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Four Plays
The Bald Soprano: Anti-play Scene: A middle class English interior, with English armchairs.
Tobacco Road
Lov Bensey trudged homeward through the deep white sand of the gully-washed tobacco road with a sack of winter turnips on his back.
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
The elevator continued its impossibly slow ascent.
Eugene Onegin
'My uncle, man of firm convictions... By falling gravely ill, he's won A due respect for his afflictions-- The only clever thing he's done. (James E. Falen translation)
Waiting for the Barbarians
I have never seen anything like it: two little discs of glass suspended in front of his eyes in loops of wire. Is he blind?
The Selfish Gene
Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.
Daniel Deronda
Was she beautiful or not beautiful? and what was the secret of form or expression which gave the dynamic quality to her glance?
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