1:10:01
Amusing!
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These gentlemen seek
a quarrel with me,
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all very politely, I admit.
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We all must kill time in some way.
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Gentlemen, you're wrong
about my friend here.
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I haven't known him long,
but in his way,
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he's a remarkable fellow,
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and not lacking in talent.
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All kinds of talents, no doubt.
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It takes all kinds to make a world,
or unmake it.
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Amusing.
1:10:32
An amusing pleasantry.
1:10:35
- Quite.
- You really find him amusing?
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Then let us amuse ourselves.
1:10:42
Besides, we run no risk.
1:10:44
The gentleman doesn't fight duels.
1:10:46
Absolutely not.
1:10:50
How do you ply your talents
these days?
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Since you ask,
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I'm putting
the finishing touches
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on something
that will cause a sensation.
1:11:04
A tragedy, no doubt.
1:11:06
No, a comedy, a farce.
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Or a tragedy, if you prefer.
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It's all the same.
There's no difference.
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Or very little.
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For example,
if a king is deceived,
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it's a tragedy of infidelity.
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He's deceived not by his wife...
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- But by Fate.
- Yes, Fate.
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But if it's a poor devil like you or me,
Monsieur de Montray...
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and I use "me" as a figure of speech...
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it's no longer a tragedy,
1:11:37
but mere buffoonery,
a sorry tale of cuckolds.
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Yet it's the same matter
under the pauper's cap or the crown.
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The dead matter of love
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rotting in the heads
of the unloved.
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Always the same matter,
the same stories, the same tears.
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So the genre is nothing.
My play need only amuse.