Relative Monologue from Lucky Pehr

From Lucky Pehr by August Strindberg

male · defiant · 47 sec

Oh, it is unprecedented--read for yourself! (SHOEMAKER: I'm too agitated to read; you read it.) Then listen to what the scoundrel writes: "A quarter of a century has hardly elapsed since Burgomaster Schulze gladdened this community with weighty improvements as regards its street paving, by giving us in place of the old sand-ground rough cobble stones." Do you hear! Do you hear! (SHOEMAKER: Yes, I hear. But that was not very alarming.) Not alarming! Doesn't he call him Burgomaster Schulze? One does not say burgomaster of a dead man--one says Our Illustrious--Does not the wretch write about rough cobble stones? Does he not attempt with that to undermine his worth?

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