The Blue Bird: a Fairy Play in Six Acts by Maurice Maeterlinck
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things.... You shall share our life, you shall see all that we do....
TYLTYL What do you do? THE LUXURY Why, we occupy ourselves incessantly in doing nothing.... We never have a moment's rest.... We have to drink, we have to eat, we have to sleep. It's most engrossing.... TYLTYL Is it amusing? THE LUXURY Why, yes.... It needs must be; it's all there is on this Earth.... LIGHT Do you think so?... THE LUXURY (_pointing to_ LIGHT, _aside, to_ TYLTYL) Who is that ill-bred young person?... (_During the whole of the preceding conversation a crowd of_ LUXURIES _of the second order have been busying themselves with the_ DOG, SUGAR _and_ BREAD _and have dragged them to the orgie_. TYLTYL _suddenly sees them seated fraternally at the table with their hosts, eating, drinking and flinging themselves about wildly_.) TYLTYL Why, look, Light!... They are sitting at the table!... |
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