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l'll introduce you to the Board
at intermission.
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Can we start right away?
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Recovered?
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to
our 6th presentation this season.
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Tonight, we have a well-known and
controversial author in our midst.
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Gerard Reve.
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Thank you for accepting
our invitation, Mr. Reve.
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lt's going to be great.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
l give the floor to Gerard Reve.
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When l arrived at
Vlissingen Station tonight...
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...they were unloading a coffin
from the train.
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A gigantic coffin.
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So large that it didn't flt
into a regular hearse...
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...but had to be loaded on a truck.
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There were some thirty dwarfs
standing around it...
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...they were no taller than this.
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They were members of a circus act...
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...who were going to bury their
colleague, the world's tallest man.
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A grotesque tragedy, don't you think?
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But why am l telling you this?
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What is so special about this story?