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‘I tell you, you must die, I tell you, I tell you,’ and thusly and so beneath a moon of alabaster until a loud cry crossed the night, ‘To the devil with your tunes,’ the words hanging crystalline in the iced white night, ‘in the movies you only mimed to playback singers, so spare me these infernal noises now.’
»I tell you, you must die, I tell you, I tell you«, und dergleichen mehr unter einem Mond von Alabaster, bis ein lauter Ruf die Nacht durchschnitt: »Zum Teufel mit deinen Liedern«, kristallklar hingen die Worte in der eisweißen Nacht, »im Film hast du nur zum Playback die Lippen bewegt, verschon mich also jetzt mit diesem infernalischen Geschrei.«
He comes from a Quaker family and will even, when he’s tired, slip into the Quaker habit of tongue. I tell thee, Guilford… “This city,”
Er stammt aus einer Quäkerfamilie und verfällt, wenn er müde ist, sogar in die Sprache der Bibel: I tell thee, Guilford… »Diese Stadt«, grübelte Sullivan.
And then to think of those among men who will know that I love them, though I tell them not.” Sometimes I get an urge like that. To become a philosopher, renounce all the trivialities of life and “want but little.”
And then I think of those among men who will know that I love them, though I tell them not.‹ (…) Manchmal bekomme ich solche Lust, eine Philosophin zu sein, die Banalitäten des Lebens abzulegen und ›want but little‹.
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