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Scene 1 · Intermediate
De spiegel van de boosaardige tovenaar
The wicked magician's mirror
Dutch
Luister, ons verhaal begint! Hopelijk weten we aan het einde meer dan nu. Er was eens een bijzonder boosaardige tovenaar. Hij was verrukt over een spiegel die hij zelf had gemaakt. Alles wat goed en mooi was, werd daarin bijna onzichtbaar, terwijl lelijke en nutteloze dingen tienmaal erger leken dan ze werkelijk waren.
English translation
Listen, our story begins! Hopefully, by the end we'll know more than we do now. Once upon a time there was a very wicked wizard. He was delighted with a mirror he had made himself. Everything good and beautiful became almost invisible in it, while ugly and useless things looked ten times worse than they really were.
Dutch
Prachtige landschappen zagen eruit als gekookte spinazie. Zelfs de knapste mensen kregen zulke verwrongen gezichten dat hun vrienden hen niet zouden herkennen. Een enkele sproet leek zich over iemands hele neus en mond te verspreiden. En zodra iemand iets goeds of vrooms dacht, verscheen er een rimpel in de spiegel.
English translation
Beautiful landscapes looked like cooked spinach. Even the most handsome people had such twisted faces that their friends wouldn’t recognize them. A single freckle seemed to spread across someone’s whole nose and mouth. And as soon as anyone thought something good or pious, a wrinkle appeared in the mirror.
Dutch
De tovenaar grinnikte om zijn slimme uitvinding. De leerlingen van zijn toverschool vertelden overal hoe wonderlijk de spiegel was. Volgens hen kon je de wereld en haar bewoners daardoor eindelijk zien zoals ze echt waren.
English translation
The wizard chuckled at his clever invention. The students at his school of magic told everyone how wonderful the mirror was. They said it finally let you see the world and its people as they really were.
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