Pehr Monologue from Lucky Pehr

From Lucky Pehr by August Strindberg

male · anguished · 1:07 min

Curses on gold, friendship and women! Now I stand alone--poor, deserted--with a pair of long ears and without my magic ring! Had I known that life was so utterly ignoble, I should have stayed at home with the witch. Where shall I turn to now--without friends, without money, without house and home? Trouble awaits me at the door. Must I now, in all seriousness, go out in the world and work for the attainment of my every wish? If only I were not so alone! Yet, why not as well be alone, since there is no such thing as friendship, and everything is so false and empty? Damnation! (Enter Lisa.) (LISA: Don't curse, Pehr!) Lisa! You do not forsake me, although I forgot you in my prosperous days. (LISA: It is in our need that we find our friends.) Friends? A curse on friendship!

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