Broom Monologue from Lucky Pehr

From Lucky Pehr by August Strindberg

any · philosophical · 1:02 min

(Raps on floor and rustles its straws.) What--you chatter about life, old Pall, you who have seen only death? Life is black on one side and white on the other. To-day I'm only a broom, but yesterday I stood in the forest, so stout and trim, and wanted to be something great. They all want to be great, you see, so it happened as it happened! Now I think like this: What comes is best; since you couldn't be great, you may as well be something else; there is so much to choose from--One may of course be useful, and at worst one can content oneself with being good, and when one has not been given two legs to stand on, one must be happy anyhow and hop on one. (Broom goes bumping along and finally leans against altar.)

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