“One enters the Konigstater Theater. One takes one’s seat in the first tier of boxes; for here there are relatively few people, and when one is to see a farce one must be seated at one’s ease, without feeling in the remotest way embarrassed by the solemn pretense of art which causes many to let themselves be jammed into a theater to see a play as if it were a question of their eternal salvation. The air in this theater is also fairly pure, not contaminated by the sweat of an audience moved by sensibility to art, or by the finer emanations of art connoisseurs. In the first tier of boxes one can be fairly sure of getting a box by oneself.”
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~Source: Repetition (1843)
Author: Søren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Constantin Constantius
The Kierkegaarden 