Famous Quotes / Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce: "OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes. All acting is simulation, and the word _simulation_ is from _simia_, an ape; but in opera the actor takes for his model _Simia audibilis_ (or _Pithecanthropos stentor_) -- the ape that howls.
The actor apes a man -- at least in shape;
The opera performer apes and ape."
Acting | Actor | Another | Apes |
Attitudes | Audibilis | Gestures | Howls |
Inhabitants | Least | Life | Model |
Motions | Opera | Performer | Pithecanthropos |
Play | Postures | Representing | Shape |
Simia | Simulation | Song | Speech |
Stentor | Takes | Whose | Word |
World |