Postmaster Monologue from The Inspector-General

From The Inspector-General by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

male · comedic · 43 sec

A most astonishing thing, ladies and gentlemen! The official whom we took to be an inspector-general is not an inspector-general. (ALL: How so? Not an inspector-general?) No, not a bit of it. I found it out from the letter. (GOVERNOR: What are you talking about? What are you talking about? What letter?) His own letter. They bring a letter to the postoffice, I glance at the address and I see Pochtamtskaya Street. I was struck dumb. "Well," I think to myself, "I suppose he found something wrong in the postoffice department and is informing the government." So I unsealed it.

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