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O'Flaherty Monologue from O'Flaherty V.C.: A Recruiting Pamphlet

From O'Flaherty V.C.: A Recruiting Pamphlet by Bernard Shaw

male · sarcastic · 1:30 min

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Talk to Father Quinlan, is it! Do you know what Father Quinlan says to me this very morning? (SIR PEARCE: Oh, you've seen him already, have you? What did he say?) He says "You know, don't you," he says, "that it's your duty, as a Christian and a good son of the Holy Church, to love your enemies?" he says. "I know it's my juty as a soldier to kill them," I says. "That's right, Dinny," he says: "quite right. But," says he, "you can kill them and do them a good turn afterward to show your love for them" he says; "and it's your duty to have a mass said for the souls of the hundreds of Germans you say you killed," says he; "for many and many of them were Bavarians and good Catholics," he says. "Is it me that must pay for masses for the souls of the Boshes?" I says. "Let the King of England pay for them," I says; "for it was his quarrel and not mine."

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30s · anger · duty · war · religion · identity

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