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8 Cards in this Set
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OLD WOMAN: Come my darling, close the window. There's a bad smell from that stagnant water, and besides the mosquitoes are coming in. |
OLD MAN: Leave me alone! |
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OLD WOMAN: Come, come, my darling, come sit down. You shouldn't lean out, you might fall into the water. You know what happened to Francois I. You must be careful. |
OLD MAN: Still more examples from history! Sweetheart, I'm tired of French history. I want to see—the boats on the water making blots in the sunlight. |
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OLD WOMAN: You can't see them, there's no sunlight, it's nighttime, my darling. |
OLD MAN: There are still shadows. [He leans out very far.] |
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OLD WOMAN [pulling him in with all her strength]: Oh! ... you're frightening me, my darling....come sit down, you won't be able to see them come, anyway. There's no use trying. It's dark... |
[The Old Man reluctantly lets himself be pulled in.] OLD MAN: I wanted to see—you know how much I love to see the water. |
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OLD WOMAN: How can you, my darling? ...It makes me dizzy. Ah! this house, this island, I can't get used to it. Water all around us ...water under the windows, stretching as far as the horizon.
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OLD MAN: It's six o'clock in the evening...it is dark already. It wasn't like this before. Surely you remember, there was still daylight at nine o'clock in the evening, at ten o'clock, at midnight.
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OLD WOMAN: Come to think of it, that's very true. What a remarkable memory you have!
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OLD MAN: Things have certainly changed.
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OLD WOMAN: Why is that, do you think?
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OLD MAN: I don't know, Semiramis, sweetheart...Perhaps it's because the further one goes, the deeper one sinks. It's because the earth keeps turning around, around, around, around...
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OLD WOMAN: Around, around, my little pet. [Silence.] Ah! yes, you've certainly a fine intellect. You are very gifted, my darling. You could have been head president, head king, or even head doctor, or head general, if you had wanted to, if only you'd had a little ambition in life...
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OLD MAN: What good would that have done us? We'd not have lived any better. ..and besides, we have a position here. I am a general, in any case, of the house, since I am the general factotum.
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