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A monologue from the play by Slawomir Mrozek (Translated by Ralph Manheim & Teresa Dzieduscycka)
Stromil (Polish man in his 50s)
[Unfortunately?] You don’t know what you’re saying. If you’d lived in those days, you’d know how much we’ve done for you.
You have no idea what the world was like then. Can you imagine how much courage it took to dance the tango?
Do you realize that in those days there were hardly any fallen women? That the only recognized style of painting was naturalism?
That the theater was utterly bourgeois? Stifling. Insufferable.
You couldn’t even put your elbows down on the dinner table! I can still remember a youth demonstration on that very issue.
Why, it wasn’t until after 1900 that the boldest, the most advanced spirits stopped giving up their seats to elderly people.
No, we didn’t spare ourselves in our struggle for these rights and if you today can push your grandmother around, its to us your thanks are due.
You simply can’t imagine how much you owe us. To think how we struggled to give you this freedom which you now despise!
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