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2018
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JONATHAN (moaning)
Good-bye.... Jonathan.
JOHN
We'd better take him in the house.
JONATHAN
My mother was the best woman—
NATHANIEL
He'd better stay here until the doctor comes.
[John exits.
JONATHAN
All on a summer's day—
[All the time Nathaniel has been passing his hands over Jonathan.
HANK
He's out of his head, ain't he?
NATHANIEL
Perhaps, but sometimes one's heart speaks in a delirium.
HANK
He acts like his back's broke.
NATHANIEL
My God—his back!
[Touches the boy's back.
Jonathan winces with pain.
JONATHAN
My back's broken, Hank.
HANK
Listen, he's saying my name. We wuz pals, sure nuff.
JONATHAN
My back's broken, Hank.
Curtain
ACT II
Jonathan Builds a Fear
Six years have elapsed since Act I as years elapse in a boy's imaginings.
Throughout this act the characters are disclosed without reason as in a dream; and the movement of the act represents four terrors of a delirium—anxious effort to make oneself known, a feeling of fetters, climbing and a sudden fall.
[Before the curtain rises the voices of Jonathan, Hank, Nathaniel and John are heard, muffled and far away.
HANK
He fell on the rocks out there.
NATHANIEL
Put him over here.
JOHN
What was he doing?
HANK
He was—
NATHANIEL
This is no time for questions, John. Call a doctor.
JONATHAN
Good-bye.... Jonathan.
JOHN
We'd better take him in the house.
JONATHAN
My mother was the best woman—
Good-bye.... Jonathan.
JOHN
We'd better take him in the house.
JONATHAN
My mother was the best woman—
NATHANIEL
He'd better stay here until the doctor comes.
[John exits.
JONATHAN
All on a summer's day—
[All the time Nathaniel has been passing his hands over Jonathan.
HANK
He's out of his head, ain't he?
NATHANIEL
Perhaps, but sometimes one's heart speaks in a delirium.
HANK
He acts like his back's broke.
NATHANIEL
My God—his back!
[Touches the boy's back.
Jonathan winces with pain.
JONATHAN
My back's broken, Hank.
HANK
Listen, he's saying my name. We wuz pals, sure nuff.
JONATHAN
My back's broken, Hank.
Curtain
ACT II
Jonathan Builds a Fear
Six years have elapsed since Act I as years elapse in a boy's imaginings.
Throughout this act the characters are disclosed without reason as in a dream; and the movement of the act represents four terrors of a delirium—anxious effort to make oneself known, a feeling of fetters, climbing and a sudden fall.
[Before the curtain rises the voices of Jonathan, Hank, Nathaniel and John are heard, muffled and far away.
HANK
He fell on the rocks out there.
NATHANIEL
Put him over here.
JOHN
What was he doing?
HANK
He was—
NATHANIEL
This is no time for questions, John. Call a doctor.
JONATHAN
Good-bye.... Jonathan.
JOHN
We'd better take him in the house.
JONATHAN
My mother was the best woman—
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