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the theatre, out of sheer curiosity, for purely snobbish reasons, for the sake of showing off their clothes, or for meeting their friends and acquaintances. But I believe that they attend first nights because they are driven to them by an unconscious and perverse cruelty. They attend them so that they may gloat voluptuously over the stage fright of the actors, the author’s suffering and the

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