Watch
this attraction I'm going to try over.
CLOWN. You still rehearse, do you?
MAN OF THE WORLD. Once. Would you like to watch? Then you'll see.
CLOWN. What's it called?
MAN OF THE WORLD. It's called "Love: a Disease", and it's Number
seventy-six of the High Brow Ibsen series. It ain't got nothing to do with
Ibsen really, but his is still a name that sells. He was a German professor
of mathematics and highly respected in his day. I'll have you see a bit of
one act.
COLUMBINE. What's the plot?
MAN OF THE WORLD. No plot. It's a home life story, a conversation. A man is
telling a woman that he is just bored stiff with everything on earth.
PANTALOON. Ah!
MAN OF THE WORLD. And she doesn't know what to say. That's the first act.
CLOWN. Gosh!
MAN OF THE WORLD. In the next he's asking her advice as to whether a really
tired man ought to marry. And she doesn't know.
CLOWN. How long does that take?
MAN OF THE WORLD. Quite a while.
CLOWN. Which is the act we are going to see?
MAN OF THE WORLD.
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