Trebell Monologue from Waste: A Tragedy, In Four Acts

From Waste: A Tragedy, In Four Acts by Harley Granville-Barker

male · philosophical · 1:08 min

(Taking another path.) Shall I tell you something I believe? If we were left to choose, we should stand for ever deciding whether to start with the right foot or the left. We blunder into the best things in life. Then comes the test... have we faith enough to go on... to go through with the unknown thing? (AMY: Faith in what?) Our vitality. I don't give a fig for beauty, happiness, or brains. All I ask of myself is... can I pay Fate on demand? (AMY: Yes... in imagination. But I've got physical facts to face.) Very well then... let the meaning of them go. Look forward simply to a troublesome illness. In a little while you can go abroad quietly and wait patiently. We're not fools and we needn't find fools to trust in. Then come back to England....

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