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Asher Monologue from Dr. Jonathan

From Dr. Jonathan by Winston Churchill

male · anguished · 1:56 min

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Yes. I got another telegram early this morning saying that he is on his way home on a transport. (DR. JONATHAN: On his way home!) If he lives to arrive. I'll show you the wire. Apparently they can't make anything out of his condition, but think it's shell shock. This storm has been raging along the coast ever since nine o'clock, the wires are down, but I did manage to telephone to New York and get hold of Frye, the shell-shock specialist. In case George should land today, he'll meet him. (DR. JONATHAN: Frye is a good man.) George is hit by a shell and almost killed nearly a month ago, and not a word do I hear of it until I get that message in your house yesterday! Then comes this other telegram this morning. What's to be said about a government capable of such inefficiency? Of course the chances of his landing today are small, but I can't leave for New York until tonight because that same government sends a labour investigator here to pry into my affairs, and make a preliminary report. They're going to decide whether or not I shall keep my property or hand it over to them! And whom do they send? Not a business man, who's had practical experience with labour, but a professor out of some university,--a theorist!

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30s · anger · government inefficiency · war trauma · family · power

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