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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!