FALK
(med et smil).
Jeg råber, som Montanus:
Jorden er flak, Messieurs; – mig skuffed øjet;
flak, som et fladbrød; – er I nu fornøjet!
(går raskt ud til højre.)
FALK [smiling].I cry, like old Montanus,
1
The earth is flat, Messieurs;--by optics lied;
Flat as a pancake--are you satisfied?
[Goes quickly out to the right.]
1. Like Old Montanus. The hero of Holberg’s comedy Erasmus Montanus, who returns from foreign travel to his native parish with the discovery that the world is not flat. Public indignation is aroused, and Montanus finds it expedient to announce that his eyes had deceived him, that “the world is flat, gentlemen.”
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