Friday, May 19, 2006

George and Martha

 

George and Martha

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GEORGE: Once... once, when I was sailing past Majorca, drinking on deck with a correspondent who was talking about Roosevelt, the moon went down, thought about it for a little... considered it, you know what I mean,... and then, POP, came up again. Just like that.

MARTHA: That is not true! That is such a lie!

GEORGE: You must not call everything a lie, Martha. (To NICK) Must she?

NICK: Hell, I don't know when you people are lying, or what.

MARTHA: You're damned right!

GEORGE: You're not supposed to.

                                                     - Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf