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Can we talk about how Albee changed this punctuation in later editions. Like can we talk about the tonal shift here. On the one hand it does just have better comedic sensibility with a question mark. It is funny! But she loses the bluster. She hesitates. She hesitates.

from mel gussow’s edward albee: a singular journey

In the white heat of summer on the evening of her father's memorial, Martha and George struggle to break from the past. They don't mean for it to hurt, and they do. And it does.

They also cut the recondite line, unfortunately. she's smart she's clever she's verbose she's literally erudite

I understand why they didn't include this line in the movie, it's a little hard to deliver and she's already behaving erratically enough it doesn't add much except screen time but...what if they had

A chewed ear of corn….Martha….