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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Unconscious Comedians by Honore de Balzac: trial of having your head dressed before that of being painted, and so
do certain women. Well, monsieur, my object is to make those who come
here to have their hair cut or frizzed enjoy themselves. (Hold still,
you have a tuft which MUST be conquered.) A Jew proposed to supply me
with Italian cantatrices who, during the interludes, were to depilate
the young men of forty; but they proved to be girls from the
Conservatoire, and music-teachers from the Rue Montmartre. There you
are, monsieur; your head is dressed as that of a man of talent ought
to be. Ossian," he said to the lacquey in livery, "dress monsieur and
show him out. Whose turn next?" he added proudly, gazing round upon
the persons who awaited him.
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