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It’s always a disguise of a sort and it’s always a revelation of a sort.
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The quote says that every way of showing something also changes how it is seen. A disguise hides or alters part of the truth, while a revelation makes another part visible. Even when something is presented indirectly, the presentation still reveals something about it. Hiding and showing happen at the same time.
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A seventeen-year-old usher hears a different rhythm beneath every part of the old theater. His first solo falters, but the building teaches him that a performance can belong to many hands.
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