The Northern Ireland Peace Process
| FATHER, MOTHER and MURIEL at dinner. | |
| FATHER | Is Muriel going to eat her dinner? |
| MOTHER | Yes, eat up, Muriel. |
| FATHER | Have a special bite of daddy’s. |
| MOTHER | Yes, eat up, Muriel. |
| FATHER | Muriel, if you don’t eat your dinner you know what’s going to happen to you. |
| MOTHER | Yes, eat up, Muriel. |
Genetic Engineering
| ERIC and MADDY on their way to bed. | |
| MADDY | What was that? was that a bomb but far more likely |
| ERIC | no far more likely |
| MADDY | more likely a building some kind of construction |
| ERIC | demolition |
| MADDY | some kind of building |
| ERIC | some kind of building site or a road accident a crash but it’s the wrong kind of sound for that it was more |
| MADDY | what, more |
| ERIC | more whoosh in it not so much metal |
| MADDY | like a firework can be like that like a rocket |
| ERIC | yes but no it was bigger |
| MADDY | no but they can those public ones set off huge |
| ERIC | so anyway I don’t think it was a bomb anyway |
| MADDY | no I never thought it was a bomb. We could notice what time it is just to |
| ERIC | yes because you remember that time |
| MADDY | yes we said what was that but we didn’t think anything of it |
| ERIC | no I did think |
| MADDY | and later it had been ten past one and we said |
| ERIC | yes you said that must be what we heard because we’d just sat down to the soup |
| MADDY | yes we said we must have heard it because it was ten past one. |
| ERIC | Well it’s near enough half past eleven. |
| MADDY | I’m going to bed. |
| ERIC | Go on then, I’m coming. |
| MADDY | Yes but do come. You’ll sit. |
| ERIC | No I am coming. |
| MADDY | I’m not sure I’m sleepy anyway. |
| ERIC | I’m not going to have a bath I had a bath yesterday I don’t feel like a bath. |
| MADDY | No don’t have a bath have one in the morning. |
The Impact of Capitalism on the Former Soviet Union
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About the Author
CARYL CHURCHILL