Livy: [just before the curtain raises] You're a magician, Boris. To have produced all this in three weeks, and from nothing.
Lermontov: My dear Livy, not even the best magician in the world can produce a rabbit out of a hat if there is not already a rabbit in the hat.
Lermontov: My dear Livy, not even the best magician in the world can produce a rabbit out of a hat if there is not already a rabbit in the hat.
Livy : [just before the curtain raises] You're a magician, Boris. To have produced all this in three weeks, and from nothing.
Lermontov : My dear Livy, not even the best magician in the world can produce a rabbit out of a hat if there is not already a rabbit in the hat.
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