But it won't work if we let ourselves be pawed and patronized and petted by the people who have marveled. What we offer is innocent-just an entertainment in which a hungry part of the spirit is fed. Didn't anybody learn anything from the war? Hitler said, 'Marvel at me, wonder at me, I can do what others can't'-and they fell over themselves to do it. They will pay to do it, if you make it good and marvelous for them. People want to marvel at something, and the whole spirit of our time is not to let them do it. 'To be wondered at.' This is not egotism.

Look at the magicians who appear in night clubs they are so anxious to be loved, to have everybody think 'What a funny fellow,' instead of 'What a brilliant fellow, what a mysterious fellow.' That is the disease of all entertainment: love me pet me, pat my head. 'You remarked that we did not smile much in the performance no jokes, really. When he was fifty he meets mysterious magician Eisengrim. And I didn't know what in the world I could do about it. We looked into each other's eyes and I knew that he was afraid, and I knew also that he would fight, lie, do anything rather than admit what I knew. 'And it's what you'd better think too, if you know what's good for you.' Robertson Davies Fifth Business Audiobook Free. 'Do you mean to say that's what you think?' I said. I could tell by the frank boldness of his tone that he was lying. 'I threw a snowball at you, ' he replied, ' and it gave you a good smack.' 'Did it?' said he, looking me straight in the eyes. I did not at once speak of the birth of Paul, but I crept up on the subject and was astonished to hear him say, 'Yes, my Pa says McCausland has his hands full with that one.' When next I met him after that bad afternoon, we approached each other warily, as boys do after a quarrel, and he seemed disposed to talk. When he was a boy, his friend and enemy Percy Boyd Staunton hits the minister's wife in the head with a snowball, leading to her collapse and premature delivery of her son, Paul.

Fifth Business (1970), rich, and elegantly written, is the life story of Dunstan Ramsay.

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