Hector Monologue from Heartbreak House

From Heartbreak House by Bernard Shaw

male · defiant · 51 sec

Yes, but, damn it, I have the same feeling; and I can't have a baby. (LADY UTTERWORD: By deputy, Hector.) But I have children. All that is over and done with for me: and yet I too feel that this can't last. We sit here talking, and leave everything to Mangan and to chance and to the devil. Think of the powers of destruction that Mangan and his mutual admiration gang wield! It's madness: it's like giving a torpedo to a badly brought up child to play at earthquakes with. (MAZZINI: I know. I used often to think about that when I was young.) Think! What's the good of thinking about it? Why didn't you do something?

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