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Katherina is a young, alcoholic lesbian who is cynical and disenchanted. She receives unwelcome attention from Ippolite Ippopolitovich Popolitipov, a bureaucrat in his sixties who is not aware of her sexuality. He has got her a job as a security guard at the Pan-Soviet Archives for the Study of Cerebro-Cephalognomical Historico-Biological Materialism and visits her nightly. He yearns after and regularly attempts to finally seduce her, but has never been successful. Katherina suffers his visits
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Ippolite Ippopolitovich Popolitipov: You.
Katherina Serafima Gleb: What?
Ippolite Ippopolitovich Popolitipov: Have replaced myself in me.
Katherina Serafima Gleb: What?
Ippolite Ippopolitovich Popolitipov: The soul in me that on Judgment Day looked to ascend to bright Heaven has been smitten, obliterated, replaced in my by you.
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Ippolite Ippopolitovich Popolitipov: That night, that night, when I saw you that night, I was walking in the Arbat, you had fallen in the snow, sleeping in the gutter, dirty, drunk, rude, radiant: I was overwhelmed with lust, and then followed--love. Love. Love. Love. Love. (They are very close; he has almost won) Even in a corrupt and loveless world, love can be born.
Tony Kushner, 鈥淪lavs!鈥� in Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness. Theatre Communications Group, 1995. pp.123-135.
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