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He, unlike one of his friends, Viviani,
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who took lessons at the comdie-Franaise,
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and practiced them--
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there used to be, one of my colleagues
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used to practice his lectures in one of the parking lots,
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and he'd look at himself in the mirror, these rearview mirrors;
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and I don't know why I thought of that.
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But, anyway, Jaurès was not like that,
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he was just a brilliant speaker,
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he was born being able to speak.
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And he could take his crowd on dizzying verbal flights.
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And the thing he could do