Nascent Drama

[The Dork Lord]

TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?

 

[The Dork Lord]

The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them.

 

[The Dork Lord]

Above all was the sense of hearing acute.

 

[The Dork Lord]

I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth.

 

[The Dork Lord]

I heard many things in hell.

 

[The Dork Lord]

How then am I mad?

 

[The Dork Lord]

Hearken! and observe how healthily, how calmly, I can tell you the whole story.

 

[The Dork Lord]

It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain, but, once conceived, it haunted me day and night.

 

[The Dork Lord]

Object there was none.

 

[The Dork Lord]

Passion there was none.

 

[The Dork Lord]

I loved the old man.

 

[The Dork Lord]

He had never wronged me.

 

[The Dork Lord]

He had never given me insult.

 

[The Dork Lord]

For his gold I had no desire.

 

[The Dork Lord]

I think it was his eye!

 

[The Dork Lord]

Yes, it was this!

 

[The Dork Lord]

One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture -- a pale blue eye with a film over it.

 

[The Dork Lord]

Whenever it fell upon me my blood ran cold, and so by degrees, very gradually, I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye for ever.

 

[The Dork Lord]

Now this is the point.

 

[The Dork Lord]

You fancy me mad.