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Karel Čapek, Josef Čapek
'And So Ad Infinitum' (The Life of the Insects)
An Entomological Review, in Three Acts, a Prologue and an Epilogue
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4066338072993
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PROLOGUE
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The Tramp is discovered, stretched out in sleep; a bottle at his side. Butterflies flutter across the scene.
Enter a Lepidopterist with a net.
Lepidopterist. There they go, there they go! Fine specimens! Apatura Iris—tura Clythia—light-blue butterflies and the Painted Lady. Wait a minute—I’ll get you! That’s just it—they won’t wait, the silly creatures. Off again.... Hullo—somebody here. They’re settling on him. Now! Carefully. Slowly. Tiptoe! One, two, three!
[A butterfly settles on the tip of the Tramp’s nose. The Lepidopterist makes a dab with his net.
Tramp. ‘Ullo! What yer doin’? Ketchin’ butterflies?
Lepidopterist. Don’t move! Careful now! They’re settling again. Funny creatures—they’ll settle on mud, on any sort of garbage, and now they’re settling on you.