Dr Pascoe Monologue from The Great Adventure: A Play of Fancy in Four Acts

From The Great Adventure: A Play of Fancy in Four Acts by Arnold Bennett

male · philosophical · 1:05 min

How--shyness? (CARVE: Just simple shyness. Shyness is a disease with the governor, a perfect disease.) But everyone's shy. The more experience I get the more convinced I am that we're all shy. Why, you were shy when you came to fetch me! (CARVE: Did you notice it?) Of course. And I was shy when I came in here. I was thinking to myself, "Now I'm going to see the great Ilam Carve actually in the flesh," and I was shy. You'd think my profession would have cured me of being shy, but not a bit. Nervous disease, of course! Ought to be treated as such. Almost universal. Besides, even if he is shy, your governor--even if he's a hundredfold shy, that's no reason for keeping out of England. Shyness is not one of those diseases you can cure by change of climate.

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