David Leizer Monologue from Anathema: A Tragedy in Seven Scenes

From Anathema: A Tragedy in Seven Scenes by Leonid Andreyev

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What a comedy, Nullius! Yesterday she begged Heaven for a herring, and to-day a crown is not enough for her. To-morrow she will take the throne away from Satan and will sit upon it, Nullius, and she will sit firmly! What a comedy! Anathema has changed the expression of his face; he is stern and morose. (ANATHEMA: No, David Leizer, it is a tragedy.) 'Tis a comedy, Nullius, a comedy. Don't you hear the laughter of Satan in all this? (Pointing at the door.) You saw a corpse dancing--I see it every morning. (ANATHEMA: Is Naum so dangerously ill?) Dangerously ill? Three physicians, three serious gentlemen, examined him yesterday and told me quietly that in a month from now Naum will die, that he is already more than half a corpse. And every morning I see in this white marble parlor a corpse jumping to the tune of music--is it not a dream, Nullius? Is it not the laughter of Satan?

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