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WD_076/ 2004 ( Satoshi Kinoshita )
Series: | Works on paper: Drawings | Medium: | crayon on paper | Size (inches): | 11.5 x 8.2 | Size (mm): | 297 x 210 | Catalog #: | WD_076 | Description: | Signed, date and copyright in pencil on the reverse.
CECILY: I can't understand how you are here at all. Uncle Jack won't be back till Monday afternoon.
ALGERNON: That is a great disappointment. I am obliged to go up by the first train on Monday morning. I have a business appointment that I am anxious . . . to miss?
CECILY: Couldn't you miss it anywhere but in London?
ALGERNON: No: the appointment is in London.
CECILY: Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life, but still I think you had better wait till Uncle Jack arrives. I know he wants to speak to you about your emigrating.
ALGERNON: About my what?
CECILY: Your emigrating. He has gone up to buy your outfit.
ALGERNON: I certainly wouldn't let Jack buy my outfit. He has no taste in neckties at all.
CECILY: I don't think you will require neckties. Uncle Jack is sending you to Australia.
ALGERNON: Australia! I'd sooner die.
CECILY: Well, he said at dinner on Wednesday night, that you would have to choose between this world, the next world, and Australia.
ALGERNON: Oh, well! The accounts I have received of Australia and the next world, are not particularly encouraging. This world is good enough for me, cousin Cecily.
CECILY: Yes, but are you good enough for it?
ALGERNON: I'm afraid I'm not that. That is why I want you to reform me. You might make that your mission, if you don't mind, cousin Cecily.
CECILY: I'm afraid I've no time, this afternoon.
ALGERNON: Well, would you mind my reforming myself this afternoon?
CECILY: It is rather Quixotic of you. But I think you should try.
ALGERNON: I will. I feel better already.
CECILY: You are looking a little worse.
ALGERNON: That is because I am hungry.
-From "The Importance of Being Earnest" (1895) by Oscar Wilde
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