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Look at the way you’re looking at me. I...

Jerry

Betrayal

Harold Pinter

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Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act II Scene IX
Time & Place
Robert and Emma’s house, their bedroom, 1968, winter
Length
Short
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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Look at the way you鈥檙e looking at me. I can鈥檛 wait for you, I鈥檓 bowled over, I鈥檓 totally knocked out, you dazzle me, you jewel, my jewel, I can鈥檛 ever sleep again, no, listen, it鈥檚 the truth, I won鈥檛 walk, I鈥檒l be a cripple, I鈥檒l descend, I鈥檒l diminish, into total paralysis, my life is in your hands, that鈥檚 what you鈥檙e banishing me to, a state of catatonia, do you know the state of catatonia? do you? do you? the state of鈥�. where the reigning prince is the prince of emptiness, the prince of absence, the prince of desolation. I love you.

Everyone knows. The world knows. It knows. But they鈥檒l never know, they鈥檙e in a different world. I adore you. I鈥檓 madly in love with you. I can鈥檛 believe that what anyone is at this moment saying has ever happened has never happened. Nothing has ever happened. Nothing. This is the only thing that has ever happened. You eyes kill me. I鈥檓 lost. You鈥檙e wonderful.

Pinter, Harold. Betrayal Faber & Faber, 2013, p.115.

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