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 ding him back].
 * I meant like an eel;-
 * it was not like a fox. A needle through his eye;-
 * and he writhed on the wall-

PEER
 * Where can rescue be found!

BEGRIFFENFELDT
 * A snick round his neck, and whip! out of his skin!

PEER
 * He's raving! He's utterly out of his wits!

BEGRIFFENFELDT
 * Now it's patent, and can't be dissimulated,
 * that this from-himself-going must have for result
 * a complete revolution by sea and land.
 * The persons one hitherto reckoned as mad,
 * you see, became normal last night at eleven,
 * accordant with Reason in its newest phase.
 * And more, if the matter be rightly regarded,
 * it's patent that, at the aforementioned hour,
 * the sane folks, so called, began forthwith to rave.

PEER
 * You mentioned the hour, sir, my time is but scant-

BEGRIFFENFELDT
 * Your time, did you say? There you jog my remembrance!
 * [Opens a door and calls out.]
 * Come forth all! The time that shall be is proclaimed!
 * Reason is dead and gone; long live Peer Gynt!