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[in rapt admiration].
- Peer Gynt! Allegoric! I might have foreseen it.-
- Peer Gynt? That must clearly imply: The Unknown,-
- the Comer whose coming was foretold to me-
PEER
- What, really? And now you are here to meet-?
BEGRIFFENFELDT
- Peer Gynt! Profound! Enigmatic! Incisive!
- Each word, as it were, an abysmal lesson!
- What are you?
PEER [modestly].
- I've always endeavoured to be
- myself. For the rest, here's my passport, you see.
BEGRIFFENFELDT
- Again that mysterious word at the bottom.
- [Seizes him by the wrist.]
- To Cairo! The Interpreters' Kaiser is found!
PEER
- Kaiser?
BEGRIFFENFELDT
- Come on!
PEER
- Am I really known-?
BEGRIFFENFELDT [dragging him away].
- The Interpreters' Kaiser-on the basis of Self!
