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As the six characters drag the Manager and his Actors into the second act of their story, the Manager and the Characters get into another argument about reality and theatrical illusion; as the characters watch the actors attempt to portray them, they balk at their superficial performances, prompting the Father to tell the director that they are more real than they are, even though they have been abandoned, half-finished, by their original author.
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THE MANAGER (determining to make fun of him). Ah, excellent! Then you'll be saying next that you, with this comedy of yours that you brought here to act, are truer and more real than I am.
THE FATHER (with the greatest seriousness). But of course; without doubt!
THE MANAGER. Ah, really?
THE FATHER. Why, I thought you'd understand that from the beginning.
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