The Normal Heart and the Destiny of Me by Larry Kramer & Tony Kushner

Author:Larry Kramer & Tony Kushner [Kramer, Larry & Kushner, Tony]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Drama, Gay
ISBN: 9780802136923
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Amazon: 0802136923
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Goodreads: 109397
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2000-06-15T04:00:00+00:00

Scene 15

BEN’s office. FELIX, with great effort, walks toward him. Though he looks terrible, FELIX has a bit of his old twinkle.

FELIX: Thank you for seeing me. Your brother and I are lovers. I’m dying and I need to make a will. Oh, I know Neddie hasn’t been talking to you; our excuse is we’ve sort of been preoccupied. It’s a little hard on us, isn’t it, his kind of love, because we disappoint him so. But it is love. I hope you know that. I haven’t very much time left. I want to leave everything to Ned. I’ve written it all down.

BEN: (Taking the piece of paper from FELIX and studying it.) Do you have any family, Felix?

FELIX: My parents are dead. I had a wife.

BEN: You had a wife?

FELIX: Yes. Here’s the divorce. (He hands BEN another piece of paper.) And I have a son. Here’s . . . she has custody. (He hands over yet another piece of paper.)

BEN: Does she know you’re ill?

FELIX: Yes. I called and we’ve said our good-byes. She doesn’t want anything from me. She was actually rather pleasant. Although she wouldn’t let me talk to my boy.

BEN: How is my brother?

FELIX: Well, he blames himself, of course, for everything from my dying to the state of the entire world. But he’s not talking so much these days, believe it or not. You must be as stubborn as he is—not to have called.

BEN: I think of doing it every day. I’m sorry I didn’t know you were ill. I’ll call him right away.

FELIX: He’s up at Yale for the week. He’s in terrible shape. He was thrown out of the organization he loved so much. After almost three years he sits at home all day, flagellating himself awfully because he thinks he’s failed some essential test—plus my getting near the end and you two still not talking to each other.

BEN: Ned was thrown out of his own organization?

FELIX: Yes.

BEN: Felix, I wish we could have met sooner.

FELIX: I haven’t much, except a beautiful piece of land on the Cape in Wellfleet on a hill overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Ned doesn’t know about it. It was to have been a surprise, we’d live there together in the house he always wanted. I also have an insurance policy with the Times. I’m a reporter for the New York Times.

BEN: You work for the Times?

FELIX: Yes. Fashion. La-de-da. It’s meant to come to my next of kin. I’ve specified Ned. I’m afraid they might not give it to him.

BEN: If he is listed as the beneficiary, they must.

FELIX: But what if they don’t?

BEN: I assure you I will fight to see that he gets it.

FELIX: I was hoping you’d say that. Can I sign my will now, please, in case I don’t have time to see you again?

BEN: This will be quite legal. We can stop by one of my associates’ offices and get it properly witnessed as you sign it.

FELIX: My little piece of paper is legal? Then why did you go to law school?

BEN: I sometimes wonder.

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