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is just a little dream in it, and the right world is Wide-Wide-Wide-Wake-
World. My lover calls me little Lola Wide-awake, not Lola Daydream any
more. But it is always Lola, because I am the Key of Delights. I never told
you about the first two houses, and really you wouldn t understand. But the
Second House is gray, because the light and dark flash by so quick it s all Domus II v.
Sapienta
blended into one; and in it lives my lover, and that s all I care about.
The First House is so brilliant that you can t think; and there, too, is my Domus I v.
Corona Summa
lover and I when we are one. You wouldn t understand that either. And the
last thing I shall say is that one begins to see that there isn t really quite a
Wide-Wide-Wide-Wake-World till the Serpent outside has finished eating up
his tail, and I don t really and truly understand that myself. But it doesn t
matter; what you must do is first to find the Fairy Prince to come and ride
away with you, so don t bother about the Serpent yet. That s all.
Explicit Opusculum
in
Capitulo Quarto
vel
de Collegio Summo.
CONTAINING AN ESSAY ON
tma
ALI SLOPER; OR, THE FORTY LIARS
A CHRISTMAS DIVERSION
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ
(With suggestions for cast)
ALI SLOPER (aged 120 years) . . . Mr Christian Rosenkreutz.
BONES ( Greatly Honoured Frater
C.C.R. ) . . . . . . Mr. W..d..n Gr..ssm..th.
Mr. ..sc..r ..sch.. or
BABY BONES (aged fifteen months) . .
{ Miss L..c..l.. H..ll.
BOWLEY ( Greatly Honoured Frater
N.L. ) . . . . . . . Miss L..ly Br..yt..n.
IMAGINARY CHAIRMAN, WAITS, ETC. . Any imaginary actors.
DR. WAISTCOAT S FAMOUS TROUPE OF PANTOMIMISTS ( THE FORTY LIARS ):
Whitehead . . . . . Equilibrist.
Din and Doni . . . . Knockabouts.
Daath . . . . . . Sensation Baby.
Nehushtan . . . . . Serpentine Dancer.
The Ales (Ralph, Mike, and
Sam) . . . . . Serio-Comics.
Lucy Furr and Florrie Farr . Egyptian Duettists.
THE MYSTERIOUS MATHERS in his great sketch, THE FAMILY VAULT
(Mr. Mathers will borrow any required properties from the audience.)
I reside on Abiegnus, and my name is Flodden James.
I am not up to small deceits or any sinful games:
And I ll tell in simple language what I know about the bounder
That broke up our Society and also broke the founder!
The Clippers . . . . . Eccentrics.
Happy Hal Barthe with Tim
Urah and Ike Baker . . Quick Change Artists.
Le Marbre . . . . . Lightning Calculator
Mac and Mic . . . . Face Artists
KONX OM PAX
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THE YONLY YEATS.
What are Yeats?
Berridge and his Magic Clasp.
Mo Locke and Bill Feegur . . Serios.
Miss Schnarr . . . . Diseuse.
Shaddai L. Hye in his great songs:
The Yonisuckle and the Bee.
New every morning is the love.
Hire a member, hire a member.
How s that for Hye? and
LINGAM LONGER, LUCY.
Dr. Jellinek . . . . . Contortionist.
Barry Ether . . . . . Society Reciter.
La Chic Ina . . . . . In her famous
GLORY SONG.
Harry Canpin The India-rubbed-faced Man.
May Imm . The only genuine Mermaid exhibiting
The
Constance Sylphide, the living skeleton, in her songs I m the
Freaks.
Empress of Rosher, etc.
Tabicat . . The Horny Man from Mazawattee.
Supermen . and other supers.
Nogah . . The little bit of sweet-stuff.
Lieber Herr Gott with his trained beasts; includes the Unicorn from
the Stars, only one in Europe.
Adam Cadman Low Comic.
The Terrible Tetragrammaton
Græco-Jewish Wrestler.
GRAND PATRIOTIC SPECTACLE
Warlike Preparations General Eloah arrives from Temain of Edom Colonel
Holiun summoned from Mount Paran The Wilderness of Seir The Tents of
Cushan A Dervish stronghold General Tetragrammaton s flying column
City of Meroz I.V. desert in a body A traitor in the camp? Melchizek Pasha s
cunning move The river Kishon sweeps away the Moabites (by Mr. Frank
Parker) Battle at last Desperate stand of the Kings of Edom Marshal Jah s
flank attack Everlasting Mountains scattered Perpetual Hills bowed (by Mr.
Frank Parker) Charge of the gallant Karnaim Rout of the Edomites The
Dukes in full flight And Grand Finale Blowing up of the Tower of Babel (by
Mr. Frank Parker).
GOD SAVE THE KING.
ALI SLOPER; OR, THE FORTY LIARS
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SCENE
Practicable Drawing-room littered with innumerable sheets of double Elephant
Whatman paper, about to be an impracticable Table of Correspondences. A
roaring fire. Sofas and Chairs.
In presenting this play before a British audience, the Manager should come
forward and say: Ladies and Gentlemen, owing to the severe indisposition of
the Author, no obscene jests will be found to occur in the dialogue of this play.
The actors have, however, been instructed to pause and wink at frequent
intervals, when you are at liberty to imagine an unusually profound and
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