Behind the Beyond - Stephen Leacock
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What happens in the opening of the problem play?
Perustin pyöräilyvaatteita valmistavan ornotin vuonna 2013. Mielestäni parasta Shopifessa on se, että voimme harjoittaa liiketoimintaa ilman teknistä osaamista. Voimme hallinnoida yrityksen taustajärjestelmiä ja frontendiä sekä myydä verkossa. Vaivatta, jos Shopify olisi pyöräilyvaruste, se olisi mielestäni itse polkupyörä. Sillä asiat hoidetaan ja meidän liiketoimintamme hoituu Shopifessa. Alita ilmainen kokeilu shopify.com-sivustolla.
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Perustin pyöräilyvaatteita valmistavan ornotin vuonna 2013. Mielestäni parasta Shopifeessa on se, että voimme harjoittaa liiketoimintaa ilman teknistä osaamista. Voimme hallinnoida yrityksen taustajärjestelmiä ja frontendiä sekä myydä verkossa. Vaivatta, jos Shopify olisi pyäilyvaruste, se olisi mielestäni itse polkupyörä. Sillä asiat hoidetaan ja meidän liiketoimintamme hoituu Shopifessa. Aloita ilmainen kokeilu shopify.com-sivustolla.
Chapter one of Behind the Beyond This is a Librivox recording. All Librivox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit librax dot org Behind the Beyond by Stephen Leacox Chapter one Behind the beyond Act one. The curtain rises, disclosing the ushers of the theatre still moving up and down the aisles. Cries of program are heard. There is a buzz of brilliant conversation, illuminated with flashes of opera glasses and the rattle of expensive jewelry. Then suddenly, almost unexpectedly, in fact, just as if done, so to speak, by machinery, the lights all over the theater except on the stage are extinguished. Absolute silence falls. Here and there is heard the crackle of a shirt front, but there is no other sound.
In this expectant hush, a man in a Czech tweed suit walks on the stage. Only one man, one single man. Because if he had been accompanied by a chorus, that would have been a burlesque. If four citizens in Togas had been with him, that would have been Shakespeare. If two Russian soldiers had walked after him, that would have been melodrama. But this is none of these this is a problem play. So he steps in alone, all alone, and with that absolute finish of step, that ability to walk as if how can one express it, as if he were walking, that betrays the finished actor. He has, in fact, barely had time to lay down his silk hat when he is completely betrayed. You can see that he is a finished actor, finished about fifteen years ago.
He lays the hat, hollow side up, on the silk hat table on the stage right centre. Bearing north north east half a point west from the red mica fire on the stage which warms the theater. All this is done very, very quietly, very impressively. No one in the theatre has ever seen a man lay a silk hat on a table before. And so there is a breathless hush. Then he takes off his gloves one by one, not two or three at a time, and lays them in his hat. The expectancy is almost painful. If he had thrown his gloves into the mica fire, it would have been a relief, but he doesn't. The man on the stage picks up a pile of letters from the letter department of the hat table. There are a great many of these letters because all his business correspondence, as well as his private letters, are sent here by the general post office.
Getting his letters in this way at night, he is able to read them like lightning. Some of them he merely holds upside down for a fraction of a second. Then at last he speaks, it has become absolutely necessary, or he wouldn't do it.
So Sao Paulo risen too Hmm. Rio Tinto down again. More be anxious. Better sell for half a million sterling.
Hm Did you hear that? Half a million sterling, and he takes it just as quietly as that.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What happens in the opening of the problem play?
0:00–34:34
2
How does the mysterious letter trigger the crisis between Sir John and Lady Cicily?
34:34–1:20:41
3
What happens at the end of Chapter 5?
1:20:41–1:54:11
4
How does the barber’s story develop in Chapter 6?
1:54:11–2:46:54
5
What is the first Parisian pastime described in Chapter 7?
2:46:54–3:07:14
6
How does the second Parisian pastime unfold in Chapter 8?
3:07:14–3:19:42