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The Coast of Utopia: Salvage

Nicholas Chernyshvsky

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When I got married, I told my bride how I thought my life would be. ‘Revolution is only a matter of time,� I told her. ‘When it comes, I’ll have to take part. It could end in forced labor or the gallows.�

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...The only escape from the misery was to be a drunkard or a holy fool, of which we had many. I don’t like my life. And there are things now I won’t do for you.


For full extended monologue, please see the edition cited here: Stoppard, Tom. The Coast of Utopia: Salvage. Act 2, “July 1859.� 2002.

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