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Martha and George are a middle-aged couple. Martha鈥檚 father is the college president, and George is a history professor. At the party, Martha met Nick and his wife, Honey. She invited them back to their house for drinks, to George鈥檚 dismay. Throughout the evening, Martha harshly mocked George, and the two exchanged passive-aggressive barbs. Nick, who got his master's degree at age 19, is a promising young biology professor with all the potential that George once had. George just mentioned that
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Start: Martha: George is not preoccupied with history鈥eorge is preoccupied with the history department. George is preoccupied with the history department because鈥�
George: 鈥ecause he is not the history department, but is only in the history department. We know, Martha鈥e went all through it while you were upstairs鈥etting up. There鈥檚 no need to go through it again.
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End: George: Now鈥鈥檒l hold your hand when it鈥檚 dark and you鈥檙e afraid of the bogeyman, and I鈥檒l tote your gin bottles out after midnight, so no one鈥檒l see鈥ut I will not light your cigarette. And that, as they say, is that.
Citation: Edward Albee, Who鈥檚 Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Dramatists Play Service, 2005, p. 26.
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