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Dec. 16th, 2002 09:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishthe following is for everyone i know who does theatre. which is quite a lot of them.
Lysek has been describing how the audience at certain plays pelt the villain with vegetable matter, and the importance of keeping things clean:
"And therefore you spend your time cleaning rotten vegetables from the bottom of shoes."
"That is exactly the case," said Lysek.
"Well, if you will pardon me, it does not seem to be an enjoyable pastime."
"Oh, it is not, I assure you."
"It is, in fact, odious?"
"Odious is the very word I should use to describe it."
"But at least," said Pel, "the pay is good."
"On the contrary, the pay is so poor, I can scarcely live from one day to the next...."
"Well then, do you hope to someday rise to better position in the theatre?"
"Hardly," said Lysek. "I have been given to understand that this is the only role to which I can ever aspire."
Pel frowned. "Well, then, why don't you find another position?"
"How?" said Lysek, amazed. "Impossible. I live for the theatre."
--Steven Brust, Five Hundred Years After pp 88-89 (hardback).
(Five Hundred Years After and its prequel, The Phoenix Guards, are brilliant pastiches of Alexandre Dumas's Musketeers novels. Read them. They rule.)
Lysek has been describing how the audience at certain plays pelt the villain with vegetable matter, and the importance of keeping things clean:
"And therefore you spend your time cleaning rotten vegetables from the bottom of shoes."
"That is exactly the case," said Lysek.
"Well, if you will pardon me, it does not seem to be an enjoyable pastime."
"Oh, it is not, I assure you."
"It is, in fact, odious?"
"Odious is the very word I should use to describe it."
"But at least," said Pel, "the pay is good."
"On the contrary, the pay is so poor, I can scarcely live from one day to the next...."
"Well then, do you hope to someday rise to better position in the theatre?"
"Hardly," said Lysek. "I have been given to understand that this is the only role to which I can ever aspire."
Pel frowned. "Well, then, why don't you find another position?"
"How?" said Lysek, amazed. "Impossible. I live for the theatre."
--Steven Brust, Five Hundred Years After pp 88-89 (hardback).
(Five Hundred Years After and its prequel, The Phoenix Guards, are brilliant pastiches of Alexandre Dumas's Musketeers novels. Read them. They rule.)
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Date: 2002-12-16 06:54 pm (UTC)bah. *grin*