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THE RAGMAN
NO PERFORMANCE
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Come in.
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Your dinner, Mr Baptiste.
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Thank you, but I'm not hungry.
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You're being unreasonable.
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True, I'm unreasonable.
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Shutting yourself up like a monk!
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No, monks pray.
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I sleep, I dream.
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Everyone's looking for you.
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Hardly everyone.
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The Funambules is closed.
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Your wife, your son, your father,
the whole troupe...
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you can't just forget them
like that!
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But I couldn't go on living
like a fool in an asylum,
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with everyone around me
whispering,
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"What's wrong? Is he ill?"
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I even saw a doctor for them.
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- What did he say?
- That I was fit as a fiddle.
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"Mild depression, overwork.
It's nothing!"
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And what was his prescription?
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"Go see Baptiste.
He'll cheer you up."
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What if I don't want to cheer up?
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- What's today?
- Thursday.
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Tonight's the premiere
of Othello, with Mr Frederick.
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You should go.
It will cheer you up.
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Oh, sorry!
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Othello would make
a nice pantomime.
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A man kills his beloved
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and it kills him, poor man!
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A sad, absurd tale,
like so many others.
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Like mine or yours,
Madame Hermine.
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You spend your empty days
in your empty rooms
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with your poor empty heart.