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hell

I in Hell how dare you I've not been

perfect who has but hell oh you are

lying hell Senora I assure you that I

have sincerely repented I have confessed

how much more sins than I really

committed I love confession uh that is

perhaps as bad as confessing too little

at all events in Europe whether by

oversight or intention you are certainly

damned like myself and there's nothing

for it now but to make the best of it oh

and I might have been so much Wicked

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she's wasted it is unjust we have many

good people here what were you a good

man I was a murderer

is that I was

expected here probably they will not

admit a mistake even if they've made one

but whom can I ask I should ask the

devil Senora he understands the ways of

this place which is more than I ever

could the devil

hell Senora the devil is the leader of

the best Society

I know I am not in Hell how do you know

because I feel no pain ah then there is

no mistake you are intentionally damned

why do you say that because hell Senora

is a place for the wicked the wicked are

quite comfortable in it it was made for

them

you tell me you feel no pain I conclude

you're one of those for whom hell exists

do you feel no pain I'm not one of the

wickeds and you're therefore it bores me

bores me Beyond description beyond

belief not one of the wicked you said

you were a murderer only a duel I ran my

sword through an old man was trying to

run his through me if you were a

gentleman that was not a murder the old

man called it murder because he was he

said defending his daughter's honor I

foolishly fell in love with her and told

her so she screamed he tried to

assassinate me after calling me

insulting me listen to me my father was

slain by just such a man as you in just

such a duel for just such a cause I

screamed it was my duty my father Drew

on my assailant his honor demanded it he

fell that was the reward of Honor I am

here in hell you tell me that is the

reward of Duty is there Justice in

heaven no but there is Justice in Hell

you'll be welcome in Hell Senora hell is

the home of Honor Duty Justice and the

rest of the seven deadly virtues

all the wickedness on Earth is done in

their name where else but in hell should

they have their reward have I not told

you that the truly damned are those who

are happy in hell are you happy here no

and that is the Enigma on which I Ponder

in darkness why am I here I who

repudiated all Duty trampled honor

underfoot and laughed at just what I

care why you I hear why am I here

patience lady you'll be perfectly happy

and at home here happy here

are nothing where

nobody nothing is real here that's the

horror of damage oh this is all Madness

for you perhaps there are consolations

for instance how old were you when you

changed from time to Eternity do not

but in Hell old age is not tolerated

it's too real here we worship love and

beauty as a lady of 77 you wouldn't have

a single acquaintance in Hell well how

can I help my age man you forget that

you've left your age behind you in the

realm of time here you're no more 77

than you are 7 or 17 or 27 nonsense

consider Senora was not this true even

when you lived on earth when you were 70

were you really older underneath your

wrinkles and gray hair than when you

were 30 no younger but what use is it to

feel younger and look older you see the

look was only an illusion well here we

have no bodies we see each other as

bodies only because we learn to think

about one another under that aspect when

we were alive and we still think in that

way knowing no other but we can appear

to one another at what age we choose you

have but to will any of your old looks

back and back they will come it cannot

be true try Seventeen stop

before you decide I'd better tell you

that these things are a matter of

fashion occasionally we have a rage for

17 but it doesn't last long

just at present the fashionable age is

40 or say 37 but there are signs of a

change if you were at all good looking

at 27 eyes should suggest you're trying

that and setting a new fashion I do not

believe a word you are saying however 27

bit

what you know me and you forget me well

I cannot see your face

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you shall not leave me alone in this

Dreadful place

provided my stay and be not interpreted

as Pursuit you may well wonder how I can

endure your presence my dear dear father

yeah you'd like to see him well my

father here no he's in heaven oh I knew

it oh my Noble father

he is looking down on us now what must

he feel to see his daughter in this

place and in conversation with his

murderer you would rather not see him

probably how dare you say that oh that's

the usual feeling here you may remember

that on Earth though of course we never

confessed it the death of anyone we knew

even those we liked best was always

mingled with a certain satisfaction at

being finally done with the monster

never never I see you recognize the

feeling at all of that Senora family

ties are really kept up here your

father's quite accustomed to this he

won't expect any devotion from him but I

will mourning for him all my life yes it

became you but a life of mourning is one

thing an eternity of it quite another

besides here you're as dead as he can

anything be more ridiculous than one

dead person mourning for another

I do not look shocked my dear animal

don't be alarmed there's plenty of

humbug in hell and will all the men call

me their dear Anna no that was a step of

the tongue a beg your pardon Juan

did you really love me when you behaved

so disgracefully to me oh I bet you not

to begin talking about love listen it's

your father you'd better disappear until

I prepare him

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oh

here you are you are my friend

you repented yet I have too much

consideration for you to repent on your

commander if I did you'd have no excuse

for coming from Heaven to argue with me

true remain my boy

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I wish I had killed you as I should have

done but for an accident and then I

should have come here and you would have

had a repetition for piety to live up to

any news yes your daughter's dead

my daughter

oh yeah

no I haven't seen him since Anna arrived

what does this mean Octavio here and

your friend and you father have

forgotten my name my child in this place

what our libertine friend here would

call the fast of Parental wisdom is

dropped regard me I beg as a fellow

creature not as a father you speakers

this villain speaks Quan is a sound

thinker and it's a bad fencer but it

sounds

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mocking me I had better pray

if you do you throw away the main

advantage of this place

written over the gates here other words

leave every hope behind ye who enter

only think what a relief that is

killer there's no hope God's gonna need

no Duty no work nothing to be gained by

praying nothing can be lost by doing

what you like hell in shorts is nothing

to do but abuse yourself you're in good

spirits today come on they are

positively brilliant what's the matter I

have come to a momentous decision my boy

but first where is our friend the devil

I must consult him in the matter and

Anna would like to make his acquaintance

wearing some torment for me all their

Superstition and a reassure yourself the

devil's not so black as he's painted

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have I the pleasure of again receiving a

visit from the illustrious Commander Don

Juan your servant and a strange lady my

respect Senora are you Lucifer as your

service

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come to us from Earth full of the

prejudices and Terrors of that priest

ridden please you've heard meals spoken

of but believe me I have hosts of

friends there yes you reign in their

hearts oh you flatter me Senora but you

are mistaken it's true the world cannot

get on without me but it never gives me

credit for that and it's hard it

mistrusts it hates me its sympathies are

all with misery with poverty with stuff

Invasion of the Body and the heart I

call and it to sympathize with joy with

love with happiness with beauty excuse

me I'm going you know I cannot stand

this yes I know you're no friend of mine

what harm is he doing you Juana seems to

me he's talking excellent since thank

you my friend thank you you've always

understood me he's always disparaged and

avoided I've treated you with perfect

courtesy courtesy what is courtesy I

have nothing for me to Courtesy give me

warmth of heart choose sincerity the

bond of sympathy with love with joy

you're making me ill oh you hear by what

ironyal faith was this

selfish he get he's taken to my kingdom

and you sent to the icy Mansions of the

sky I can't complain I was a hypocrite

it served me right to be sent to heaven

why sir

do you not join us leave that spilled

with your heart is too warm your

capacity for enjoyment too generous I

have this day resolved to do so I have

left Heaven forever in future oh

excellent sun in the morning I am yours

what an honor for me what a Triumph

cause thank you thank you and now my

friend I I may call you so alone could

you not persuade him to take that place

that you've left vacant about

but I I cannot conscientiously recommend

anybody with whom I'm on friendly terms

to deliberately make himself dull and

uncomfortable of course no no but but

are you sure he would be dull and

uncomfortable you know of course you

know best and we have the greatest hopes

of him his sentiments were in the best

Taste of the best people you remember

how he sang

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your Gloria do many times

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do you complain of that hell is full of

musical amateurs

music is the Brandy of the Damned may

not one lost soul be permitted to

abstain

yeah blaspheme against the supply most

of the eyes you talk like a hysterical

woman fawning on a fiddler I'm not angry

with you I merely pity you you have no

soul and you're unconscious of all that

you lose now you it's in your commander

or a Bull musician Mozart would be

delighted if he was still here but he

moped he went to heaven curious how

these clever men whom you would have

supposed born to be popular here have

turned out social failures like Don Juan

I'm really very sorry to be a social

failure it's not that we don't admire

your intellect you know we do but you

don't get on with us this place it

doesn't suit you

the truth is you have I won't say no

heart because beneath all your affected

cynicism you have a warm I don't I mean

please don't well you have no capacity

for enjoyment will that satisfy you it's

somewhat less insufferable but if you'll

allow me I'll take refuge as usual in

solitude why not take refuge in heaven

that's a proper place for you oh

comes in your eye could you not persuade

him for his own good try a change of air

let's go to heaven if he wants to wants

to prevent him can anybody

I go to heaven if I want to well

certainly if your taste lies that way

why doesn't everybody go to heaven

is that my dear it's because heaven is

the most and

inauguration that's why his Excellency

the commander puts it with military

bluntness but the strain of living in

heaven it's intolerable there is a

notion that I was turned out of it but

as a matter of fact nothing would have

induced me to stay there I simply left

and organized this place

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nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven

Irving sued some people takes all sorts

to make a universe

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would say some people like it you know I

think Don Juan would like it but pardon

my frankness could you really go back

there if you desired to or are the

grapes sour back there

I often go back there have you any

Authority for assuming that there is any

barrier between our Circle and the other

one but surely there is a great golf

fixed oh dear lady a parable must not be

taken literally

foreign

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between the Angelic and the diabolic

temperament what more impossible golf

could you have

you ever been in that country where I

have the largest following England

there they have great race courses and

also concertromes where they play the

classical compositions of his Excellence

his friend Mozart those who go to the

race courses can stay away from them go

to the classical concerts and say if

they like there's no law against it for

Englishmen will never slaves they are

free to do whatever the government and

public opinion allows them to do

at the classical concert is admitted to

be a higher more elevated poetic

intellectual and nobling place than the

Racecourse but do the lovers of racing

desert that Sport and flock to the

concert rooms

not they they would suffer there all the

weariness the commander has suffered in

heaven see there is the Great Gulf of

the parable between the two places a

mere physical Gulf they could bridge but

the Gulf of dislike is impossible and

eternal I shall go to heaven at once my

child one word of warning first let me

complete my friend Lucifer's similitude

of the classical concert

at every one of those concerts in

England

you will find rows of weary people

who are there

not because they really like classical

music

but because they think they ought to

like

anything in heaven a number of people

sit there in glory not because they're

happy but because they think they owe it

to their position to be in heaven

they're almost all English yes

the Latins all give it up and join me

just as you have done but the English

really do not seem to know when they're

thoroughly miserable an Englishman

thinks he's moral when he's only

uncomfortable it sure

might have them without being naturally

qualified for it you'll not enjoy

yourself there no death

truly qualified qualified for it I owe

it to myself to leave this

once as you wish in your eye should have

expected better taste from you father I

shall expect you to come with me you

cannot stay here what will people say

people why are the best people are here

so few who go to heaven so many come

here for the best one's called a

Heavenly Host are now a continually

dwindling minority that is true I think

Emma you had better stay here you can

not want me to go with you oh surely you

don't want to enter Heaven in the

company of a reprobate like me All Souls

are equally precious you repent do you

not my dear Anna you asked any do you

suppose that heaven is like Earth where

people persuade themselves that what is

done can be undone by repentance but

what is true can be annihilated by a

general agreement to give it the lie no

Heaven is the home of the Masters of

Reality and that is why I am going this

thank you I am going to heaven for

happiness I've had quite enough of

reality on Earth then you must stay here

for hell is the home of the unreal and

of The Seekers for happiness it's the

only Refuge from Heaven which is as I

tell you the home of the Masters of

Reality and from Earth which is the home

of the slaves of reality the Earth is a

nursery where men and women play it

being Heroes and heroines Saints and

Sinners but they're dragged down from

their Fools Paradise by their bodies

hunger and cold and thirst age and Decay

and disease death above all make them

waves of reality all driven at last to

have but one prayer make me a healthy

animal but here you escape the tyranny

of the flesh here you're not an animal

at all oh you are a ghost

an appearance an illusion a convention

deathless ageless in a word bodyless

there are no social questions here no

political questions no religious

questions best of all perhaps no

sanitary questions here you call your

appearance Beauty your emotions love

your

your heroism your aspirations

here there are no hard facts to

contradict you no ironic contrast of

your needs with your pretensions no

human comedy nothing

melodrama and yet you want to leave this

paradise but if he'll be so beautiful as

this how glorious must Heaven be

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ANS no no I interrupted you after you

gentlemen oh you've been so eloquent as

to the advantages of my dominions I

leave you to do Equal justice to the

drawbacks of the alternative established

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in heaven as I picture it dear lady you

you live and work instead of playing and

pretending you face things as they are

if the play still goes on here and on

Earth and all the worlds are staged

Heaven is at least behind the scenes and

dither I shall go presently because

there I hope to escape from the lies and

from the tedious vulgar Pursuit of

Happiness to spend my eons in

a picture gallery is a doll place for a

blind man but even as you enjoy the

contemplation of such romantic mirages

as Beauty and pleasure so would I enjoy

the contemplation of that which

interests me Above All Things

namely

life

is there nothing in heaven but

contemplation one in the heaven I seek

no other Joy but there is the work of

helping life in its struggle upward

think of how it wastes and scatters

itself and it raises up obstacles to

itself and destroys itself in its

ignorance and blindness it needs a brain

this irresistible Force what a piece of

work is man says the poet yes but what a

blunderer

here is the highest Miracle of

organization yet attained by life the

most intensely alive thing that exists

the most conscious of

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Richard are his brains did I not say

when I was arranging that Affair of

fouls that all man's brains have done

for him is to make him beastlier than

any Beast one Splendid body is worth

more than the brains of a hundred

dyspeptic flatulent philosophers you

forget that brainless magnificence of

body has been tried things immeasurably

greater than man in every respect but

brain had existed and perished the

megatherium the ichthyosaurus have paced

the Earth with seven League steps and

hidden the day with cloud-fast wings

where are they now fossils in museums

these things lived and wanted to live

but for lack of brains they did not know

how to carry out their purpose and so

destroyed themselves and is man any the

list destroying himself for all his

boasted brain of his have you walked up

and down on the earth lately

I have

and I have examined man's wonderful

inventions when he goes out to slay he

carries a Marvel of mechanism that lets

loose at the touch of his finger all the

hidden molecular energies and leaves the

devil in the arrow the blowpipe of his

father is far behind in the Arts of

Peace A man is a bungler his heart he's

in his weapons His Marvelous force of

Life of which you boast it's a force of

death man measures his strength by his

destructiveness what is his religion an

excuse for hating me what's his law an

excuse for hanging you what is his art

an excuse for gloating over pictures of

slaughter their imaginations glow their

energies rise at the idea of death these

people they love it and the more

horrible it is the more they enjoy it

the highest work of literature is the

tragedy a play in which everyone is

murdered at the end I could give you a

thousand instances but they all come to

the same thing the power that governs

the Earth is not the power of life but

of death the plague the fell in the

earthquake the temples were two

spasmodic interaction the tiger and the

crocodile too easily satiated not cruel

enough something more constantly more

ruthlessly more ingeniously destructive

was needed and that something was man

the inventor of the rack the steak The

Gallows the electrocuter and above all

of Justice Duty patriotism and all the

other isms by which even those who are

humanely disposed are persuaded to

become the most destructive of all the

Destroyers sure all this is old you take

man at his own valuation nothing but

flatter him more than your opinion of

him he loved to think of himself as bold

and bad he's neither one nor the other

he's only a coward coal man Tyrant

murderer pirate bully and he'll adore

you and Swagger about with the blood of

the sea Kings in his veins call him liar

and thief and he'll only take an action

against you for libel but call him

coward and he'll go mad with rage he'll

face death to outface that stinging

truth yes all his civilization is

founded on his cowardice on his abject

cameness which he calls his

respectability precisely and these are

the creatures in whom you discover what

you call a life force yes for now comes

the most surprising part of the whole

business what's that man who in his own

selfish Affairs is a coward to the

backbone will fight for an idea like a

hero yes he Sharps all his

responsibilities and leaves his wife to

Grapple with them well said daughter

don't let him talk you out of your

common sense the last in your commander

now we've got onto the subject of woman

he'll talk more than ever to a woman

said you're a man's duties and

responsibilities begin and end with the

task of getting bread for her children

to her man is only a means to the end of

getting children and rearing them is

that your idea of a woman's mind I call

it cynical and disgusting pardon me Anna

I said nothing about a woman's whole

mind I spoke of her view of man as a

separate sex it's no more cynical than

her view of herself as above all things

a mother sexually woman is Nature's

contrivance for perpetuating its highest

achievement sexually man is woman's

contrivance for fulfilling Nature's

behest in the most economical way

Woman Knows by Instinct that far back in

the evolutional process she invented him

differentiated him created him in order

to produce something better than the

Single Sex process can produce whilst he

fulfills the purpose for which she made

him he's welcome to his dreams his

followers his ideals his heroisms

provided that the Keystone of them all

is the worship of woman

of motherhood of family of the half

how rash and dangerous it was to invent

a separate creature whose sole function

was her own impregnation but Mark what's

happened first man has Multiplied on her

hands until there are as many men as

women so that she's been unable to

employ for her purposes more than a

fraction of the immense energy she's

left at his disposal by saving him the

exhausting labor of gestation

this Superfluous energy has gone to his

brain and his muscle he's become too

strong to be controlled by her bodily to

imaginative and mentally vigorous to be

content with mere self reproduction he

has created civilization without

consulting her taking her domestic labor

for granted as the foundation of it well

that's true at all events yes and these

civilization what is it after all it is

an attempt on man's part to make himself

something more than the mere instrument

of woman's purpose so far the result of

life's continual effort to achieve

higher and higher organization and

complete a self-consciousness is only at

best a doubtful campaign between its

forces and those of death and

degeneration so you conclude then that

life is driving a clumsiness and

ugliness

a thousand times no life is driving at

brains no it's darling object an organ

by which it can attain not only

self-conscious but

self-understanding this is

Juan

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you're the use of my name to zagira

digital emphasis is a high compliment to

me it's great at your service thank you

that's very good of you but what I was

going to ask well

was why life should bother itself

without getting a brain why should it

want to understand it so why not be

content to enjoy itself without a brain

Commander you would enjoy yourself

without knowing it and so lose all the

fun

true most true but I'm quite content

with brain enough to know I'm enjoying

myself I don't want to understand why in

fact I I'd rather not in my experiences

that one's Pleasures don't bear thinking

about it that's why intellect is so

unpopular but to life the force behind

the man intellect is a necessity because

without it he plunders into death

Justice life after ages of struggle

evolve that wonderful bodily organ the

eye so that the living organism could

see where it was going and what was

coming to help or threatened it and thus

avoid a thousand dangers that formally

slow it so it is evolving today a a

Mind's Eye that shall see not the

physical world but the purpose of life

and thereby enable the individual

to work for that purpose instead of

thwarting it by setting up short-sighted

personal aims as at present I mean even

as it is only one sort of man has ever

been happy has ever been universally

respected amidst all the conflicts of

interest and illusion you mean the

military man no I sing not arms and the

hero but the philosophic man of all

other sorts of men I declare myself

tired they are tedious failures when I

was on Earth

professors of All Sorts proud around me

feeling for an unhealthy spotty me on

which they could fasten the doctors of

medicine badly consider what I must do

to save my body and offered me a crack

cures for Imaginary diseases I replied

that I was not a hypochondriac so they

call me ignoramus and went their way the

doctors of divinity badly consider what

I must do to save my soul but I wouldn't

cover myself about that either so they

call me atheist and went their way then

came the

hmm

the romantic man the artist

with his love songs and his paintings

and his poems

and with him I had great Delight for

many years and some profit for I

cultivated my senses for his sake and

his songs taught me to hear better his

paintings to see better and his poems to

feel more deeply but

he led me at last into the worship of

woman oh Juan yes I came to believe that

in her voice was all the music of the

song in her face all the beauty of the

painting in her soul all the emotion of

the poem and you were disappointed I

suppose

but was it her fault

cunning she kept silent and allowed me

to glorify her to mistake my own Visions

thoughts and feelings for hers I found

that when I had touched a woman's

imagination

she would allow me to persuade myself

that she loved me but when my suit was

granted she never said I'm happy my love

is satisfied she always said first at

last the barriers are down and second

when will you come again

the professor I've never said about all

women say it now these two speeches

always alarm me for the for the Flint

that the ladies impulse had been solely

to throw down my fortifications and gain

my Citadel and the second openly

announced that henceforth she regarded

me as her property and counted my time

as already holy at her disposal that is

where your wand of heart came in you

shouldn't repeat what a woman says it

should be sacred to you still they

certainly do always sit

Ben the lady who had been happy and idle

enough before became anxious

preoccupied with me always intriguing

conspiring pursuing watching waiting Ben

holy are making sure of her prey I being

the prey you understand now this was not

what I'd bargained for I ran away from

it I ran away from it very often in fact

I became famous for running away from it

I did not run away from you and do you

blame me from running away from the

others nonsense man you're talking to a

woman of 77 now

you had had the chance you would have

run away from me too if I had let you

you would not have found it so easy with

me as with some of the others

I dare say you all want to marry lovely

incarnations of music and painting and

poetry well you can't have them because

they don't exist

if flesh and blood is not good enough

for you then you must go without that's

all women have to put up with flesh and

blood husbands and little enough of that

too sometimes and you will have to put

up with flesh and blood white I can see

you don't like that any of you but it's

true for all that so if you don't like

it you can lump it my dear lady my dear

lady put my whole case against romance

into a few sentences that's just why I

turned my back on the romantic man I've

thanked him for teaching me to use my

eyes and ears but I told him that his

Beauty worshiping and his happiness

hunting and his woman idealizing was not

worth a dump as a philosophy of life so

he called me Philistine and went his way

it seems that woman taught you something

too with all her defects she did more

she interpreted all the other teaching

for me are my friends when the barriers

were down for the first time

what an astounding illumination I had

been prepared for infatuation for

intoxication for all the illusions of

Love's young dream and love never was my

perception clearer nor my criticism more

ruthless I was not duped I took her

without chloroform

you did take her that was the Revelation

up to that moment up to that moment I'd

never lost a sense of being my own

Master never consciously taken a single

step until my reason had examined and

approved it I'd come to believe that I

was a purely rational creature a thinker

I said with the foolish philosopher I

think therefore I am it was woman who

taught me to say I am therefore I think

also I would think more therefore I must

be more this is extremely abstract and

metaphysical one

you would stick to the concrete and put

your discoveries in a form of

entertaining anecdotes about your

adventures with women your conversation

would be easier to follow

do you not understand that when I stood

face to face with woman every fiber in

my clear critical brain warned me to

spare her and save myself my moral said

no my conscience said no my chivalry and

my pity for her said no my prudent

regard for myself said no I caught all

those Telltale resemblances to her

father and mother by which I knew what

she'd be like in 30 years time

I noted The Gleam of gold from a dead

tooth in the Laughing mouth I made

Curious observations of the strange

odors of the the chemistry of the nerves

and whilst I was in the act of framing

my excuse to the lady life

sees me and threw me into her arms as a

sailor throws a scrap of fish into the

mouth of a seabird then you might as

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well look clever man you've got more

brains it is good for you but were you

not the happier for your experiences Don

Juan

the wiser yes

that moment introduced me for the first

time to myself and threw myself to the

world I saw them how useless it is to

attempt to impose conditions on the

irresistible force of life to preach

Prudence cattle selection virtue honor

since I took the form of a husband and

12 children what more could you have

done had you been the most abandoned of

women I could have had 12 husbands and

no children that's what I could oh

brother fine you are flawed quilled

annihilate let's face the facts dear

Anna the life force respects marriage

only because marriage is the contrivance

of its own to secure the greatest number

of children and the closest care of them

marriage is the most licentious of human

institutions wow

question of marriage with morality has

done more to destroy the conscience of

the human race than any other single era

and a woman seeking a husband is the

most unscrupulous of all the beasts of

prayer you are a fool Juan no believe me

she only throws away the bait when the

bird is in the net and the man

thought of these recriminations prove

and only that the hero is as gross and

imposter as the heroine it's all

nonsense most marriages are perfectly

comfortable perfectly is a strong

expression Anna what do you mean is that

sensible people make the best of one at

all events let me take an old woman's

privilege again and tell you flatly that

marriage people's the world and

debauchery does not well however time

comes and this shall cease to be true

investment means by which I can have

love beauty romance emotion passion

without their wretched penalties their

expenses their worries their squalling

babies their household cares their

illnesses and agonism risks of death but

all this is realized here Don Juan In My

Kingdom on the contrary here I have

everything that disappointed me without

anything that I've not already tried and

found wanting I tell you that as long as

I can conceive something better than

myself

I cannot be easy unless I am striving to

bring it into existence or clearing the

way for it that's the law of my life

that's the working Within Me of life's

incessant aspiration to higher

organization wider deeper in tensor

self-consciousness and clearer

self-understanding it was the supremacy

of this purpose that reduced love for me

to the mere pleasure of a moment art for

me to the mere schooling of My faculty's

Religion for me to a mere excuse for

laziness since it had set up a God who

looked at the world and saw that it was

good against the Instinct in need that

looked through my eyes at the world and

saw that it could be improved

I tell you

that in the pursuit of my own pleasure

my own health my own fortune I have

never known happiness

it was not love

for a woman that delivered me into her

hands it was fatigue

exhaustion that when I was a child

and bruised my head against a stone I

ran to the nearest woman and cried away

my pain against her apron when I grew up

and bruised my soul against the

brutalities and stupidities with which I

had to strive I did again just what I

had done as a child

I've enjoyed there too my

my rests my recuperations my breathing

time was after strife

but

rather would I be dragged through all

the circles of the foolish Italian's

Inferno than through the pleasures of

Europe that is what has made this place

of Eternal pleasure so deadly to me it

is the absence of this Instinct in you

that makes you that strange monster

called the devil it is the success with

that you have diverted the attention of

men from their real purpose which you

might agree or another is the same as

mine to yours that has earned you the

name of the tempter it is the fact that

they are doing your will or rather

drifting with your want of will that

makes them the uncomfortable false

Restless artificial petulant wretched

creatures they are your flow of words is

simply amazing one

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how I wish I could have talked like that

to my soldiers it is me a talk though

it's all been said before and what

change has it ever made what notice has

the world ever taken of him yes it is

mere talk but why is it me a talk

because my friend Beauty Purity

respectability religion morality art

patriotism bravery and the rest are

nothing but words which I or anyone else

can turn inside out like a glove

Commander are there any beautiful women

in heaven no

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might be men of 50. I'm impatient to get

there

a Frank with you with you were you not

so before

insofar as I went yes but I will now go

further and confess that men get tired

of everything of Heaven no less than

hell and all history it's nothing but a

record of the oscillations of the world

but between those two extremes

an epoch

swing of the pendulum and each

generation thinks the world is always

progressing because

is always moving but when you are as old

as I am and of a thousand times worried

of Heaven like myself and the commander

and a thousand times weary of hell as

you are weary enough you'll no longer

imagine each swing from Heaven to Hell

is an emancipation he'd Swing From Hell

To Heaven an evolution where you now see

reform progress the continual Ascent by

man on the Stepping Stones of his dead

cells to higher things you will see

nothing but an infinite comedy of

Illusion and you will discover the

profound truth of the saying that there

is nothing new Under the Sun

shall a man give up eating because he

destroys his appetite in the act of

gratifying it

is a field Idol when it is fallow

granted that the great life force has

hit upon the device of the clockmaker's

pendulum and uses the Earth for its Bob

that the history of each oscillation

which is so novel to us the actors is

but the history of the last oscillation

repeated name or that in the unthinkable

infinitude of time the sun throws off

the Earth and catches it again a

thousand times as a circus Rider throws

up a ball and that the total of all our

epochs is that the moment between the

toss

and the catch

has the Colossal mechanism no purpose

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you think because you have a purpose

nature must have on you might as well

expect it to have fingers and toes

because you have them but I should not

have them if they serve no purpose and I

my friend it was much a part of nature

as my fingers are part of me if my

finger is the organ by which I grasp the

sword or the mandal in my brain is the

organ by which nature strives to

understand itself where I'm not

possessed with a purpose beyond my own

I'd better be a Plowman than a

philosopher this is because the

philosopher is in the grip

of the life force

the life force says to him

I have done a thousand wonderful things

unconsciously by merely willing to live

and following the line of least

resistance now I want to know myself and

my destination and choose my path what

is you

the use of knowing why to be able to

choose the line of greatest Advantage

instead of yielding in the direction of

the least resistance

does a ship sail to its destination no

better than a log drift wherever

the philosopher is Nature's pilot

and there you have our difference to be

in hell is to drift

to be in heaven

is to steer unto the Rocks most likely

with ship drifts often used onto the

rocks or to the bottom the drifting ship

or the ship with a pilot on board well

well go your way Don Juan I prefer to be

my own Master not the tool of any

plundering Universal Force I know that

beauty is good to look at music's good

to hear love is good to feel and they're

all good to think about and talk about

whatever they say about me in churches

on Earth I know that it is universally

accepted in good society that the Prince

of Darkness is a gentleman and that is

enough for me

as your life force reducing irresistible

it's the most resistible thing on earth

to a person of any character but if you

are naturally vulgar and credulous it's

all reformers are it will thrust you

first into religion where you will

sprinkle water on babies to save their

souls from me then it'll drive you from

religion into science where you will

snatch the babies from the water spring

thing and inoculate them with disease to

save them from Catching it accidentally

and the end will be Despair and

decrepitude broken nerves Shattered

Dreams and oh they regret for that worst

and silliest of waste and sacrifice the

waste and the sacrifice of the power of

enjoyment in a word the punishment of

the fool who pursues the better before

he has secured the good

but at least I shall not be bored the

service of the life force has that

Advantage at all events so farewell send

your Satan very well gone Juan I shallot

them think of our interesting chats I

wish you every happiness Heaven as I

said before it would suit some people

but remember if you ever change your

mind the gates are always open here to

the repentant prodigal if you ever feel

that warmth of heart sincere innocent

enjoyment and warm breathing palpitating

reality

say flesh and blood at once then we've

left those two greasy common places

behind us you throw my friendly farewell

back in my teeth by no means but there's

much to be learned from a cynical devil

I really cannot stand a Sentimental one

Senora your sermon

with you

I can find my own way to heaven Anna

butter

I cannot find yours

annoying senior Commander

you know the way the way to the frontier

of Hell In Heaven be good enough to

direct me oh the frontier is only the

difference between two ways of looking

at things any road will take you across

it if you really want to get there

oh my god wow there he goes

how he does talk

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difficult defeat

I cannot keep these live worship as they

all leave there's something unnatural

about those fellows do not listen to

their gospel Commander it's dangerous

beware the pursuit of a superhuman it

leads to an indiscriminate contempt for

the human to the Superman men and women

are a mere species

now let us Haze into my Palace and

celebrate your arrival with a grand

musical service with pleasure you are

most kind this way Commander we go down

the old trap oh you cannot come this way

it's in your own you'll have an

apotheosis that's not what I stopped you

for tell me where can I find the

Superman he's not yet created I never

will be probably all those red fires

will make me sneeze not yet created

then my work is not yet done

a father

a father for the Superman

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[Music]

look at the movies

did you yes I I forgive what you were in

here so are you amazed I warned you

we're all lost

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two Armored Cars full of police at the

end of the valley the shop was fighting

in the air it was a signal it's not an

escort but an expedition to capture you

we're advised to wait for it but I was

in a hurry oh my good Lord here we are

waiting for him let's take to the

mountain idiot what do you know about

the mountains are you espanol you will

be turned in by the first Shepherd you

saw besides we're already within range

of their rifles and I will deal with

this

I bring that charge against

evening together that's all I gave my

hand to nobody see young man if I am

tried I shall plead guilty you wish the

respectable name of Striker to be

dragged through the mud of his penis

Criminal Court the police would search

me they will find Louise's portraits you

blackmailing swine language Unworthy of

Louisa's brother

but no matter your muscle that is enough

for us

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cool boy certainly it is I said it was

you 10 if we've just been stopped by a

puncture the road is full of nails what

are you doing here with all these people

why did you leave us without a word of

warning I want that bunch of roses Miss

Whitfield but when we found that you

were gone Miss Whitfield bet me a bunch

of roses that my car would not overtake

yours before you reach Monte Carlo but

this is not the road to Monte Carlo no

matter Miss Whitfield tracked you at

every stopping Place she's a regular

Sherlock Holmes threat of Life Force

I'm lost

we're afraid you've been captured by

brigands I I seem to remember the face

of your friend here why so do I I know

you're perfectly well sir but I can't

think where I've met you do you remember

me Madam oh yes quite well but

but stupid about names it wasn't the

Savoy Hotel

user used to come to lunch with this

lady a user often came to dinner with

this lady and her mother on your way to

the theater and a user boy you used to

come to supper with several different

ladies

so what's after you pray right Violet I

thought you hardly knew one another

before this trick you and Miller I

suppose this person was the manager no

Madam the waiter I have a grateful

recollection of you all I gather from

the Bountiful way in which you treated

me that you all enjoyed your visits very

much

I do my friend you don't expect these

ladies to treat you as an acquaintance I

suppose because you waited on them a

table don't bother me but it was you who

claimed my acquaintance the ladies

followed your example however this

display of the unfortunate manners of

your class closes the internet for the

future you will address me with the

respect due to a stranger

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most capable of reasonable

constantively insulting

but they're getting out of their motives

the state is about to crush you because

you spared it at the prompting of the

political Hangers On of the bourgeoisie

the contrary only by capturing the state

machine

politics nothing sounds more respectable

so the European exchange rate

who are these men Senor English

my escort

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s

[Applause]

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young lady oh yeah she said you prefer

to stay here the young lady that's Miss

Violet eh well you know don't you oh do

I

do you want don't you well what business

is that of yours now I'll tell you what

business it is of mine Miss Robinson her

name is Robinson is it thank you why you

don't even know her name yes I do now

that you've told me all right look here

what you mean by getting into my car and

letting me bring you here if you're not

the Gent I took the letter to who else

did you take it to pray I took it to

ector Malone at Miss Robinson's request

see

Robinson is not my

employ to oblige her now I know Mr

Malone and he ain't you but by a long

chalk adioto they told me you were

acting alone Hector Malone actor over

here if you ain't noticed that you soon

will did you take my message yes Miss

I took it to the hotel and set it up

expecting to see young Mr Malone and

then well that walks this gent and says

it's all right and it'll come with me

well so what's the old tell people told

me he was Ecto Malone I fetched him but

now he goes back on what he says but if

this isn't legit you meant say the word

it's easy enough I'll fetching back

again I should have steam it a great

favor if I might have a short

conversation with you madam I am

Hector's father as this bright britisher

would have guessed in the course of

another hour or so no

a bit more up to his Mark so I miss you

want to talk to my Sean and Truth

I am so sorry Mr Malone if that man has

been rude to you but what can we do he's

our chauffeur you needn't apologize for

your man I made him talk on purpose by

doing so I learned that you're staying

here in Granada with a party of English

including my son Hector yes we intended

to go to nice but we had to follow a

rather eccentric member of our party who

started first and came here

where'd you sit down Miss Robinson I

believe yes your note to Hector runs as

follows dearest they have all gone to

the Alhambra for the afternoon I have

shamed headache and have the garden all

to myself jump into Jack's motor Striker

will rattle you here in a jiffy quick

quick you're loving Violet now I don't

know on what terms young people

associate in English society but in

America this note would be considered to

imply a very considerable degree of

affectionate intimacy between the

parties yes I know your son very well Mr

Malone have you any objection no no

objection exactly provided it is

understood that my son is altogether

depended on me and that I have to be

consulted in any important step he may

propose to take I'm sure you would not

be unreasonable with him Mr Malone I

hope not Miss Robinson but at your age

you might think many things unreasonable

that don't seem so to me oh well I

suppose there's no use of playing at

Cross purposes Mr Malone

Hector wants to marry me

I inferred from your note that he might

well miss Robertson he is his own Master

but if he marries you he shall not have

a rap from me and that is not very

complimentary to me Mr Malone I say

nothing against you Miss Robinson I dare

say you are an amiable and excellent

young lady but I have other views for

Hector Hector may not have other views

for himself Mr Malone possibly not than

he does without me that's all I dare say

you're prepared for that when a young

lady writes to a young man to come to

her quick quick quick money seems

nothing and love seems everything I beg

your pardon Mr Malone I do not think

anything so foolish Hector must have

money ah very well very well no doubt he

can work for it what is the use of

having money if you have to work for it

it's all nonsense Mr Malone you must

enable your son to keep up his position

it is his right I should not advise you

to marry him on the strength of that

right Miss Robinson what objection have

you to me pray

my social position is as good as

Hector's to say the least he admits it

you tell him so from time to time eh

Hector's social position in England Miss

Robinson is just what I choose to buy

for him I've made him a fair offer let

him pick out the most historic house

Castle or Abby that England contains the

day he tells me he wants it for a wife

worthy of its Traditions I buy it for

him and given the means of keeping it up

what do you mean by a wife worthy of its

Traditions what kind of tiny woman keeps

such a house for him she must be born to

it Hector was not born to it was he no

his grandmother was a barefooted Irish

girl who nursed me by a Turf fire let

him marry another such and I'll not

stint her marriage portion let him raise

himself socially with my money or raise

somebody else so long as there's a

social Prophet somewhere I regard my

expenditure as Justified but there must

be a prophet for someone

a marriage with you would leave things

just where they are many of My Relations

would object very much to my marrying

the grandson of a common woman Misty

Malone that may be Prejudice but so is

your desire to have him marry a title

Prejudice you seem a pretty

straightforward downright sort of a

young woman I do not see why I should be

made miserably poor because I cannot

make profits for you

why do you want to make Hector unhappy

he'll get over it all right enough men

Thrive better on disappointments in love

than disappointments and money

I dare say you think that's sorted but I

know what I'm talking about English rule

drove my ancestors out of Ireland well

you can keep Ireland me and my like are

coming back to buy England and we'll buy

the best of it I want no middle class

properties and no middle class women for

Hector that's straightforward isn't it

like yourself really Mr Malone I'm

astonished to hear a man of your age in

Good Sense talk in that romantic way I

have the refusal of two of the oldest

family mansions in England they're both

Abby's one historic owner can't afford

to keep all the rooms dusted the other

can't afford the death duties what do

you say now oh well let us talk sense Mr

Malone you must feel that we haven't

been talking since so far I can't say I

do I mean all I say then you don't know

Hector as I do

he is romantic and fatty he gets it from

you my fancy and he wants a certain sort

of wife to take care of him not a fatty

sort of person you know somebody like

you perhaps well yes but you cannot very

well ask me to undertake this with

absolutely no means of keeping up his

position now stop a bit stop a bit where

are we getting to I'm not aware I'm

asking you to undertake anything of

course Mr Malone you can make it very

difficult for me to speak to you if you

choose to misunderstand me I don't wish

to take any unfair Advantage but we seem

to have gotten off the straight tracks

oh how unlucky now Hector please say

nothing go away until I finish speaking

to your father no Violet I mean to have

this thing out right away dad

you've now played this hand straight

what do you mean you've opened a letter

addressed to me you've impersonated me

and stolen a march on this lady that's

dishonorable you take care of what

you're saying Hector you take care I

tell you I have taken care I am taking

care I'm taking care of my honor and my

position your position's been got with

my money do you know that yeah we have

spoiled all that when you open this

letter a letter from a lady not a dress

to you a confidential letter a delicate

letter a private letter opened by my

father don't be unreasonable Hector it

was perfectly natural if Mr Malone to

open my letter his name was on the

envelope there you have no common sense

Hector I thank you Miss Robinson I thank

you too it's very kind of you my father

knows no better Hector although he's

hectoring me a private letters of

later dad you can't get over that I'm

not being talked back to by you do you

hear all right please here they all come

back already the Alhambra is not open

this afternoon is it wise to be out in

this Sunshine with such a hurting

violence have you recovered too Malone

oh I forgot and we have not all met

before Mr when to introduce your father

oh no I will not

he's no father of mine you disown your

dad before your English friends do you

please don't make a scene I'm very sorry

Mr Robinson but I'm contending for a

principle I am a son and I hope a

dutiful one but before everything I'm a

man and when dad treats my private

letters as his own and takes it on

himself to say that I shall marry you if

I am happy and fortunate enough to gain

your consent then I just snap my fingers

and Go My Own Way marry Violet are you

in your senses do you forget what we

told you I don't care what you told me

this is monstrous another madman these

men in love should be locked up I don't

understand this is Hector not good

enough for this lady Pray My Dear Sir

the young lady is married already Hector

knows this city persists in his

infatuation we take him home and lock

him up so this is the Highborn social

tone I've spoiled with my ignorant

uncultivated Behavior making love to a

married woman you picked up that habit

of the British aristocracy have you

it's a full the morality of what I'm

doing well said Malone you also see that

mere marriage laws are not morality I

agree with you unfortunately Violet does

not I take leave to doubt that sir let

me tell you Mrs Robinson or whatever

your right name is you had no right to

send that letter to my son when you were

the wife of another man this is the last

straw dad you have insulted my wife you

your wife you the missing husband

another moral imposter

you've married without my consent you

deliberately humongous here I've had

just about enough of being badgered

Violet and I are married

that's a long and short of it now what

do you got to say huh any of you I know

what I have to say she's married a

beggar no she's married a worker I start

to earn my own living this very

afternoon ah you're very Plucky now

because you got your remittance from me

yesterday or this morning I reckon wait

till it's spent you won't be so full of

cheek there here it is now you just take

your remittance and yourself out of my

life I'm done with remittances and I'm

done with you Hector

you don't know what poverty is well I

wanna know what it is

I want to be a man

Violet you come along with me to your

own home I'll see you through I hope

you'll shake hands with me before you go

Hector I admire and respect you more

than I can say don't be an idiot TV

Hector's about to speak to become a

Workman as you are never fear there's no

danger of him becoming a navi Mrs Malone

there's really no difficulty about

Capital to start with treat me as a

friend draw on me all on me [ __ ] your

dirty money who should he drawn but his

own father

don't be rash my boy I'm sorry for what

I said I never meant to insult Violet I

take it all back she's just the wife you

want there well well that's all right

Dad say no more we're friends again only

I take no money from anybody Hector

don't be hard on me I'd rather you

quarreled and took the money than made

friends and starved you don't know what

the world is I do no no no no

that's fixed it's not going to change

come Mrs Malone you need to move to the

hotel with me and take your proper place

before the world but I must go in

darling and pack won't you go ahead make

them give you a room overlooking the

garden for me I'll join you in half an

hour very well you

'll stay I want you yes yes see you all

later

you'll try to bring him to a census

Violet I know you will I had no idea he

could be so headstrong but if he goes on

like that what can I do don't be

discouraged domestic pressure may be

slow but it's sure

you wear him down promise me you will I

will do my best

of course I think it's the greatest

nonsense deliberately making us poor

like that of course it is you had better

give me the remittance

Hill wanted for his hotel bill I asked

you that I can induce him to accept it

not now of course but presently yes yes

that's just the thing you understand the

there's only a bachelor's allowance oh

quite

thanks

by the way Mr Malone those two houses

you mentioned the Abbeys yes don't take

one of them until I've seen it one never

knows what may be wrong with these

places I won't I'll do nothing without

consulting you first never fear thanks

that will be much the best way

okay

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and that poor fellow is a billionaire

one of the master spirits of the age LED

on a string like a pug dog by the first

girl who takes the trouble to despise

him I wonder will it ever come to that

with me the sooner the better for you

that'll be a grand woman for Hector I

wouldn't exchange her for ten duchesses

it's an unexpected pleasure to find you

in this corner of the world Mr Malone

have you come to buy up the Alhambra

well I don't say I mightn't I think I

could do better with it than the Spanish

government but that's not what I came

about to tell you the truth about a

month ago I overheard a deal between two

men over a bundle of shares they're

different about the price they were

young and greedy and didn't realize that

if the shares were worth what was bid

for them they must be worth what was

asked the margin being too small to be

of any account you seek well to shut

them both up I cut in and bought the

shares

to this day I haven't found out what the

business is the office is in this town

the name is Mendoza limited now whether

Mendoza is a mine a shipping line or a

bank he's a man I know him his

principles are thoroughly commercial let

us take you around the town in our car

Mr Miller and call on him on the way if

you'll be so kind and may I ask you Mr

Roebuck Rams and a very old friend of

your daughter-in-law happy to meet you

Mr Ram thank you Mr Tanner is also one

of our circles glad to know you also Mr

Tanner thanks

TV Violet's father-in-law is a financier

of brighams

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cut me to the heart and by wanting me to

go oh poor Ricky Dicky Tavy poor heart

it belongs to you and

forgive me I must speak of it

I love you

you know I love you what's the good TV

you know that my mother is determined

that I shall marry Jack

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it seems absurd doesn't it do you mean

to tell me that Jack has been urging me

not to marry you because he intends to

marry you himself no no no no no you

mustn't need him to believe that I said

that I don't for a moment think that

Jack knows his own mind but it's clear

from my father's will that he wished me

to marry Jack and my mother is set on it

but you are not bound to sacrifice

yourself always to the wishes of your

parents

well surely their wishes were a better

guide than my own selfishness

I know how unselfish you are and

but is it fair to Jack to marry him if

you do not love him

is it fair to destroy my happiness as

well as your own

if you can

bring yourself to love me

baby my dear you are a nice creature

is that all well that's a great deal I

assure you

you would always worship the grand I

trodden wouldn't you I do

it sounds ridiculous but it's no

exaggeration I do and I always shout

always is a long

alivey

you see I should have

the ways to your idea of my Divinity and

I don't think I could do that if we were

married but

if I marry Jack

you'll never be disillusioned

I can see exactly what will suit you you

must be a Sentimental old Bachelor for

my sake

I'll kill myself I know you won't that

wouldn't be kind

you won't have a bad time you'll go a

good deal to the Opera

a broken heart is a very pleasant

complaint for a man in London if he has

a comfortable income

shall I tell him that you love him oh no

no he'd run away again and would you

marry an unwilling man what a queer

creature you are Davey there's no such

thing as a willing man when you really

go for him

how can you I suppose but you know you

are really getting a sort of

satisfaction already in being out of

danger yourself satisfaction

you say that to me will you have offered

to tell Jack that I love him

that self-sacrifice I suppose

perhaps it's because you're a poet

you'll like the bird that presses its

breast against the sharp Thorn to make

itself sing

it's quite simple

I love you and I want you to be happy

you know you don't love me so I can't

make you happy myself but I can't help

another man to do it you are so

soft-hearted

it's clear how different you should be

from Violet Violet's as hard as Nails no

I'm sure Violet is Thoroughly womanly at

heart why do you say that

is it unwomanly to be thoughtful and

business-like and sensible I have a

great respect for Violet she gets her

own way always without having to make

people sentimental about her but surely

no really nice woman would deliberately

practice on men's instincts in that way

oh Toby Toby Ricky Dicky Toby now I

can't talk anymore

say you forgive me and that the subject

is closed I have nothing to forgive

and the subject is closed

and if the wound is open

at least you shall never see it bleed

poetic to the last Toby oh goodbye my

dear

what's the matter TV are you ill who's

nothing

there's nothing but you're crying is it

about Violet's marriage

who told you about violence I meant

Roebuck and that awful old American are

you sure you're not ill what's the

matter it's nothing

only a man's broken heart doesn't that

sound ridiculous but what is it all

about has Ann been doing anything to you

it's not Anne's fault

and don't for a moment think that I

blame you for what

for nothing I said I didn't blame you

but I

but anything what's the matter what you

guess

oh I dare say you are right to prefer

Jack to me as a husband for him but

I love Anne

and it hurts rather does Anne say that I

wanted a marriage yes she's told me and

I'm very sorry for you Davey it's only

her way of saying that she wants to

marry Jack little she cares what I say

or what I want she would not say it

unless she believed it

but surely you don't suspect Adam

of Deceit well

well mind Davey

it's best for a young man to know too

little like you or too much like Jack

I've disposed of old Malone I've

introduced him to Mendoza limited and

left the two brigands together to talk

it out hello TV anything wrong oh I must

go wash my face I see tell him what you

wish

you may take it from me jackford

and approves of it approves of what of

what Mrs Whitfield wishes this is very

mysterious what is it you wish it shall

be done whatever it is thank

you thank you for me it's no wonder I

don't seem able to care for Anne and

Rhoda as I do for you and Tavy and

violet it's a very queer World it used

to be so straightforward and simple and

now nobody seems to think and feel as

they ought yes life's more complicated

than we used to think but what am I to

do for you that's just what I want to

tell you of course you'll marry Anne

whether I like it myself or not it seems

to me that I shall presently be married

to earn whether I like it myself or not

you know what she is when she has set

her mind on anything but don't put it on

me that's all I ask Davey has just let

out that she's been saying that I am

making I marry you and the poor boy is

breaking his heart about it for he is in

love with her himself though what he

sees in her so wonderful goodness knows

I don't it's no use telling Tavi that

Anne puts things into people's heads by

telling them that I want them when the

thought of them never crossed my mind it

only sets Davey against me but you know

better than that so

if you marry her

don't put the blame on me

I haven't

the slightest intention of marrying her

she'd suit you better than Tavi she'd

meet her match in you jack I'd like to

see her meet her match no man is a match

for a woman I should be a mere slave no

she's afraid of you at all events you

would tell her the truth about herself

she wouldn't be able to slip out of it

as she does with me everybody would call

me a brute if I told Anne the truth

about herself in terms of her own moral

code to begin with and says things that

are not strictly true I'm glad somebody

sees she's not an angel in short to put

it as a husband would put it when

exasperated to the point of speaking out

she's a liar

and since she has plunged Haley head

over ears in love with her without any

intention of marrying him she's a

Coquette according to the standard

definition of a Coquette as a woman who

Rouse his passions she has no intention

of gratifying and as she has now reduced

you to the point of being willing to

sacrifice me at the altar for the mere

satisfaction of getting me to call her a

liar to her face I may conclude that

she's a bully as well she can't bully

him in or she bullies women so she

habitually and unscrupulously uses her

personal Fascination to make men give

her whatever she wants that makes her

almost something for which I know no

polite name what yeah

you can't expect Perfection Jack

you know I don't but what annoys me is

that Anne does I know perfectly well

that all this about hurting a liar and a

bully and a Coquette and so forth is a

trumped-up moral indictment that might

be brought against anybody we all lie we

all Bully as much as we dare we all bid

for admiration without the least

intention of earning it we all get as

much rent as we can out of our powers of

Fascination if Aaron would admit this I

shouldn't quarrel with her but she won't

she'll do just what she likes whilst

insisting on everybody else doing what

the conventional code prescribed in

short I can stand everything except her

confounded hypocrisy that's what beats

me oh she is a hypocrite she is she is

isn't she

well

then why would you want to marry me to

her

course I never thought of it until Davey

told me she said I did but you know I'm

very fond of Davey it's a sort of sun to

me and I don't want him to be trampled

on and made wretched

whereas I don't matter I suppose you are

different somehow I mean you are able to

take care of yourself you'd serve her

out and anyhow she must marry somebody

oh there speaks there speaks to life

Instinct due to test her but you feel

you must get a marriage do you mean that

I detest my own daughter but surely you

don't believe me to be so wicked and

unnatural as that merely because I see

her fall you love her then why of course

I do

as you say Jack we can't help loving our

own blood relations well perhaps it

saves unpleasantness to say so

I'll say things like that Jack I hope

you won't tell em that I've been

speaking to you I only wanted to set

myself right with you and Tavi I

couldn't sit mum and have everything put

on me right so and now I've only made

matters worse TV's angry with me because

I don't worship Anne and when it's been

put into my head that Anne ought to

marry you what can I say except that it

would serve her right

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um thank you

oh silly and twist what I say into

something I don't mean I ought to have

that darling you seem to be having a

delightful chat with Jack we can hear

you all over the place have you heard

another fear and is only well we were

discussing that habit of hers just now

she hasn't heard a word I don't care

whether she

had buy I'm off for my

Violet I have no wedding no breakfast no

clothes not anything it won't be for

long don't let him take you to America

promise me that you won't I should think

not indeed don't cry dear I'm only going

to the hotel nobody I'm going is that

dress with your luggage makes one

realized oh I wish you were my daughter

violence

damn

so I am and will be jealous um

oh fine mother come now you mustn't Cry

Anymore you know Violet doesn't like it

goodbye Jack goodbye Violet the sooner

you get married to the better you will

be much less misunderstood I quite

expect to get married in the course of

the afternoon you all seem to have set

your mind on it

you might do worse

let me take you to the hotel with me to

drive will do you good come in and get a

wrap I don't know

when you are gone with no one but Anne

in the house and she

she occupied with the men it's not to be

expected that your husband will care to

be bothered with an old woman like me

you needn't tell me politeness is all

very well

I know what people

Violet is quite right

you ought to get married

um I will not marry you do you hear I

won't won't won't won't marry you

so that's

it is asking me but everybody treats the

thing that's settled it's in the air

when we meet the others go well absurd

pretext to leave us alone together

ramsden no longer scowls at me his eye

beams as if he were already giving you

away to me in church Davey refers me to

your mother and gives me his Blessing

Henry openly treats you as his future

employer it was he who first told me of

it was that why you ran away yes only to

be stopped by a love sick brigand and

run down like a true and Schoolboy well

if you don't want to be married you

needn't be

does any man want to be hanged

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yet

let themselves behind without a struggle

for life we do the world's will not our

own I have a frightful feeling but I

shall let myself be married because it's

the world's will that you should have a

husband oh I dare say I shall someday

yes but why me me of all men marriage is

to me apostasy profanation of the

sanctuary of my soul

violation of my manhood

sale of my Birthright

shameful surrender

ignominious capitulation

acceptance of defeat

I I shall Decay like a thing that has

served its purpose and is done with I

shall change from a man with a future to

a man with a past

I shall see in the greasy eyes of all

the other husbands their relief at the

arrival of a new prisoner to share their

Witness

the young man will score me as one that

was sold out to the women I who have

always been an enigma and a possibility

shall be mere somebody else's property

and damaged goods at that a secondhand

man at best well you well life can put

on a cap and make yourself ugly to keep

you incontinence like my grandmother so

that she may make her Triumph more

insolent by publicly throwing away the

bait the moment the Trap snaps on the

victim after all though what difference

would it make

beauty is all very well at first sight

but whoever looked at it when it's been

in the house three days I thought our

picture is very lovely When papa bought

them but I haven't looked at them for

years

you never bother about my looks you're

too well used to me I might be the

umbrella stand

you lie

you vampire

you lie

flatterer

why are you trying to fascinate me Jack

if you don't want to marry me

the life force

I'm in the grip of the life force

he's willing can you not be satisfied

unless your prey struggles

Harry what a man who idolizes women who

sees nothing in nature but romantic

sooner if I loved you that's David the

chivalrous the faithful the

tenderhearted and True TV never married

why he was born to be swept up by the

first pair of blue eyes he meets in the

streets I know all the same Jack men

like that always live in comfortable

Bachelor lodgings with broken hearts and

are adored by their landladies and never

get married men like you always get

married

how frightfully horribly true

it's been staring me in the face all my

life and I never saw it before oh it's

the same with women the poetic

temperament is a very nice temperament

very amiable very harmless and poetic I

dare say but it's an Old Maid's

temperament Baron the life force passes

it by if that's what you mean by the

life force yes

you don't care for Tavi no

and you do care for me now Jack Jack

behave yourself

Infamous abandoned woman devil Elephant

Bar constrictor hypocrite I must be for

my future husband's sake come on I mean

for his

yours you had better marry what you call

a hypocrite Jack women who are not

Hypocrites get into all sorts of hot

water and then their husbands get

dragged into and live in continual dread

of fresh complications wouldn't you

prefer a wife you could depend on no a

thousand times no hot water is the

revolutionist element you clean men as

you clean milk Tails by scolding cold

water has its uses too it's healthy oh

you are witty but the Supreme moment the

life force endows you with every

equality well I too can be a hypocrite

your father's will appointed me your

guardian not your Suitor I shall be

faithful to my trust

he asked me who would I have as my

guardian before he made that will

I chose you

the will is yours then

the Trap was laid from the beginning

from the beginning

from our childhood

for both of us

by the life force

I will not marry you I will not marry

you

oh you will

you will I tell you no

no

no

no tell you yes

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yes no

before it's too late for repentance yes

when did all this happen to me before

are we too dreaming no we are awake and

you have said no that is all well

I made a mistake

you do not love me

it is false

it is false

it is false

I love you

the life force enchants me

I have

the whole world in my arms

when I clasp you

but I am fighting for my freedom

for my honor

for myself one and indivisible

your happiness will be worth them all

you would sell freedom and honor and

self for

happiness it will not be all happiness

for me

perhaps death oh that clutch holds and

hurts what have you grasped in me is

there a Father's Heart as well as a

mother's take care Jack if anyone comes

while we are like this you'll have to

marry me if we do if we too stood now on

the edge of a precipice I would hold you

tight and jump

me go I am dead so frightfully it is

lasting longer than I thought let me go

I can't bear it all right let it kill us

I'm at the end of my bosses I don't care

I think I'm going to faint look here

something's the matter with the lady

what does this mean are you ill

sorry

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ladies and gents you don't want to

sprout around us all the air she can get

if you please check no no don't look to

Red Mr Tanner let Life Flat so as the

blood can run back in he's right Mr

Turner thrust to the heir of the Sierra

I yield to your Superior knowledge of

physiology Henry Jack be very happy I

never after it's a trap for me budgies

do some of them a little Brandy it's the

worst thing you could give her you allow

me

thrust to the air of the Sierra

did Jack say anything when I fainted no

um

her pulse is positively bounding come

get up what nonsense up with you yes

now Jack but you very nearly killed me

for all that a rough worry they're the

best sword Miss Whitfield I congratulate

Mr Tanner and hope to see you and him as

frequent guests at the Abbey thank you

oh Ricky Dicky TV congratulate me I want

to make you cry for the last time

no more cheers

empathy in your happiness and I believe

in you in spite of everything you're a

happy man Jack Turner I am to you

sure there are two tragedies in life one

is not to get your hearts desired the

other is to gain it mine and yours Mr

Mendoza I have no Hearts desires rampton

is easy for you to call me a happy man

you're only a spectator I'm one of the

principles and I know better

and stop tempting taping come back to me

you're absurge Jack

I solemnly say that I am not a happy man

and looks happy but she is only

triumphant

successful Victorious that's not

happiness but the price for which the

strong sell their happiness

well we've both done this afternoon is

to renounce happiness renounced Freedom

renounce Tranquility above all renounce

the Romantic possibilities of an unknown

future for the cares of a household and

a family I beg that no man makes ease

the occasion to get half drunk and not

imbecile speeches and cause pleasantries

at my expense we propose to furnish our

own house according to our own taste and

I hereby give notice that the seven or

eight traveling clocks the four or five

dressing cases the salad bowls the

Carvers and fish slices and all the

other articles that you were preparing

to Heap upon us will be instantly sold

and the proceeds devoted to circulating

free copies of the revolutionist

handbook

The wedding will take place three days

after our return to England by special

license at the office of the district

superintendent registrar in the presence

of my solicitor and his clerk who like

his clients will be in ordinary dress

you are in

order of Jack never mind her dear

go on talking

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