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.She said, ‘The only thing I didn’t like dear was all those old women sitting outside their houses dressed in black.’ Don’t you think we might go on holiday?VALERY.I don’t know.DI.We could go for a week in Majorca.VALERY.I want to go home.DI.I’m seriously considering postponing Harvard.VALERY.How can we?DI.We can do what we like.VALERY.They’re busy men.They’ve got other work to do.DI.They’re not unique, Valery.You are.VALERY.I don’t want to go to Harvard.DI.Two weeks in Majorca.VALERY.I’d miss the children too much.DI.We’ll take the children.You can have two weeks in Majorca with your husband and children without me, if that’s what you want.VALERY.He couldn’t take a holiday this time of year.DI.You and the children then.You and me and the children.VALERY.Do be quiet.DI.You’re just exhausted, that’s all.VALERY.All the people.Were they given their money back?DI.If they ask for it.But they’re not asking because it was for charity.And anyway they did see you, you did try, it’s not as if they didn’t see anything.People enjoy watching things go wrong.VALERY.We can’t afford a holiday, Di, because I won’t be earning any more.DI.Of course you will.VALERY.No, I’m finished.DI.You just need a rest.VALERY.No.DI.You’ll have a complete medical tomorrow.VALERY.I’m not ill.I’m perfectly normal.I just can’t do it any more.DI.Of course you can.VALERY.No I can’t.DI.All right, you’re finished, it’s over.VALERY.Do you think so?DI.I don’t know, do I? It could be.VALERY.I’m just tired.DI.Maybe.VALERY.I shouldn’t have talked so much.DI.You think it was that?VALERY.I’ve stayed up all night and still moved things.I lifted a table three feet into the air when I was drunk without spilling a glass.DI.Look Valery, don’t start feeling sorry for yourself.If you think you’re tired, then take a rest.Do whatever you need to get it working again and never mind the expense, it’s an investment.This is our whole living at stake.VALERY.All right then.We’ll take a holiday.Then we’ll go to Harvard.DI.Postpone Harvard?VALERY.A week?DI.Two weeks.VALERY.What about the tour? What about all the bookings?DI.Look I’m the manager, will you leave me to manage? I’m not panicking.I’m not saying it can’t be done.Just get well as fast as you fucking can.VALERY.I’m not ill.DI.Get working.VALERY.I’m going to, my God, I miss once and you start acting like this.You’d still be in the shirt department if I hadn’t let you be my manager.You can’t move objects with your mind.You don’t understand anything at all about it.You’re nothing.I can always get another manager.DI.If you can still do it, Valery, you can have ten managers tomorrow.On the other hand if you can’t do it, there’s nothing to manage, you’re the one who’s nothing.I’ve had considerable experience this year, I’ve got considerable contacts, I can always get other clients.I can start an agency.VALERY.Of course I can still do it.It’s just because it was in the open air.I can’t concentrate in the sunshine.DI.I always knew you wouldn’t last but I thought you’d last longer than this.VALERY.You’re fired.DI.You’re not a job any more, there’s nothing to be fired from.You never really wanted to succeed.You’re frightened of it.You’d rather be sorry for yourself, it’s what you’re used to.You don’t want to go to America, you’re not up to it, you’re just little Mrs Blair that’s all, you want to go home to your family and make the tea, and a few half-days in Marks and Spencer’s.But I’m a businesswoman.I’m on my way.And if you’re not going up any more I’ll find someone who is, because there’s plenty of them.VALERY.It wasn’t about that.It was something I could do in my mind and now I can’t.Unless I still can.I’ll wait and see.I’ll find out in the end.DI.Valery.Why don’t you just nudge that teacup and see if it goes?VALERY.No.DI.Go on.VALERY.I don’t want to.DI.If you can’t it wouldn’t make things any worse.And if you can, then –VALERY.I don’t want to try.DI.I’m sorry for what I said.VALERY.Never mind.I expect I started it.DI.I.won’t really leave you.VALERY.I don’t want you to.DI.That’s all right then.VALERY.Well it’s not, is it?DI.Everyone’s entitled to an off day.VALERY.It’s not the first time.It’s been getting worse.DI.It is the first time.VALERY.It’s the first time in public.DI.You might have said.If I make bookings I’m saying this is something good, I’m going to look foolish.VALERY.So that’s why I’m frightened.DI.I won’t leave you.VALERY.Not yet you won’t, just in case.But you will after.DI.You know something we could do.If you could just make it through Harvard so you’ve got your scientific guarantee, and then for the tour maybe we could find some way of working it.VALERY.Working it?DI.Fixing it.No, well, I didn’t think you’d leap at that.Shall we go home?VALERY.Go away, will you?DI.I’ll be in the car.VALERY.I’m getting a train.DI.Don’t sulk, Valery.VALERY.I’ll see you tomorrow.DI.Have you got enough money on you?DI goes.CLIFF enters.CLIFF.My first reaction was just to slink off.And then I thought, well everybody’s just going to have slunk off and maybe you’d feel better if someone – anyway you only have to say and I’ll …VALERY.It’s very nice of you to bother.CLIFF.It’s a kind of hard situation to know what to say in.VALERY.I’m sorry I let you down.CLIFF.No no, I’m sorry, I mean you must feel terrible.I know I feel terrible.But I’ve been thinking and you know what it is, it’s just embarrassment.It was just appallingly embarrassing.Like when I was six I went to the bathroom in my pants in the museum and everyone was saying, What’s this awful smell? So I joined in, I said, What’s this awful smell? And then some of this shit ran down my leg and made this trail behind me on the floor of the museum, and one of the kids saw it and they all said, What’s that? And I joined in, I said What’s that guck on the floor? And they all knew it was me, and I knew they knew it was me, and I still said, What’s that on the floor? That was my previous most embarrassing moment.But embarrassment’s nothing really.You’ll go on and do it fine and land rockets on the moon and your name will go down in all history books and statues to you in public places with pigeons on and people calling their babies Valery.VALERY.If I can’t do it any more, I won’t have this tour in America or anything.I won’t have people coming round after to see me.CLIFF.You’re still the person who did it before.You’re still Flash Gordon.VALERY.Not if I can’t do it.CLIFF.But if you did it before, even if you’d only done it once, there’s bound to be other people.It’s not a matter of you, it’s a matter of human potential.I guess you’re not too interested in human potential this afternoon.VALERY.I don’t know if you still want my autograph.CLIFF.Of course, yes please.Really, I was going to ask you.VALERY.Best wishes to – ?CLIFF.Cliff.VALERY.Cliff.There.Thank you.CLIFF.Thank you.Look there’s a story I thought about while I was watching you struggling away.I don’t know if you can stand Chinese wisdom.There was this man and all the seagulls came down round him and lit on his head and his hands every time he went down on the beach.And one day his father was very sick, and he said to his son, Go down on the beach and get me a seagull, I’m lying here in bed and I’d really like to see a seagull.So his son goes down on the beach and not one seagull comes near him.I wonder if that’s relevant at all.VALERY.I don’t see what it has to do with the Chinese.CLIFF.I mean whether it’s doing it for money, or doing it when you’re bored with it, or doing it in laboratories, or doing it when you want to too much, or whether it’s just packed up like somebody going blind.The fact that you can’t do it is in a way just as interesting as the fact that you could do it.Somebody could do a whole study about what causes these things not to happen.VALERY [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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