The Clerk Monologue from Augustus Does His Bit: A True-to-Life Farce

From Augustus Does His Bit: A True-to-Life Farce by Bernard Shaw

male · defiant · 52 sec

Well, what of it? We're at war now; and everything's changed. Besides, I should lose my job here if I stood drinking at the bar. I'm a respectable man and must buy my drink and take it home with me. And they won't serve me with less than a quart. If you'd told me before the war that I could get through a quart of whisky in a day, I shouldn't have believed you. That's the good of war: it brings out powers in a man that he never suspected himself capable of. You said so yourself in your speech last night.

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