The Tenth Man

Paddy Chayefsky

1959

The Cabalist:

Sexton, light the candles. [The Sextonlights each man’s candle. The Cabalistadvances slowly to The Girl, who stands slackly, her body making small occasional jerking movements, apparently in a schizophrenic state. THE CABALIST slowly draws a line before THE GIRL with the flat of his toe. Quietly.] Dybbuk, I draw this line beyond which…

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