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Vivian addresses the audience here, again trying to remain relatively aloof even as she is in great pain and vomits multiple times. She comments on her own devolving vocabulary, as she slowly loses her ability to use elevated language to remain detached from and in control of her situation.
In musing on her own hypothetical death, Vivian essentially admits that she has no close friends or family. She doesn’t describe anyone actually mourning her or being emotionally moved by her loss, but only how her professional relationships would be affected—and some people would even be “relieved.” At this point in…
