OG: …with six paws.

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It would be an excellent initiation into the artistic life of our times. (pause) Instead of drinking, I’ll develop my mind. I feel better already. My head already feels clearer!

68
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J: You see!

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This afternoon I’ll go to the museum. And I’ll book two seats for the theatre this evening. Will you come with me?

69
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OG: …Justice.

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I promise you, and I promise myself. WIll you come to the museum with me this afternoon?

70
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OG: …aspect of logic.

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But you will come with me to the theatre this evening.

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J: …for a drink.

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For a drink?

72
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OG: …catch mice.

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Ah, now it’s you that’s setting me a bad example. You’re going out drinking.

73
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J: …the same thing at all.

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Why isn’t it the same thing?

74
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L: …in its nature.

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I didn’t mean you were a drunkard. But why would it make me one any more than you, in a case like that?

75
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L: What did you say?

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What about me - what did you say?

76
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OG: Oh, a rhinoceros.

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Rhinoceros! In the opposite direction!

77
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D: Oh, a rhinoceros!

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Oh, Daisy!

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