\"Mike\" Final Monologue - Studs Terkel/Stephen Schwartz - \"Working\"
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (General) North American (US Midwest- Chicago, Great Lakes)Transcript
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you want to hear about my job? I don't want to talk about my job. I want to talk about something else. Maybe U S Steel that but I guess not a nut. He never talks about work. Maybe baseball bowling, maybe getting lucky with the old lady. I mean, you think about this piece of work, Let's say Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel. This is a beautiful work of art. But what if you had to create the Sistine Chapel 1000 times a year? Don't you think that it would all Michelangelo's mind or DaVinci? He had to draw those any time, which was 60 80 90 100 times a day. You know, sometimes out of creaminess, I put a little dent in it. I hit it with my hammer just to make it unique. I deliberately screw up to see if you'll get by just to say I did it. I want my signature on it. My imprint. My mistake. Mine. See, It's not just the work somebody built. The pyramids, the pyramids, the Empire State building. These things don't just happen. I'd like to see a building say, the Empire State Building. I'd like to see on one side, a foot wide strip from top to bottom with the names of every brick layer electrician, all the names. So when a guy he could take his son and say, See, that's me on the 45th floor I put that steel beam in. Picasso can point to a painting a writer to a book. What can I point to? Everyone should have something to point to.