Brokenbrow

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Excerpt from Brokenbrow: A TragedyIndicates the kitchen-living room of a workman's house. Maggie Brokenbrow is pottering about at the range. Eugene Brokenbrow comes in. He sits down right hand lies before him on the table. He is clutching some small object at which he stares incessantly. (Brokenbrow must speak without any fluency or pathos, his speech is that of simple folk - laboured and toneless.)*Maggie: Did mother give you the coals?Eugene is silent.Gene! I'm asking you: did mother give you the coals? Answer me. You'd think his wits are wandering. Gene! Do say something. What's to become of us? Not a bit of wood, not a bit of coal. Gene! Do you want me to burn the bedstead to keep the range going?*Gene: The little creature. Such lovely colours. Its heart is beating so hard I can feel it with my hands. Sitting in the dark. Now it'll always be in the dark.*Maggie: What have you got there, Gene?*Gene: And you can just stand there by the range! I wonder the saucepan doesn't drop out of your hands! Can't you feel a great darkness coming over you? A creature, a little live thing, might be you or me. So pleased with its little self Chirrup, chirrup - you know how they chirrup away in the mornings? Pleased to see the light again, they are - tweet tweet! But now - but now! When I walked in she had just put out its eyes with a red-hot knitting needle... (he groans aloud).*Maggie: What? Who?*Gene: Your mother. Your own mother. Fancy a mother putting out the eyes of a goldfinch because the paper said that blind birds sing better! I chucked her coals on the floor, I did, and the ten bob she gave me. Maggie, I punished your mother the same as you'd punish a child that was cruel to animals. But then I let her go, because I seemed to remember - it was horrible - didn't I use to do the same thing and think nothing of it? The feelings of an animal, well, what about it? Wring its neck, cut its throat, put a bullet through it - who cares?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.