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    Botany Lesson
    Botany Lesson
    Botany Lesson
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    Botany Lesson

    By Machado de Assis

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    Baron Sigismundo de Kernoberg, a single Swede of thirty-nine, wedded to science alone, suddenly finds himself roped into giving botany lessons to a neighbor's lovely young niece.

    Translated from Portuguese (Brazil) by Juan LePuen
    Genre: theater
    Length: 6,900 words

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFario
    Release dateOct 19, 2012
    ISBN9781301638086
    Botany Lesson
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    Machado de Assis

    Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (Rio de Janeiro, 21 de junho de 1839 Rio de Janeiro, 29 de setembro de 1908) foi um escritor brasileiro, considerado por muitos críticos, estudiosos, escritores e leitores o maior nome da literatura brasileira.

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      Botany Lesson - Machado de Assis

      Botany Lesson

      Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

      Translated by Juan LePuen

      First published as Lição de Botânica (1906)

      English translation copyright 2012 Juan LePuen and Fario

      Published at Smashwords by Fario

      Contents

      Dramatis Personae

      Botany Lesson

      Translator’s Notes

      More from Fario

      Dramatis Personae

      Dona Helena

      Dona Leonor

      Dona Cecília

      Baron Sigismundo de Kernoberg

      A play in one act.

      The action takes place in Andaraí.

      Botany Lesson

      The parlor in Dona Leonor’s house. Doors, one of them stage right, in the back

      SCENE ONE

      Dona Leonor, Dona Helena, Dona Cecília

      Dona Leonor enters, reading a letter; Dona Helena and Dona Cecília come in from the back.

      DONA HELENA. Already back?

      DONA CECÍLIA (to Dona Helena, after a brief silence). Could it be some love letter?

      DONA HELENA (in a whisper). Child!

      DONA LEONOR. Are you two not going to tell me what this is?

      DONA HELENA. What is it?

      DONA LEONOR. When I alit from the carriage I got this note: My lady: Allow the most respectful neighbor to ask you for ten minutes of your attention. It is in the interest of science. What do I have to do with science?

      DONA HELENA. But who is the letter from?

      DONA LEONOR. Baron Sigismundo de Kernoberg.

      DONA CECÍLIA. Ah, Henrique’s uncle.

      DONA LEONOR. Henrique’s? What liberties you’re taking!

      DONA CECÍLIA. Aunt Leonor, I. . . .

      DONA LEONOR. I what? . . . Henrique!

      DONA HELENA. It was a way of speaking, while he’s not here. So Baron Sigismundo de Kernoberg is asking you for ten minutes of your attention in the name of and for love of science. From a botanist that’s definitely a pastoral poem.

      DONA LEONOR. Whatever it may be, I don’t know if we should receive a gentleman we have never seen. Have you ever seen him?

      DONA CECÍLIA. I haven’t.

      DONA HELENA. Neither have I.

      DONA LEONOR. Botanist and Swedish: two reasons to be seriously annoyed. Nothing, I’m not home.

      DONA CECÍLIA. But who knows, Aunt Leonor, if he wants to

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