{"id":117,"date":"2012-03-22T03:30:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T03:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gentlemantranslator.com\/?p=117"},"modified":"2012-03-22T03:31:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T03:31:05","slug":"the-violet-day-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gentlemantranslator.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/22\/the-violet-day-13\/","title":{"rendered":"The Violet, Day 13"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Director.<\/span> By all means! He takes off his coat.<\/em> I’ll sit here at the table like a clerk … look, here are some big owlish eyeglasses, I put them on, so. And I put on old Uncle Skult\u00e9ti’s shabby coat, so. Puts on a shabby J\u00f3zsef Ferenc coat, which fits him badly.<\/em> And his arm protectors as well. So! And I sit here, I remain next to you. I am that old Uncle Skult\u00e9ti, half clerk, half servant. He gestures at the writing table.<\/em> And you are the managing director. To the servant.<\/em> Well, J\u00e1nos, what do you say to this?<\/p>\n

Servant.<\/span> It’s an immoral business.<\/p>\n

Director.<\/span> J\u00e1nos does not like it. Nevertheless I’m curious about your method. Now you can demonstrate it!<\/p>\n

Composer<\/span> with fire and ambition.<\/em> I will demonstrate it. Just as a clever women can keep indiscretion far from herself, merely by her conduct, so can a clever gentleman …<\/p>\n

Director.<\/span> No more philosophizing, let us see the practice. Kindly sit there. I stipulate one condition: if a woman starts to perch on your shoulder, you throw her out at once. Since I can’t bear to watch.<\/p>\n

Composer.<\/span> Naturally. That’s the art: to prevent this!<\/p>\n

Director.<\/span> Just so. Now you shall see how it is. But just in case you’re softened after it happens …<\/p>\n

Composer.<\/span> God save me. Is it your notion that I’m afraid of my wife? But if they don’t make love to me, then I may sign them to a contract.<\/p>\n

Director.<\/span> By all means.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Three pages tonight, bringing me up to the halfway point: thirty-eight pages out of seventy-five. As you can see, we’ve reached the point in the story where the train is about to plunge off the tracks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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