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Aunty Acid by Ged Backland for February 27, 2023
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This reminds me of the 1923 play by Elmer L. Rice, “The Adding Machine.” It used to be quite popular and was often performed in small venues over the years. I haven’t thought about it in a long time.
“The Adding Machine” is a full-length drama by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elmer L. Rice. The story of Mr. Zero, an accountant at a large, faceless corporation. After 25 years on the job, Mr. Zero discovers that he will be replaced – by an adding machine. He murders his boss in a rage, is tried and hanged. In the Afterlife he is initially sentenced to running an adding machine forever …
https://store.bizbooks.net/addingmachine.aspx
https://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/download/1131/1130/2264