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Act 1I is the act of anger; I address violent reproaches to
the absent one: "All the same, he (she) could have .. . "
"He (she) knows perfectly well .. . " Oh, if she (he)
could be here, so that I could reproach her (him) for not
being here! In Act In, I attain to (I obtain?) anxiety in
the pure state: the anxiety of abandonment; I have just
shifted in a second from absence to death; the other is as
if dead: explosion of grief: I am internally livid. That is
the play; it can be shortened by the other's arrival; if the
other arrives in Act I, the greeting is calm; if the other
arrives in Act 11, there is a "scene"; if in Act II, there is
recognition, the action of grace: I breathe deeply, like
Pelleas emerging from the unde