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Larry Monologue from John Bull's Other Island

From John Bull's Other Island by Bernard Shaw

male · sarcastic · 1:01 min

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Breakfast: tea and bread-and-butter, with an occasional rasher, and an egg on special occasions: say on her birthday. Dinner in the middle of the day, one course and nothing else. In the evening, tea and bread-and-butter again. You compare her with your Englishwomen who wolf down from three to five meat meals a day; and naturally you find her a sylph. The difference is not a difference of type: it's the difference between the woman who eats not wisely but too well, and the woman who eats not wisely but too little. BROADBENT (furious). Larry: you--you--you disgust me. You are a damned fool. (He sits down angrily on the rustic seat, which sustains the shock with difficulty).

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30s · disgust · identity · power · food · cultural differences

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