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- War by Luigi Pirandello (Storyboard by Andrew Wood)
- Are you alright, dear?
- Our only son is off to the front. He is only 20 years old. He was supposed to have six months before he went, and it's only been three.
- War by Luigi Pirandello (Storyboard by Andrew Wood)
- You should thank God that your son is only leaving now for the front. Mine has been sent there since the first day of the war. He has already come back twice wounded and been sent back again to the front.
- What about me? I have two sons and three nephews at the front.
- Maybe, but in our case it is our only son.
- War by Luigi Pirandello (Storyboard by Andrew Wood)
- What difference can it make? You may spoil your only son with excessive attentions, but you cannot love him more than you would all your other children if you had any. Paternal love is not like bread that can b broken into pieces and split amongst the children in equal shares. A father gives all his love to each one of his children without discrimination, whether it be one or ten, and if I am suffering now for my two sons, I am not suffering half ofr each of them but double.
- War by Luigi Pirandello (Storyboard by Andrew Wood)
- True, true. But suppose (of course we all hope it will never be your case) a father has two sons at the front and he loses one of them, there is still one left to console him.
- Yes. A son left to console him but also a son left for whom he must survive, while in the case of the father of an only son if the son dies the father can die too and put an end to his distress. Which of the two positions is the worse? Don't you see how my case would be worse than yours?
- War by Luigi Pirandello (Storyboard by Andrew Wood)
- Do we think of the Country when we give life to our children? Our sons are born because well, because they must be born and when they come to life they take our own life with them. We belong to them but they never belong to us.
- War by Luigi Pirandello (Storyboard by Andrew Wood)
- Then is your son really dead?
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