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we all got tickets to The Truth finally we thought finally when the curtain fell away our indrawn breaths could be heard even in the next theater even the gasp of the mime who had slipped in among us a loud whushing like reams of litter whirling upward in a gale hands shot to mouths and mouths fell open I couldn’t say within how many seconds all our minds shut some slamming others just a click like 300 parallel rows of tipped dominoes a racket of almost unison believe me we wouldn’t have resisted anything but the truth so instantly and universally yet we sat there and waited for something else which you could say we also got if you count the mime’s unpleasant remark so she wasn’t even a real mime probably part of what was clearly just a performance