Последний отзыв
Удивительная книга. Как никогда актуальна сегодня. Язык и стиль автора настолько тонок, лёгок и изыскан, что легко поведёт читателя в мир героев, кото...
Далее
По всем вопросам обращайтесь на: info@litportal.ru
(©) 2003-2024.
✖
More Portmanteau Plays
Автор
Год написания книги
2018
Настройки чтения
Размер шрифта
Высота строк
Поля
Good-bye, boy; God bless you.
[The two clasp hands and Nathaniel goes.
JONATHAN
He believes in me....
[He watches Nathaniel with wide eyes, then calls to Hank.
Hank! Hank!
HANK
What you want?
JONATHAN
He didn't know me!
HANK
Who didn't know you?
[Hank lies down.
JONATHAN
Uncle Nathaniel.... He just passed by.... But, Hank, he believed in me! He believed I'd make good.
HANK
Say, what's the matter with you today?
JONATHAN
I'm goin' to leave you, Hank.
HANK
Huh?
JONATHAN
Old pal, I'm going to leave you forever. You've stuck by me—
HANK
Sure, I've stuck by you.
[Makes himself comfortable.
Ain't you saved me a heap o' trouble?
JONATHAN
But I'm going now, Hank. Good-bye. I'm going to the green hill far away.
[He starts away leaving Hank alone and asleep. The lights fade out.
Soft music is heard through the darkness and slowly the outline of the green hill appears close at hand. Jonathan outlined against the sky appears at the edge of the hill, climbing with difficulty.
NATHANIEL (The voice is heard with the music)
Nine ninety-nine—one thousand. You're nearly there, Boy.
JONATHAN
Nine hundred and ninety-nine—one thousand—I'm almost there.
NATHANIEL (far away)
A thousand and one—a thousand and two—
JONATHAN
A thousand and one, a thousand and two—I am here!
NATHANIEL (far away)
The world is here.
JONATHAN (as though addressing the world)
Listen.... I ran away. I ran away. I was fourteen. I saw visions of great things. I heard voices of the past and the future. I wanted to tell what I saw and heard.... Oh, you who made sport of my dreams, I am here at the top of the world! Uncle John, I have heard things you will never hear, and I have seen things you will never see.
JOHN (far away)
But your back's broken.
JONATHAN
Oh, Susan—Susan Sample—see—see. I told you I wasn't a beggar. See—see—Jonathan stands at the top of the world!
SUSAN (faintly)
But your back's broken.
JONATHAN
[The two clasp hands and Nathaniel goes.
JONATHAN
He believes in me....
[He watches Nathaniel with wide eyes, then calls to Hank.
Hank! Hank!
HANK
What you want?
JONATHAN
He didn't know me!
HANK
Who didn't know you?
[Hank lies down.
JONATHAN
Uncle Nathaniel.... He just passed by.... But, Hank, he believed in me! He believed I'd make good.
HANK
Say, what's the matter with you today?
JONATHAN
I'm goin' to leave you, Hank.
HANK
Huh?
JONATHAN
Old pal, I'm going to leave you forever. You've stuck by me—
HANK
Sure, I've stuck by you.
[Makes himself comfortable.
Ain't you saved me a heap o' trouble?
JONATHAN
But I'm going now, Hank. Good-bye. I'm going to the green hill far away.
[He starts away leaving Hank alone and asleep. The lights fade out.
Soft music is heard through the darkness and slowly the outline of the green hill appears close at hand. Jonathan outlined against the sky appears at the edge of the hill, climbing with difficulty.
NATHANIEL (The voice is heard with the music)
Nine ninety-nine—one thousand. You're nearly there, Boy.
JONATHAN
Nine hundred and ninety-nine—one thousand—I'm almost there.
NATHANIEL (far away)
A thousand and one—a thousand and two—
JONATHAN
A thousand and one, a thousand and two—I am here!
NATHANIEL (far away)
The world is here.
JONATHAN (as though addressing the world)
Listen.... I ran away. I ran away. I was fourteen. I saw visions of great things. I heard voices of the past and the future. I wanted to tell what I saw and heard.... Oh, you who made sport of my dreams, I am here at the top of the world! Uncle John, I have heard things you will never hear, and I have seen things you will never see.
JOHN (far away)
But your back's broken.
JONATHAN
Oh, Susan—Susan Sample—see—see. I told you I wasn't a beggar. See—see—Jonathan stands at the top of the world!
SUSAN (faintly)
But your back's broken.
JONATHAN
Другие электронные книги автора Stuart Walker
Последний отзыв
Удивительная книга. Как никогда актуальна сегодня. Язык и стиль автора настолько тонок, лёгок и изыскан, что легко поведёт читателя в мир героев, кото...
Далее