Kebs, Sol, thank you. Holding as best I can.

September, well done. It is indeed a giant log.

And as he (or I) said to Roxanne: "Happy who falls, cut off by a hero, with an honest sword through his heart!" I am quoting from myself. Fate will have his laugh at us! Here am I killed, in a trap, from behind, by a lackey with a log! Nothing could be completer! In my whole life I shall have not had anything I wanted. Not even a decent death!

That's, of course, the moment when Roxanne realizes Cyrano is mortally wounded and thus begins my favorite (near) monologue in dramatic history.

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