SCHIMMELPFENNIG
Very well! Don't exert yourself! You've probably changed in all this long
time. And why not? It needn't be entirely a disadvantage. A little bit of
humour couldn't harm you. I don't see why one must look at all things in
that damnably serious way.
LOTH
I take things more seriously than ever. [_He gets up and walks up and
down with SCHIMMELPFENNIG, always keeping slightly behind the latter._]
You can't possibly know, and I can't possibly explain to you, what this
thing means to me.
DR. SCHIMMELPFENNIG
Hm!
LOTH
Man, you have no notion of the condition I'm in. One doesn't know it by
simply longing for it. If one did, one would simply go mad with yearning.
DR. SCHIMMELPFENNIG
Let the devil try to understand how you fellows come by this senseless
yearning.
LOTH
You're not safe against an attack yourself yet.
DR. SCHIMMELPFENNIG
I'd like to see that!
LOTH
You talk as a blind man would of colour.
DR. SCHIMMELPFENNIG
I wouldn't give a farthing for that bit of intoxication. Ridiculous! And
to build a life-long union on such a foundation. I'd rather trust a heap
of shifting sand.
LOTH
Intoxication! Pshaw! To call it that is simply to show your utter
blindness to it.
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