That character is afflicted with a toothache shortly after expressing interest in hearing about neo-Spanish languages.
One character mentions a lover named Father Auguste near the end of this play, and gives another character an armband with political insignia on it when he worries about a set of forty coffins. Another character in this work claims she can count to infinity; when her claim is rejected as impossible, she declares that she can count to sixteen, then correctly multiplies two ten- digit numbers. That character is afflicted with a toothache shortly after expressing interest in hearing about neo-Spanish languages. This play's central male character ignores the Maid's attempts to steer things away from arithmetic and her warning that philology leads to calamity, eventually proving the truth of his own statement "The knife kills." FTP name this Ionesco play in which the Professor kills his Pupil.
One character mentions a lover named Father Auguste near the end of this play, and gives another character an armband with political insignia on it when he worries about a set of forty coffins.
The {Lesson}, A Comic Drama or La {Leçon}