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Danny And The Deep Blue Sea by John Patrick Shanley The present. A bar in the Bronx. DANNY (29), “violent, battered, inarticulate, and earnin! to spea"#, tells $%B&$TA that '& thin"s '& "illed a !u in a !ht last ni!ht. The incident !ives DANNY a chance to release so e o* '+ pent-up ra!e. DANNY: I was at this party. A guy named Skull. Everybody was getting fucked up. Somebody said there was some guys outside. I went out. There were these two guys from another neighborhood out there. I asked ‘em what they were doing there. They knew somebody. One of ‘em was a big guy. eal drunk. !e said they wanted to go" but something about twenty dollars. I told him to give me the twenty dollars" but he didn#t have it. I started hitting him. $ut when I hit him" it never seemed to be hard" you know% I hit him a lot in the chest and face but it didn#t seem to do nothing. I had him over a car hood. !is friend wanted to take him away. I said okay. They started to go down the block. And they started to &ght. So I ran after them. I hit on the little guy a minute" and then I started working the big guy again. Everybody 'ust watched. I hit him as hard as I could for about ten minutes. It never seemed like enough. Then I looked at his face . . . !is teeth were all broken. !e fell down. I stomped on his fuckin chest and I heard something break. I grabbed him under the arms and pushed him over a little fence. Into somebody#s driveway. Somebody pointed to some guy and said he had twenty dollars. I kicked him in the nuts. !e went right o( the ground. Then I left. A/ &. Everybody makes me mad. That#s why I don#t ever talk to nobody. That#s why I#m sittin in this fuckin bar. I don#t feel like walkin home. I feel like I#m gon have to &ght everybody in the whole fucking $ron) to get home. And I#m too tired to &ght everybody.

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Danny And The Deep Blue Sea by John Patrick ShanleyThe present. A bar in the Bronx. DANNY (29), violent, battered, inarticulate, and yearning to speak, tells ROBERTA that HE thinks HE killed a guy in a fight last night. The incident gives DANNY a chance to release some of HIS pent-up rage.DANNY: I was at this party. A guy named Skull. Everybody was getting fucked up. Somebody said there was some guys outside. I went out. There were these two guys from another neighborhood out there. I asked em what they were doing there. They knew somebody. One of em was a big guy. Real drunk. He said they wanted to go, but something about twenty dollars. I told him to give me the twenty dollars, but he didnt have it. I started hitting him. But when I hit him, it never seemed to be hard, you know? I hit him a lot in the chest and face but it didnt seem to do nothing. I had him over a car hood. His friend wanted to take him away. I said okay. They started to go down the block. And they started to fight. So I ran after them. I hit on the little guy a minute, and then I started working on the big guy again. Everybody just watched. I hit him as hard as I could for about ten minutes. It never seemed like enough. Then I looked at his face . . . His teeth were all broken. He fell down. I stomped on his fuckin chest and I heard something break.I grabbed him under the arms and pushed him over a little fence. Into somebodys driveway. Somebody pointed to some guy and said he had twenty dollars. I kicked him in the nuts. He went right off the ground. Then I left. PAUSE.Everybody makes me mad. Thats why I dont ever talk to nobody. Thats why Im sittin in this fuckin bar. I dont feel like walkin home. I feel like Im gonna have to fight everybody in the whole fucking Bronx to get home. And Im too tired to fight everybody.