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Darkness in the theatre: / Darkness and a multitude / Assembled in the darkness. / These who every day perform / The unique tragi-comedy / Of birth and death; / Now press upon each other, / Directing the irresistible weight of their thoughts to the stage.
A great broad shaft of calcium light / Cleaves, like a stroke of a sword, the darkness: / And, at the end of it, / A tiny spot which is the red nose of a comedian / Marks the goal of the spot-light and the eyes which people the / darkness.