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Название книги: World of Wonders
Автор(ы): Robertson Davies
Жанр: Классическая проза
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/World-of-Wonders-159768.html
I. A Bottle in the Smoke
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“Of course he was a charming man. A delightful person. Who has ever questioned it? But not a great magician.”“By what standard do you judge?”“Myself. Who else?”“You consider yourself a greater magician than Robert-Houdin?”“Certainly. He was a fine illusionist But what is that? A man who depends on a lot of contraptions—mechanical devices, dockwork, mirrors, and such things. Haven’t we been working with that sort of rubbish for almost a week? Who made it? Who reproduced that Patissier du Palais-Royal we’ve been fiddling about with all day? I did. I’m the only man in the world who could do it. The more I see of it the more I despise it.”“But it is delightful! When the little baker brings out his bonbons, his patisseries, his croissants, his glasses of port and Marsala, all at the word of command, I almost weep with pleasure! It is the most moving reminiscence of the spirit of the age of Louis Philippe! And you admit that you have reproduced it precisely as it was first m
Название книги: World of Wonders
Автор(ы): Robertson Davies
Жанр: Классическая проза
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/World-of-Wonders-159768.html
I. A Bottle in the Smoke
1
“Of course he was a charming man. A delightful person. Who has ever questioned it? But not a great magician.”“By what standard do you judge?”“Myself. Who else?”“You consider yourself a greater magician than Robert-Houdin?”“Certainly. He was a fine illusionist But what is that? A man who depends on a lot of contraptions—mechanical devices, dockwork, mirrors, and such things. Haven’t we been working with that sort of rubbish for almost a week? Who made it? Who reproduced that Patissier du Palais-Royal we’ve been fiddling about with all day? I did. I’m the only man in the world who could do it. The more I see of it the more I despise it.”“But it is delightful! When the little baker brings out his bonbons, his patisseries, his croissants, his glasses of port and Marsala, all at the word of command, I almost weep with pleasure! It is the most moving reminiscence of the spirit of the age of Louis Philippe! And you admit that you have reproduced it precisely as it was first m
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