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That is the question: in English in the original, echoing Hamlet's «To be, or not to be, that is the question» (Shakespeare, Hamlet III.1). ↩
In English in the original: Marie copies a passage from Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes (1835), about the 14th-century Roman tribune Cola di Rienzo: the passage says that the truly great man, like a star, shines for itself, «conscious of its own glory, and contented, therefore, to be alone» (text checked against Project Gutenberg #1396). The words marked [illisible] are the edition's marks for words it could not read; «anxioux» (for anxious) is as printed. ↩
Cap de Diou!: an Occitan oath, literally «God's head!» (cf. Gascon cadediu, «cap de Diu»; source: Escòla Gaston Febus, «Les jurons, spécialité gasconne ?»); Marie picks it up from the Nice milieu (that attribution is the editors' inference). ↩