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Mister Leeds is the mysterious American owner of an exhibit at the Kiapo Fair, which he claims is a talking head retrieved from Egypt. After the head and its tale of revenge—strikingly similar to Ibarra’s story—sends Father Salví into a panic, Mister Leeds disappears for Hong Kong before the government can ban his show. Whether Mister Leeds’s head is a coincidence or part of Simoun’s plot, however, is left unclear.
Mister Leeds Quotes in El Filibusterismo
The El Filibusterismo quotes below are all either spoken by Mister Leeds or refer to Mister Leeds. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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18. Sleights
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“O,” it said, shaking disconsolately, “I loved a young woman, the daughter of a priest, pure as light, as a just-opened lotus flower. The young priest of Abydos coveted her as well and plotted a mutiny using my name and several papyruses I had dedicated to my beloved. The mutiny unfolded just as a furious Cambyses returned from the disasters of his unfortunate campaign. I was branded a rebel and imprisoned. When I was able to escape, during the pursuit I died in Lake Moeris. From eternity I watched as imposture triumphed, I saw as the priest of Abydos pursued the poor virgin day and night, even after she had taken refuge in a temple of Isis on the Island of Philoe. I saw him pursue her and hunt her down even into the caverns, drive her mad from terror and suffering, like a giant bat and a white dove.”
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Mister Leeds Quotes in El Filibusterismo
The El Filibusterismo quotes below are all either spoken by Mister Leeds or refer to Mister Leeds. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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18. Sleights
Quotes
“O,” it said, shaking disconsolately, “I loved a young woman, the daughter of a priest, pure as light, as a just-opened lotus flower. The young priest of Abydos coveted her as well and plotted a mutiny using my name and several papyruses I had dedicated to my beloved. The mutiny unfolded just as a furious Cambyses returned from the disasters of his unfortunate campaign. I was branded a rebel and imprisoned. When I was able to escape, during the pursuit I died in Lake Moeris. From eternity I watched as imposture triumphed, I saw as the priest of Abydos pursued the poor virgin day and night, even after she had taken refuge in a temple of Isis on the Island of Philoe. I saw him pursue her and hunt her down even into the caverns, drive her mad from terror and suffering, like a giant bat and a white dove.”
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