Maurice Monologue from There Are Crimes and Crimes

From There Are Crimes and Crimes by August Strindberg

male · defiant · 1:14 min

Now I heard! Well--you know, I suppose that this is the day that will settle my fate? My play is on for tonight, and there is every chance that it will succeed--or fail. (JEANNE: I'll make sure of success by praying for you.) Thank you. If it doesn't help, it can at least do no harm--Look over there, down there in the valley, where the haze is thickest: there lies Paris. Today Paris doesn't know who Maurice is, but it is going to know within twenty-four hours. The haze, which has kept me obscured for thirty years, will vanish before my breath, and I shall become visible, I shall assume definite shape and begin to be somebody. My enemies--which means all who would like to do what I have done--will be writhing in pains that shall be my pleasures, for they will be suffering all that I have suffered. (JEANNE: Don't talk that way, don't!) But that's the way it is.

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