Monologue

Artist Monologue from Altruism

From Altruism by Karl Ettlinger

male · defiant · 47 sec

Why not? We read a dozen suicides every day. Yet we go home and eat our dinner with undiminished relish. Why then sentimentalize over a drowning beggar? I wouldn't rescue a man who had fallen into the water much less one who had jumped in. Young Man. Sir—I despise you!

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