Shuddered with fear or with longing? Did you feel a yearning for your money?
(Ghostly laughter shakes the rows of the dead.)
The distinguished and the wealthy must surely have had a bad day.
It fairly smelled of money and they had to lie with the worms.
It almost threw them out of their graves.
Many
Money ... money ... money.... (Ghostly laughter.)
But you poor devils hadn’t a much better time either. It smelled of money and you couldn’t even beg. (Laughter.)
It is high time for all of you to be forgetting life.... Come quickly into the synagogue....
(Many of the dead vanish.)