Excerpt from Hassan: The Story of Hassan of Bagdad, and How He Came to Make the Golden Journey to Samarkand, a Play in Five Acts
A room "behind the shop" in old Bagdad. In the background a large caldron steaming, for the shop is a sweet-stuff shop and the sugar is boiling. The room has little furniture beyond a carpet, old but unexpectedly choice, and some Persian hangings (geometrical designs, with crude animals and some verses from the Koran hand-printed on linen). A ramshackle wooden partition in one corner shuts off from the living room what appears to be the shop.
Squatting on the carpet - facing each other:
Hassan, the Confectioner, 45, rotund, moustache, turban, greasy grey dress.
Selim, his friend, young, vulgarly handsome, gaudily clothed.
Hassan
(Rocking on his mat) Eywallah, Eywallah.
Selim
Thirty-seven times have you made the same remark, O father of repetition.
Hassan
(More dolefully than ever) Eywallah, Eywallah!
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