semi-hysterical plays are set. There are three characters: The Passionate Man and two less passionate Companions
PASSIONATE MAN: It is the time when I must leave you both.
COMPANIONS: Why?
PASSSIONATE MAN: Because I must now fulfill my destiny.
COMPANIONS: Which is what?
PASSIONATE MAN: To be passionate.
COMPANIONS: Why is that your destiny in particular? Everybody has passions.
PASSIONATE MAN: Narrow souls I cannot abide.
There’s almost no good or evil
inside.
COMPANIONS (scornfully): That’s not even you! That’s Nietsche!
PASSIONATE MAN: But I wholeheartedly subscribe to it!
COMPANIONS: We feel we’ll be well rid of you!
PASSIONATE MAN: Everybody feels that way about the paroxysms of the passionate.
COMPANIONS: Good luck, Puffed-Up One!
PASSIONATE MAN: A Passionate man makes his own luck. Farewell, Triflers!
They take their leaves.
(curtain)
