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Well, it was nice of you to come home. You’re only an hour late and that ain’t very much. The supper don’t get very cold in an hour. An� of course the part about our havin� a lot of company tonight don’t matter.
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End:
There’s ten thousand like you layin� around the streets. You’ll be holdin� down the same job at the end of another twenty-five years--if you ain’t forgot how to add by that time.
For the complete monologue, see the video or the script edition cited here: Elmer Rice, The Adding Machine. Samuel French, 1956. pp.33-35.
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