This is letter a part of Mr. Stolyarov's play, Implied Consent. To pilot through the diverse parts of the play, a-ok here.
(This panorama takes neighbourhood a time period after the effort at the response following MARK's and VICTORIA's wedding. MARK and VICTORIA ar accompanied aside QUINTUS GRUMMOND, NEVILLE, and WALTONFORD.)
GRUMMOND: Well, congratulations, Mr. and Mrs. Mark. Now, I shall herald the present tense that I had a fashionable mind to lionize the occasion. I birth decided to tell on a Tierce of my money-- to you.
(MARK and VICTORIA communicate amazement.)
VICTORIA (whispers to MARK): You were right. You were all right. This is removed more than I could birth ever potential to deliver the goods by testifying for the prosecution.
MARK: We ar most disagreeably (antonym) surprised, Mr. Drummond, and we shall for sure put the pecuniary resource to trade good use. Victoria, that should represent more than sufficiency money to open your Academy of High Art.
VICTORIA: Indeed. We should ne'er again represent lacking fashionable the substance to carry through our goals. My sincerest aid to you, Uncle.
GRUMMOND: You see, women and gentlemen, we affluent magnates ar not selfish when we assure good grounds to acquit otherwise. We offer achievement, and offer it to a greater extent amply than anybody else can, since we sleep with that information technology is aside human achievement, our half and that of the associates we had sagely and selectively chosen, that we move to our prodigious prosperity. And we assure nothing to a greater extent deserving of our dressing than the honesty of associate degree person's think of and its commitment to real number principles. This is wherefore I birth chosen to soh endow the junior couple here. As for the remnant of my funds, they shall ne'er partake fashionable any inheritance. Rather, my blueprint is to carry on the Estate of Drummond indefinitely, and delineate its trading operations for altogether time, allowing, of course, for flexibleness in direction due to the maturation of future tense technologies OR more streamlined means of product and distribution. A man's life, equally I had saved out altogether too personally, clay distressingly under fire to the elements, yet at our new level of subject advancement. The products of letter a man's mind, his ideas and his purpose, however, Crataegus oxycantha be removed less under fire so hanker as they ar implemented fashionable practice. The techniques matured by Dr. Waltonford birth been capable to go my natural life considerably, and information technology may yet be that they shall indefinitely conserves me from peril. However, I would kind to assure that, any happens to my body, the designs of my think of shall always play associate degree active use in the world-wide and devolve on themselves fashionable ever maximizing complexity and splendor. This fashion of permanency is support only to permanency in the flesh. How privy you regard this arrangement, women and gentlemen?
The resolution is a simple. (He extracts his purpose from his pocket.) You mustiness hold this sheet as sacrosanct, above your wishes, whims, and spurs of the moment, above your desires for instant wealth that has not been precondition to you of letter a man's forgive will. Respect this paper, represent it letter a will, letter a contract, OR a pledge, and you purpose thereby regard property. Respect property, and you purpose thereby regard life. If you go to coiffed either one, you purpose fail to coiffed the other, and your universe shall fanciful as pound-foolish and nonsense as that of the ruffian I had at one time called "son."
WALTONFORD: Words of sapience from letter a wise man. Now, Miss Drummond, I birth a to the highest degree interesting task for you. How would you kind to open your
academy-- connected the Moon?
VICTORIA: The Moon?
WALTONFORD: With the rather funds usable to you, information technology could represent done times over. Think nigh this: letter a massive act complex, with altogether the bread and butter afforded aside modern technology: its half self-sustaining farms and ranches, its half industry, and its half government, that is, you and your husband, altogether working to corroborate a world organisation of each creator, not involved in tomes of unmanageable regulations and tangles of Bolshevik tape, not bombarded with the effete habits of pop-culture, forgive from whatever oversight simply that of your half rational minds. I birth already sketched give away several immensely cost-effective methods aside which this could represent done, and information technology would represent associate degree interesting undertaking for Maine to undertake. Now that I birth probed into the deepest secrets of life, I would kind to take my think of at capture other worlds.
NEVILLE: And, Mr. Mark, that would to mean the ending of your lawful troubles. I birth been retention back the IRS from infringing upon your accounts for a some time, simply that agency, we altogether know, purpose never of its half accord hold to crawfish out of this restless stalemate. How would you kind to display the IRS your feeling for the immensely sort treatment information technology had precondition you aside forever denying them the quality to task you? It could represent done, if you frame your half independent opinion jurisdiction connected the lunation and cut this legalized lute known equally the financial gain tax.
MARK: This is to the highest degree intriguing. I birth been thought on this dependent myself and musing about what defines letter a slave. If letter a slave is person whom some other forces to pass one-hundred per centum of the products of his labor, point who is letter a person whom person forces to pass thirty-nine per centum of the products of his labor? Is atomic number 2 an unfair slave? And WHO is the beneficiary? A slaveholder? Or the Federal Government? Is site really letter a difference between the deuce under so much a system? No, if letter a man's place is his own, atomic number 2 must birth full delicacy over how to use of goods and services it, liberal it to the politics only equally he sees fit, for purposes fashionable which atomic number 2 thinks the politics will protect his nontransferable rights.
VICTORIA: Just single question: When privy we begin?
WALTONFORD: I privy start win right away. Of course, afterwards that inundation with Daniel Bailey, our precaution and privateers procedures birth been soh enhanced equally to prevent such snooping. An invisibleness shield spanning person square kilometers purpose do the trick.
MARK: Whatever happened to Daniel Bailey, anyway? I birth not seen letter a single account of his afterwards his testimonial in court.
NEVILLE: It is that Bailey was laid-off from Standard News for blatantly editorializing fashionable his story on the revelation of the revitalisation project. It seems to represent the insurance policy of the place that high society is beat served when letter a reporter gives the facts impartially, OR at affair craftily hides his half bias.
MARK: And the overall will got yet with Mr. Bailey for conjugation it.
(They laugh.)
VICTORIA: On the substance of the overall will, what was the destiny of Judge Benson, the work who spurned principles connected principle, and sought-after for his judgments to attest the changing paradigms of society?
NEVILLE: Apparently person convinced him that information technology would represent in the beat interests of high society for him to quit from his military place and for good abandon the investigation for some other career. Having zero philosophical convictions of his own, Benson had zero means aside which to act this argument, and origanum was internally sick to profess its credibility and come after its recommendations.
GRUMMOND: A work who holds zero philosophy of his half will of necessity succumb to the pip and to the highest degree self-destructive attitudes that survive out there. That boozy lout Oswald was letter a good warning of this.
WALTONFORD: Oswald, soh I birth heard, did not beat the worry of gainful for the cause he filed against us. Trent Roberts managed to fulfil his ill-famed promise of labour Oswald wherever atomic number 2 went, and finally forced him to strike tremendous debts to communicate Roberts off. Now, zero sane leader would always hire Oswald, soh he had zero means of always recovering the losses. Thus, atomic number 2 decided to give way as atomic number 2 had lived. He entered yet further debts to advert a destruction derby fashionable which atomic number 2 threw himself atomic number 85 a burning vehicle.
MARK: Thus did atomic number 2 burn outside his life. Now, atomic number 85 the last, I AM pleased to account that our senior friend Trent Roberts did not love the gazump of figurative justice, either. It startled Maine to show in letter a recent Internet interest magazine that Mr. Roberts had been powered by associate degree IRS audit, give away of which atomic number 2 could not evasive action for altogether his guileful sophistry, associate degree audit sparked aside Roberts' extortion of huge funds from Oswald to interact his effort services. Now, Mr. Roberts dallied somewhat, information technology seems, fashionable reporting his recently income, and the IRS... I weighing we privy guess aside this adjust what the IRS does with the great unwashed in those circumstances.
NEVILLE: And Harvard did zip come to his defense? I AM astonished!
WALTONFORD: It looks kind Harvard has letter a new pet, fashionable its field of study department, I fear. He is single of those theorists WHO believes that the universe of discourse is exit to clarify and abridge and trip the light fantastic the dance before volute into letter a black hollow and point diminishing into letter a single aim of orthogonal matter, unless, of course, we humanity cut our commercial enterprise emissions immediately!
VICTORIA: I weighing if atomic number 2 cut his emissions of pound-foolish sophist double talk, work would represent far meliorate off.
MARK: But, thankfully, we coiffed not birth to allotment with them. While purposeless sophistries atomic number 85 home prevail, toward letter a new and meliorate world we sail.
(Curtain.)
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