Comic figure

Drugger is also an easy victim, relatively modest in his demands. A naive and comic figure, we can laugh at him with superiority and condescension. Face acts to raise his contribution while Subtle plays the part of the man who is indifferent to money. 

The space occupied by paper-made articles, e.g. parachute, flags, comic figures etc., is roughly calculated as follows ... 

The balloon or comic figure is made as follows Cut the paper in sections by following a pattern. Sew the pieces of the paper together. Crumble it soft and fit it with weight at the edge of the air hole. This is folded like the flag in order to charge it into a shell. Fig.6 shows examples. 

It would be hard to find a clearer proof of epitaxial attachment. In the end of these considerations of epitaxial attachment, one is left with a certain appreciation for the comic figure of a befuddled man standing in the rain with a large ring of keys and trying to open his front door. When the right key (molecule) is found for the particular door (substrate), the result is most gratifying. 

Moliere and his successors and the Parisian Italian theatre integrated the humble comic figure into cast and plot as personal servant, producing new stock figures of valet and soubrette. When, some decades later, in J.E. Schlegel s Demokritus, ein Todtengesprach, 1741, Regnard (1655-1709) is asked why in his play Demokritus takes his servant Strabo into exile with him, he replies,... 

Metzger, p. 65, points out that if one takes Lisette together with Oronte, also a comic figure, they have between them nearly half the lines of the play and dominate six of the ten scenes, their lively language also a counterbalance to the stiffness and long-windedness of the other characters (p. 58). 

From the seventeenth until well into the nineteenth century there was a tendency for actors to be type-cast, particularly in the case of the comic figure. On the usual basic ensemble (five men, three women, and two extra of each), see Herbert Frenzel, p. 236, and Michael, p. 59. 

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