The Inca Monologue from The Inca of Perusalem: An Almost Historical Comedietta

From The Inca of Perusalem: An Almost Historical Comedietta by Bernard Shaw

male · philosophical · 1:01 min

The best puns have all been made years ago: nothing remained but to achieve the worst. However, madam (he rises majestically; and she is about to rise also). No: I prefer a seated audience (she falls back into her seat at the imperious wave of his hand). So (he clicks his heels). Madam, I recognize my presumption in having sought the honor of your hand. As you say, I cannot afford it. Victorious as I am, I am hopelessly bankrupt; and the worst of it is, I am intelligent enough to know it. And I shall be beaten in consequence, because my most implacable enemy, though only a few months further away from bankruptcy than myself, has not a ray of intelligence, and will go on fighting until civilization is destroyed, unless I, out of sheer pity for the world, condescend to capitulate.

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