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The Adding Machine

Mr. Zero Daisy Diana Dorothea Devore

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Daisy: Three ninety-eight. Forty-two cents. A dollar fifty. A dollar fifty. A dollar twenty-five. Two dollars. Thirty -nine cents. Twenty-seven fifty.

Zero: (petulantly) Speed it up a little, cancha?

Daisy: What’s the rush? To-morrer’s another day.

Zero: Aw, you make me sick.

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Daisy: We used to be so nice and friendly together when I first came here. You used to talk to me then.

Zero: Maybe she’ll die soon. I noticed she was coughin� this mornin�.

Daisy: You used to tell me all kinds o� things. You were goin� to show them all. Just the same, you’re still sittin� here.

For the complete scene, see the video or the script edition cited here: Elmer Rice, The Adding Machine. Samuel French, 1956. pp.9-17.

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