Ridgeon Monologue from The Doctor's Dilemma

From The Doctor's Dilemma by Bernard Shaw

male · anguished · 54 sec

Dont laugh at me. I want your advice. (SIR PATRICK: Professional advice?) Yes. Theres something the matter with me. I dont know what it is. (SIR PATRICK: Neither do I. I suppose youve been sounded.) Yes, of course. Theres nothing wrong with any of the organs: nothing special, anyhow. But I have a curious aching: I dont know where: I cant localize it. Sometimes I think it's my heart: sometimes I suspect my spine. It doesnt exactly hurt me; but it unsettles me completely. I feel that something is going to happen. And there are other symptoms. Scraps of tunes come into my head that seem to me very pretty, though theyre quite commonplace.

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