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treated as a queen when off the stage, or else
she should get out of practice, and he who was
employed to come in with a letter made himself
as important as the first lover. ’For,’ said he,
’the small are of just as much importance as
the great, in an artistic whole.’ Then the
hero demanded that the whole of his part
should only be retorts on making his exit, for
these the public applauded; the prima donna
would only play in a red light, for that suited
her best – she would not be blue: they were
all like flies in a bottle, and I was also in the
bottle – for I was the manager. I lost my
breath, my head was quite dizzy! I was as
miserable as a man can be; it was a new race
of beings I had come amongst; I wished that I
had them altogether again in the chest, that I
had never been a manager: I told them that
they were in fact only puppets, and so they beat
me to death. That was my feeling!
"I lay on the bed in my chamber; but how I
had come there from the polytechnic candidate,
he must know best – for I do not. The
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