"THE TÓTH FAMILY (WELCOME LORD MAJOR)" "István Örkény's "The Tóth Family" adapted to the screen by Fábri Zoltán" "Somewhere in the north of Hungary, scattered between pine-groves in the lap of the mountains there is a little village" "Far from everything." "It's air is clean and rich thus many tourists drop by, to whom the locals rent out rooms on a weekly regime." "In this place, where silence and peacefulness reigned, hasn't been a fire for a long time, take an example lived a communal fireman called Tóth Lajos." "As he walked the high street everybody greeted him upfront surrounded by an all-pervasive respect due to his friendly nature, and stately posture." "He would have the head-seat at weddings" "One seeked his council if one wanted to reposition his stove." "In case of fatalities the coroner was called as soon as he adjudjed his visitation." " He suffered enough." "Tóth lived an exemplary family life." "His wife, Mariska, not that she simply loved him, but felt so compelled by his superiority, that she obeyed to the blink of an eye." " It could have stang my darling for Ágika, everything that shone beauty in this world, was his father." "The glide of a swallow" " Oh, my God how beautiful." "Just like dad." "The chocolate melting in the mouth" " So good!" "Like my dad." "The dizziness felt when looking at a rose" " Dad." "Curiously the fireman had another admirer from the village." "Since the postman was called in at the beginning of the war" "Gyuri delivered the letters handling them with slight impunity considering the secrecy of letters with a passion to deliver the truth from his specific point of view." "Yes, he was a bit balmy but not dangerously" "Dogs were the main victims of this short-tempered doodle" "He used to irritate Alsatians with superstitious hatred" "But then he adored Tóth Lajos he was literally in love with him gazing at his pictures for hours when he got into the parlour" "In Gyuri's perspective Toth stood for human simmetry thus the superlative of dignity hence he admired him." "Wartime bad news never arrived due to his infatuation" "Curiously when good news was deemed to arrive..." "Uncle Lajos!" "Ount Mariska!" "Mail!" "Good news!" "Ágika, my glasses!" "Show me Gyuri!" "Ágika!" " Here you go!" "Dear parents and Ágika!" "I'm letting you know, that the condition of our beloved lord major the one I told you so much about already is getting bootsy thanks to the repeated harrasment of the partisans so he'll travell home for 2 weeks of rest" "I managed to persuade him to resort to the kind hospitality of my parents go on Ágika... what turned out to be difficult, as he would not want to inconvenience anybody in his present condition" "Hear, Lajos?" "I do, do I?" "I described the climatic benefits, our beautiful glassy porch and the splendid view, and imagine that our lord accepted the invitation." "You may think what this means to me" "Dear Lord!" "Gyula's commander is coming!" "A glass of wine for the postman!" "Come on, Gyuri boy!" "7 pictures of Gyula were hanging on the Tóth parlour's wall" "All vacationers had to admire these." "This, when he was 8 months old." "He always spat rice pudding all over the place." "Was born blond, but at 1 his hair turned black." "This was quite amazing for everybody" "He's 7 on this picture." "Mom's telling that there was a lot of trouble with him." "I was not yet born by then" "I appeared next autumn." "This is when he graduated to scout." "He went to a summer camp once." "He got dysentery." "Well, we got frightened very much then." "This is his high school graduation picture." "He finished pedagogy with merits." "And, what can you tell?" "He turned blonde again." "This is the memory of an excursion here." "Brought his class home on a sunday in may, two years ago." "Not a hint of cherry was left on the trees." "Gyula with Erzsi, they had to get engaged before he filed in." "Allegedly because they crawled under the piano and..." "Erzsike's father sensing some snuffle crawled after them but why has this been a reason to get engaged?" "I can't really get it." "This, when he promoted to officer." "The uniform suited him just like his father." "There is no child like this" "My son." "My only good..." "little son." "Our beloved major - and don't get alarmed- does not tolerate ado, and tends to be very sensitive regarding certain odours." "What smell could it be, that he can't tolerate?" "That's it..." "Gyula didn't approach it in detail" "Don't worry Mr. Tóth, this shit-house won't smell for 5 years to come" "Uncle Lajos!" "Ount Mariska!" "He arrives the day after tomorrow he's keen on a tidy place" "And... the tally-ho got underway" "Even 100 hands would have been insufficient and the number of things one had to think of, that were not at hand ...Chinese patterned bedspread had to be procured from the Kasztriner family." "Be serious!" "A major." "A major!" "A major is coming to the Tóth's!" "And how does it come?" "He is our Gyula's commander." "Sakes!" "Electric bed-warmer from parson Tomaji." "Come on, don't tell me sweetie, a major?" " He's coming to stay a fortnight?" " Just imagine it!" "." "Huge, my little girl." "Very big." "Uncle Lajos!" "Ount Mariska!" "Silence is needed!" "He suffers from insomnia!" "The bus driver had to be informed of the reason, why he must not honk for 2 weeks, in the bend" "And on top of it that godforsaken habit of Gyuri" "There is not a major who can take it" "Gyuri, my son." "Promis me, not to annoy that dog till Gyula's commander is with us." "Gyula's life is at stake." "There is nothing I wouldn't do for your's, Lord Tóth." "That dog won't bark for 2 weeks, I promise." " Well... to the health of dear Gyula." " Thank you, my son." "On the last day Ágika took off early in the morning with a smal game cart and while the game cart got filled with borrowed things" "Ágika fell into the centre of public interest and envy they made her recite the big event over and over" "They were offering all the goodies." "She was virtually celebrated" "As Ágika got increasingly into fantasizing about the major, the major gradually became more tempting and turned out to resemble her father more and more" "Just as tall." "Just as stately." "exactly as dad's steady pace" "And brave and gallant!" "And he does not have a purse." "He carries dough in his pocket like little dumplings." "On paytime rolls a bullet in front, so everybody knows who they are dealing with" "The soldiers worship him." "When they hear his name the reds and partisans flee into the forrest in panic" "A hero!" " A major!" "a major!" " A military officer!" "a military officer!" "He's coming..." "Daddy!" "The Tóth family had an idea." "They imagined a tall, skinny major, twinkling and scintillating his sword ringing, his spur twanging." "They were looking for a major like that" "There he is." "It's him." "Whoo, this is only a lieutenant." " Mom!" " My son!" "Look at that, the Melcsó child" " He's grown a beard" " He got off" "Daddy, he did not come" "Would he be it?" "Major lord!" "Major lord!" "Please!" "We are the Tóth family" "The kind Tóth family, finally" "Mr. Tóth, right?" "Mariska and she's Ági" "Accept our warm welcome dear lord major and wish you a pleasent stay in our modest home." "Very kind" "Say Tóth, is it possible to silence this uproar?" "!" "Stop it!" "Yeah, this wonderful air, this silence" "Believe me, after 9 months of service in continuous noise and fetor..." " What did I just say?" " Time spent in noise and fetidity..." "That's right." "I can't believe that I'm home" "Altough I already know everything as your dear son mentioned" "That's Bábony... the valley of Bartalapos kind Tóth, what's behind my back?" "Only the Klein beer garden and the parsonage" "Good." "I have a single request..." "behave as if I wouldn't be here" "I told your son right away" "Only if I'm not a tax on..." "Is something wrong behind my back?" "Nothing, dear major lord" "You'r always looking there" "I'm just looking at your's respectable" "Look..." "It is enough that a part of the world lies behind one's back" "Why culminate this problem by incessantly gazing there?" "Did I say something strange?" "Did I not express myself clearly?" "On the contrary" "Watch out a bit, dear Lajos" " Well, where should I look?" " No, no, no... you look were you want to look" "I told you..." "I do not have extra wishes, claims, nothing." " Can I say something?" "If he would pull his helmet slightly onto his eyes then it would be irrelevant where he points his gaze" " Congratulations!" "Your daughter is clever" "The regulation of the County Fireman Organisation specifies:" "the vertical axis of the fireman's body and the horizontal axis of the helmet have to define a 90 degree angle" "Of course Tóth Lajos is not the kind of man, who thinks of paragraphs in such crucial moments" "But if the postman, the orchestra are here, gaping children, is a fire chief allowed to risk his authority?" " Do you expect me to walk around with my helmet bent like a drunken carter?" " No, no,..." "I would not accept it" "Please consider my request pointless" "I walk away right at the instance my presence turns to discomfort you" " You'r being selfish." "...you do not think about the cold, the famishing russian winter and... the wind will blow" " And the partisans will arrive" " knife in their belt, knife in their mouth." " And what will happen to our Gyula?" " Daddy..." " My sweet good Lajos!" "Is it ok now... major lord?" "That's it... one could not dream of anything better, dear Tóth" "If a snake devours itself (a curio), does the vacuum of its being persist?" " Hello Lajos!" " Here comes the fire chief!" " Hurray the fire chief!" " Dad, don't scream for God's sake!" " Hurray fire chief!" " Shut up!" "And the major lord!" "Hurray major lord!" "It is not necessary to bolster me." "Stop!" "Airplane!" "Get down!" "He's sleeping." "Go away." "Go children!" "Go!" "You to." "Major lord!" "Major lord!" "Major lord!" "The decay of my nervous system, mainly a consequence of the partisans' constant harassment." "May not burden my kind hosts." "Let's go." "When they got home the major was barely standing" "He tolerated helplessly as the hosts undressed him." "be washed by tender hands his whole body dried throughout nursed, coddled dressed in pyjamas, layed in bed." "He slept in faint unconsciousness by the time he was tucked in." "Around 6 p. m." "Mariska and Ágika were still washing and ironing" "They were puting his things in order" "Tóth could not keep the prying souls at distance." " Not so good, that his lying on his heart" "He presses on it." "What a correct small foot he's got!" " It is a very normal foot." " I did not say, that it is not normal." " Not that, but you were derogating it." " Me, derogating it?" " You!" " I was just wondering, that a human foot can be like this." "How so?" "I said nothing bad, that's a very normal and... healthy foot." " Do not try to be clever!" "All majors have got feet like that." "Very bad, he's lying on his heart." "He moved, sat up." " Good bye!" " Bye!" " Who was it?" "Parson Tomaji" "Do you know him?" " Of course" " Nobody can be trusted" "I usually keep my gun under my pillow." "If he enters again, be so kind Mariska and shoot him." " But of course, major lord" " I feel like a different man, dear Tóth!" "I slept well" "Although I had bad dreams, but I still feel like new" " We're very happy, major" " And this air, this silence, not a hiss or a clatter" " Like black velvet, a guest of ours described it as such" " Yeah!" "That's it preciselly!" "Like black velvet" "Lõrinc's condition was provoked by an unfortunate railway shunting" " Rest a piece, major!" " Sándor!" "What's with that knocking?" " What should I do Lajos?" "It is this itching." "This rotten plaster sits since 4 weeks on me, it's itching like hell" " Well, then go inside or behind the house" " Can't I do what I please in my own yard?" " Gyula's life is at stake, don't make such a fuss" " Listen to that..." " Did you dismiss him?" " Yes" " Wrong" "I've told you, pay no regard to me" "This pine smell, this ozone!" "You can't imagine what this means to me." "After 9 months of service exposed to intolerable noise and stink..." "I can't tell, how glad I am about your kind invitation." "So are we." "Terrifiing to think of what you may have suffered on the front." "My Gyula, poor son." "It is not necessary to be worried about him." "I take him by my side as soon as the cold season begins, in the well heated battalion office." "Kind major lord." "Do you hear this, sweet Lajos?" "How can we show our gratitude?" "I am the one who owns you thanksgiving, for your warm hospitality" "In all conscience I was like a hunted beast." "Be at ease." "Your Gyula will be safe by my side." "He loved that tiny, limping child the most." "That's why he took him by his side." "Though he wasn't to clever" "To your dear Gyula's health, then." " Thank you very much." " Thank you very much, major lord." " Good night!" " Good night!" " We wish you a good night, dear major." " Good night!" "What a precious human being." "By God, how fortunate our Gyula is." " Right, my dear Lajos?" " Precious!" "Precious!" "Sweetie!" "Sugar." "He did not go to bed yet." "Look." "He's strolling." "How firmly he walks." "Just like dad." "Soldier." "A military officer." "He takes Gyula by his side." "He caught sunstroke on his first excursion." "Nobody caught it, but he." "His fever got to 40 degrees by evening." "He's got a problem with me only." "Oh daddy, that dumb helmet." "No, not only the helmet." "He keeps his eyes incessantly on me." "It looks as though he doesn't approve of something." " Cocerning yourself?" " Aha." "Everybody adores you." "Don't worry, just let him unbend himself, wait till he puts on some weight." "Did you see that he served twice from the chicken?" "Well... what's true, stays true." "Ow, mother, mother, sweet mother why did you leave me!" " What is it?" "Was somebody wounded?" "Nothing, dear major." "It seemed as if I have heard a groan." "Well..." "I was it." "As if somebody would have kept recalling his mother." "Well... it's just a kind of bad habit." "I like stretching out and then..." "I moan." "So?" "I am really glad about it." "How antsy a person." "Do you wonder why?" "100 mortal dangers every day, 9 months of continuous noise and stink." "Well... true, is true." "Let's go, let us go to bed, we've had enough for today." " What was that?" "Who's there?" "Stop!" "Who are you?" " Major lord." " Beautiful evening." " Yes." "Evenings are the most beautiful around here." "It's not so hot at this hour." "And the blinding?" "Ow, oh my God!" "Don't bother yourselfs, go to bed." "I'm a lousy sleeper." "Well, not at all." "It's only appropiate that we wait till the major retires to bed to." "Why is this girl so sly?" "It's impossible to get used to it." "What an idea under the piano." "Ow, Gyula." "It's hot in here after all." "Open the door a bit, Ágika." "So what's new, dear Tóth?" "How do you feel?" "Very well, thank you major." "I envy you, you have a fortunate temper." "Say Tóth!" "Would you play a game of chess?" "Major, I'm really sorry, but I don't know how." "What do you say to a card game?" "I'm very ashamed major, I'm not familiar with cards." "Then we play domino." "As things stand major, I'm not familiar with any kind of game of parlour." "Tell me onestly." "As you're sitting here on this beautiful night with your wife and daughter, don't you miss something?" "Only my cherry-pipe, I lost it somewhere, unfortunately." "I didn't think of tangible assets." "I would like to lead you up to the harmful effects of the lack of activity." "Don't you quite conprehend it?" "Look at it this way." "In a dark room even the smallest sound rings like multiplied." "Idleness has a similar influence on the organism as darkness on the hearing organs." "Intensifies the inner rustles, causes dazzles in the field of sight, brings about a murmur in the brain." "I with my soldiers, if there is nothing to do," "I have them cut off and sew back their trouser buttons." "By this they regain their spiritual balance." "I hope now you understand what I intended before." "If the majors buttons would come off we would sew it back right away." "You misunderstood my words completely." "Indulge me." "Can I say something?" "It's quite clear to me, major and believe me we don't sit by idly." "What do you do?" "This time in the evening, if there's nothing else to do, we fold up boxes." "What boxes?" "I show it immediately." "The increasing production rates of The Sanitas Bandage Factory of Eger, due to war conditions couldn't be handled by the factory's sole automat" "Thus the families got to do a little housework" "The cardboards were supplied by the factory" "It was necessary to cut it up according gage... and to chop and fold up." "They used a cutter botched up by Tóth from some board pieces and a kitchen knife," "Similarly to the devices that photographers and binders use, of course, in a somewhat naiver version." "Like this." "Like this." "And ready." "Great!" "Well this is great!" "Why didn't you say something?" "Pardon, my Mariska." "Which side shall we start on?" "Below or above, all the same." "One." "Two." " Now from there." " Three." " Now this." " Four." "Very good." "Now like this." "So." "Now that." "Great." "Ready." "Come on." "What's it like?" "Beautiful." "I haven't seen one like this before." "New cardboards, Ágika!" "Wow, not that." "Out of the question for our dearest guest to humiliate himself with such low-class work." "Don't spare me now, Mariska, at last that I feel good." "Cardboards, Ágika!" "Here you go." "If it really stands at the major's leisure" "Blessed hands he's got." "He does it more nicely, than mom or me." "Wow." "So quickly." "One is prettier than the other." "And the kind lord Tóth?" "Does he not join us?" " Me?" " Daddy?" "My kind dad?" "I... no" "Why?" "What, that I sit over there?" "I don't possess the required skills" "Could it be, dear Tóth, that you consider the activity derogatory?" "No." "But... a major lord..." "can afford himself a lot." "That if i would do, and the news would spread in the village" "Don't tell me more, dear Tóth." "It's quite clear." "You scorn this work and ruin others' joy to." "I am sorry that I was a burden." "I'll leave tomorrow with the first coach." "The Tóth family implored they pleaded to him." "They were asserting, that he misuntestood the case" "Since nothing happened, that could have hurt him." "This can't be anything, but a terrible misunderstanding." "They nurture the sole desire of humouring him." "Let's forget the whole thing, dear Tóth." " Maybe I carry a mistake." " No." "I misunderstood your behaviour." "I wish it never happens again" "It should never occur again, yours respectable." "Well, it did not turn out to nicely." "No problem." "That's not important." "Beauty arrives to, but its time has to come" "The important thing is that we are here." "We are together." "Our hands are moving." "Time goes by." "How do you feel?" "Very well, very good." "Really very well." "However, the Tóth family was not used to stay up late." "2-3 hours later signs of weariness were beginning to show on them and curiously the otherwise disciplined Tóth was affected the most." "Of course that's understandable." "Since usually at this hour he would have shifted positions in bed." "Well, this work is simply fascinating." "I can't tell how much I'm enjoying it." "I know now, this will aid me to full recovery." "I wish it would be like that." "We would be most pleased, major." "Are you not tired?" "I hope you'll speak up if so" "To sleep... and what else?" "Working alongside the major is such a joy." "Somehow I feel the same" "By choice I would carry on into the morning." "Tell me, dear Tóth." "Where is he?" "Excuse me." "It fell down." "Is there some kind of a paint in the house?" " Paint?" " Yes." "This environment is dull." "Can't you see?" "It's growing drowsy." "Do you know what I had made with the sentry boxes in the barracks?" "I had them painted in red, yellow, blue." "Into the boards I had tacks beaten so it wouldn't be possible to lean against them." "What's your opinion?" "Interesting." "Should we paint the walls?" "Everything." "It doesn't matter." "Let us continue." "Let the hand move." "He was crying when he cut his spick-and-span sock," "How did it come to me to strike an 8 months old." "I don't know if I mentioned it, but when I left Gyula walked me to the station." " Really?" " That's right." "I've become attached to that child quite a bit." "We took a bath, and then had a beer in the canteen." "Oh my sweet god." "Do you hear this, my sweet good Lajos?" "I do." "What happened?" "I yawned." "It's best if I pack and leave." "I think, it wasn't me who was wrong." "I asked, are you not sleepy." "But, he's not sleepy, respectable major lord." "Why did he yawn then?" "Why did you yawn Lajos?" "I don't know." "Just like that." "Just like that?" "Did you yawn because you'r feeling good?" "Yes, major lord." "Please believe him major, it is quite like that" "Please make a statement, dear Tóth." "What would you do now the most?" " May I be honest?" " Of course." "Well..." "I would now by choice..." "I would bend boxes a littlebit more." "Yes?" " And you, Mariska?" " I too." " Ágika?" " I too, of course" "If you insist that much..." "I don't mind." "I'm only asking you, let this never happen again." "No." "Never again." "Nevermore." "No." "No." "Believe us." "How can you think of me like that, major?" "Towards dawn Mariska's limbs started becoming stiff." "Ágika was refreshed" "Tóth was in the worst state." "His brain rumbled." "His sensory organs stopped working." "He hallucinated." "Dawn has come." "I believe, it's time to go to bed." "This was superb." "We felt very well to." " I hope we can continue tomorrow." " You can be sure." "Good night." " Good night." " Major lord." "Sweet dreams major lord." "Sleep tight, Ágika." "Mom." "He kissed my forehead." "What about that?" "We have to go to bed, my sweet Lajos." "Ow, my Gyula, my Gyula." "My small son." "Well, is it not wonderful, mom?" "He wasn't even tired." "The Hungarian Red Cross informs you with regret that yours son, ensign Tóth Gyula" "died as a hero in the fight against the enemy" "The telegram arrived in the morning" "Gyuri got totally confused." "It occurred to him that a field postcard arrived to Tóth's address in today's post to." "He remembered well." "Gyula wrote it." "Gyuri did not understand it." "He thought that who can write a postcard may not be dead." "So, it's not the telegram that counts, but the postcard." "Tóth family!" "Uncle Lajos!" "Good news!" "He haven't had such a good day for a half a year!" "Do not yell, you." "The major is still sleeping." "Show me." " The child." " Let me see." "Dear parents and Ágika!" "I write this postcard from the railway station." "The train of the major left 5 minutes ago." "Imagine, I didn't share such blessing for 6 months." "I took a bath and had a few beers, the major was very kind." "Please, be cordial to the major, your helping me a lot this way, Gyula." "Let him suffer no harm." "From cold beer he always caught a cold." "Don't be scared." "He can look after himself." "Drink." "Well... to your kind son's health." "According to mental hygiene it is ideal, if somebody sleeps 8 hours daily." "But he, who has got to work day and night, has got to be content with 5-10 stolen minutes." "And jointly they're almost as effective." "After a few days the Tóth family got used to it to, that it is possible to doze off at the chandler while he measures the soda." "During watering in Cipriáni family's shady-cool garden." "While the boiling soup does not get cold." "While the coffee does not boil over." "Or during review in the fire engine house" "Unless the aggregator's engineer does not wake one up." " Lajos." "Lajos!" " What is it?" "Is there afire?" " No." " What do you want then?" "Arrange it Lajos for me to speak to your major." "You know, for my younger brother's thing." "Who's sentenced to military court because of anti-state rummaging" "They blamed it on him, respectable major lord." " Where did he serve?" " Car artillerymen." " 629/12 please." " His rating?" "Corporal." "You know him, Tóth?" "I know him." "Good patriot?" "Yes." "Then why did he take out and flutter the red flag at the time of command annunciation?" "Because... he had a cold." "I report... a cold." "He wanted to take out his handkerchief, but subsequently they accused him of all sorts." "Please." "In consideration for the Tóth family, I can promise, I will have a look at it." " Yes." " But do not expect partiality of me." "Yes." "Na, how is it, Mariska?" " Much more vivid..." " That's the aim!" "Of course it doesn't solve everything." "I hope I can expect you to be honest." "Who gets tired, speaks up." "Ok?" " Naturally, major lord." " Good." "What happened, Tóth?" "Nothing, major." "Because you looked leftwards, behind my back." "So..." "A butterfly was flying in." "Butterfly?" "What kind of a butterfly?" "Well, one with two yellow patches and one red patch." "And you'r occupied with butterflyes while bending boxes?" "I merely looked there." "You just looked there?" "But meanwhile you were thinking it would be good to follow it, and strike it down." "Is it so or is it not?" "It merely crossed my mind." "I suspected it." "Look, I am very grateful for your hospitality, but it can't go on like this." "This makes sense only if we can share the pleasure." "But if you'r dealing with something else steadily..." "This is a total waste of time." "I learned it on the front, from my own crew, what it means if somebody has got the time to think." "The ones like to become a plaything of their own thought and they end up like Tóth." "The red spotted butterfly." "I'm aware of the major's truth." "but I believe, a man can't be prevented of thinking of something that he needs to think of." "Yes it can." "Why couldn't it be?" "It is merely necessary to modify the circumstances." "It rests upon us." "What obstacle is there?" "Do you understand the thought procession?" "I believe so." "Well..." "I can't quite get some things here and there." "Likewise here and there." "Think now, Tóth." "Well, Tóth?" "Did you come up with something already?" "Yes." "Now.. something..." "But no." "You like thinking though, Tóth." "Here's an occasion." "Here you go, Tóth." "There is time now." "Think of Gyula and strain that sluggish brain of yours." "Do not whisper Ágika!" "I do not whisper, dear major." "Unbutton your jacket, if somewhat more comfortable." " Maybe now." "Now." " Na." "I did not remember what I wanted unfortunately." " Something entirely different." " Oh see!" "This is the trouble!" "The start is very simple." "It would only be necessary to think of, how you worked with the boxes before my arrival." "Ágika cut the cardboards, I folded." "And what did the kind Tóth do?" " I got some air." " Oh see!" "One against one!" "I cut the cardboards alone now, and you three do the folding," "three against one." "Thus you have time to look at butterflies, to doze off and let your thoughts ramble." " And why?" " Why?" " Why?" " Ágika?" "I believe, because our margin-cutter is to small." "Bravo!" "Your daughter has a golden mind." "Thank you, Ágika." "The rest is child's play, am I right, dear Tóth?" "Yees!" " Good night!" " Good night!" "He kissed me." "Did you see?" "Daddy!" "Daddy!" "Did you find something, Ágika?" " Yes." " Me, too." "Where has the Daddy gone?" " Lord Tóth!" " Daddy!" "Where is he?" " Lord Tóth!" " Yes?" "Yes, major lord." " Take a look." " Good." "Very good." " Ow, daddy!" " The child." "Ágika." "My daughter." "Lord major... dear major." "On this night, this was the sixth" "Mariska and Ágika may have slept finally." "The major and Tóth worked on the new margin-cutter" "Major lord." "Kind major lord." "My God." "Sweet major lord." "It was an unexpected twist." "The major had the anvil fetched from the smith." "Unfortunately, the situation got worse towards dawn." "However, next night there was silence" "A little sawing could be heard, but they didn't pay attention to it." "Nothing disturbed their dreams on this night." "Approximately until midnight." "Mariska." "Mariska!" "Ágika!" "Get dressed!" "Wake up!" "We are ready!" "Need some help, Tóth?" "Are you able to carry it alone?" "My God, how beautiful." "How does it work?" "You'll get it immediately, Ágika." "For start we begin with 5 cardboards." " Mariska, come on." " I'm coming, major lord." "We start it then." "And now, pay attention." "What do you say?" " Dear Jézus, what a machine." " Wonderful." "Simply wonderful." "And... no need for scissors anymore." "Look here!" "Christ!" " It cuts like cheese." " Well I couldn't imagine something like this." "You know, how many are there now?" "10!" " 10 cardboards!" " Wonderful!" " I told you so!" " Great!" "It was worth it." "We struggled, but it was worth it." "Where is dear Tóth?" "He was still here a moment ago." " Lajos." " Daddy!" "Don't sleep all the time." "# Girls!" "Respect the lad well. #" "I am glad that your gleefull, my dear Tót." "I don't even know, how shall I express my gratitude." " Come on, major lord." " But yeah, yeah." " I'm happy and satisfied." " I am glad." "I can tell you that much, till now Helebrant, second lieutenan was my room-mate." "But, upon my return, your dear Gyula takes his place." "It is beneficial because it surrounds the schoolhouse and is double guarded" "By God, what a sweet person the commander of my son is." "We thank you." "Kind angel." "What are you doing?" "!" "Na!" "Mariska!" "Ágika!" "This is the happiest moment of my life." "We may start work with the new margin-cutter." " How do you feel?" " Very well." "Ok, let's go!" "Come on!" "More boxes were made that night, than until then altogether." "What is it Lajos?" "Did you buy some machine?" "Nothing's a lot for you, my dear little son." "Dear Tóth, when I arrived, I had my nervous system damaged in a way, that nightmarish dreams crippled me and I felt nowhere safe." "I may relate, that since not just that I healed, but grew young once again at this pleasant place." "Tóth understood in that very moment that the major took the shade for a ditch." "What should he do now?" "Reveal the major's mistake, and humiliate him?" "Or jump with him, and accept this appearance as reality." "the thing was rendered difficult by the engineer of the aggregator, who just passed by." "Good evening, major lord!" "These July evenings are beautiful." "Hello Lajos." "Where to, my dear Tót?" "Excuse me." "We are all infinitely glad that the major has his spirits raised" " And do you know what do I owe this?" " What?" "Folding boxes." "There is something uplifting in this occupation." "Some clear beauty." "Some throbbing impetus." "Folding boxes is the best in the world." "The worthiest of human activities." "How right you are." "I sometimes daydream, what there would be if even more, much more men could deal with box folding?" "The time will possibly come, when all humanity can be persuaded." "It would be a big thing." "Sure, I think that it is not right to make this uniform." "All nations could fold boxes of different shape and color." "The Dutch a round one, like their cheese." "The French in the colours of the tricolour." "The Germans do the largest, most beautiful boxes, naturally." "But it doesn't exclude, that the Russians, once vanquished, will be allowed to fold boxes of coursey, only small ones, like a match box." "Obviously, it won't happen too soon." "Hard work is needed." "But if the idea conquers, if it succeeds all humanity will bless our name." "You don't pay attention, Tóth!" " But yes." " Tut!" "Your mind is somewhere else, entirely!" "Is it the red spotted butterfly?" "No, no." "Well then what?" "Major lord." "I know an other road." "Somewhat longer, but more beautiful." "Let us go under the gardens." "Why?" "This road is very good." "What's gotten into you, Tóth?" "Tell?" "Honestly." " I'm cut up about something, major." " What?" "Before, on the way here you jumped over a ditch." "And I jumped it over to." "Naturally, man jumps over ditches." "Only... that was no ditch, major." "We jumped over a shade." " You are crazy, Tóth." " Me?" "No." " You want to suggest that I am nuts?" "By god... not for this world." "How would I dare to make such an assumption regarding my son's benefactor?" "If you knew that this is not a ditch, you should have warned me!" "You made me uncomfortable in front of this Sóskuti." "That's the very thing." "If I speak in front of Sóskuti, then... major lord." "...let us go rather under the gardens." "Nothing excuses your action, Tóth." "By now I insist on this road." "Take care, major!" "Jump, Tót." "After the respectable major lord only." "Do not argue." "I don't like courtesies." " Sóskuti!" " Yes, major lord!" "Not even a shade of your brother's hair will bend." "Thank you very much major lord." "# Red sky above the crags, # # 100 bombs detonate, #" "# Do you think of the loved ones, #" "# Write my angel, on a pink postcard, #" "# Our hearts, if simultaneously palpitate, #" "# I return on a day. #" "# Our hearts, if simultaneously palpitate, #" "# I return on a day. #" "I do not dare to tell you what I dreamt yesterday." "Imagine." "I was a bag of itching dust, which they scattered into a beautiful girl's neck." "Well as I am going below, continually below, that girl was laughing because of my touch." " Interesting." "I dreamed things like this." " Really." "And what?" "Even now my back is shivering, if I remember the feeling of you touching my navel." "How do you fold that box?" "What kind of work is this?" "Did you say something, kind Tóth?" "He said nothing, respectable major lord." "Only... only that..." "he acquired a new habit, he holds a piece of meat in his mouth without swallowing it for hours." "Well why does he not spit it out?" "Spit it out if you cannot swallow it, my sweet Lajos." "Will you show me gently?" "I think you understand that my patience has got a limit to." "I'm done." "Oh, my God." "He's packing, he'll leave." "What about our Gyula?" "You have to enter promptly and you have to apologise." " I don't." " Yes, you go." "Right now." " There is no god to force me!" " Lajos!" " Daddy!" " Where are you Lajos?" " What's up with you, daddy?" " Leave me in peace." " Think of our son." "Our only son, my sweet good Lajos." "The colds, the big Russian colds will come." "The deadly blizzards and frost, the partisans crawling through the snow." "With a knife in their mouth." "Daddy!" "Daddy!" "Think of our son Lajos." "Your son!" "Your son dies if you do not go, and ask for the apology of the respectable major." " Lajos!" "Can you hear me?" "Lajos!" " Why should I ask for apology?" "Because you lost your wits, and yawned in his face in a spoiled manner." " I won't beg his pardon!" " Yes you will, and how." "We have to do everything!" "To kiss his hand, to kiss his foot, to kiss the trace of his foot." "I do not apologise!" "Leave me." "Your vanity, right?" "!" "And your authority, right?" "!" "Your authority and your vanity do not interest me!" "Conceited nobody!" "I need my son!" "My son is the important one, you hear me?" "!" "My Gyula." "My small son." "His life is at stake and he doesn't care." " Let me go!" "I choke!" " Choke." "I don't care!" "Rather you, than my son." "Now then, Tóth asked for apology." "A few hours later, at 4 and 6 minutes in the morning, he ran away from home." "Although the major, in his usual noble manner, forgave him promptly." "Nothing happened." "Do not reproach him." "Nothing important happened, that can't be put right?" "supposing if the kind Tóth is quite sure that he did not want to yawn at all." "Nope." "I did not want to." "Not even now?" "No." "I am really glad about this." "And later?" "Not even later." "If that's really the case, are you prepared to take protective measures such as to prevent future outlets?" "With pleasure." "Sit down then." "I ask for a moment of patience." "Every one of it is good, but not one is ideal." "Got it." "I almost forgot about this." "We call this "the tweeter" on the front." "I push its arm, it tweets." "Here you go, dear Tóth." " Clever." " That's right." " What should be with it?" " What else?" "Put it in your mouth and that's that." "Just beware that you don't swallow it, my sweet Lajos." "It's not allowed neither to swallow or to chew." "Just suck it like sour candy." "Don't be so hardheaded, Tóth." "First it will be unusual, but then one can get along just as with a dental plate." "Finally, we got over it." "And then now..." "Three" " Four" "# Red is the sky above the crags, # # 100 bombs detonate, #" "# You give a thought to it, who loves you, #" "# Write my angel, on a pink postcard, #" "# Our heart, if simultaneously palpitate, #" "# I return one day. #" "Is there a force to feed us our humanity to the last bits?" " Lajos." " Daddy." "Where are you, dad?" " Daddy." " Lajos, where are you?" "Who's here?" "Hé!" "Who is it?" "Is it you, my son?" "Come on now, my sweet son." " Praised be Jesus Christ." " Eternally." "It seemed like the followers of reverend Tomaji got potty lately." "Since when does it go on, my son?" "Since days" "A desire stronger than anything to slip underneath something." "Under what?" "All the same, father." "Even now, while talking to you." "I know it isn't respectable, but..." "I can hardly resist the temptation, to not to slip under your cassock." "My son, my son." "Such a beautiful, healthy man." "Dear Jesus, help us." "Let these 4 days go by in peace, as long as the major's still here." "Let nothing happen to Gyula." "And my Lajos..." "Lajos." "Lajos." "Oh my God, my God." "What else will we get into." "What do you expect?" "You don't have to swallow it, just suck on it a littlebit." "Think of Gyula, or something." "We're in the midst of war" "Others are trembling with fear for their lives or mourning their losses." "And you'r letting yourself loose" "You should thank God for guiding your son's commander to us." "Hear, what I say, Lajos?" "I do, and how." "Where are you going, Lajos?" "Lajos, where are you going?" "Tóth sat here till dinner" "After dinner he participated with onor in folding boxes." "and locked himself again" "He was unwilling to come out for breakfast despite the repeated calls of Mariska" "My sweet son." "We are all well." "We may tell only good news." "The major took on 4 kilos in 10 days" "He's not hunted by his nightmares anymore." "Are you listening, mom?" "Of course." "And he'll take you by his side, in the battalion office." "He enjoyes folding boxes tremendously." "That's it." "We'll send a letter with him write, my little son and don't forget about us." "We think of you continuously." "Kisses, your mother." "How long will you stay in there, my sweet Lajos?" "What's that?" "Is the major leaving?" "What's on your mind?" "The major leaves in 3 days." "Then I'll stay a little longer" "Ow, you headstrong man." "Sign this." "Ágika." "Ágika." "I go to a mass." "Your father is sitting on the loo, does not want to come out." "If the major wakes up, don't let them collide." " I hurry home." " Good." "Good morning major." "You woke up so early?" "Good morning Ágika!" "Something bothered me." "Where is your Daddy?" "Daddy?" "I don't know." "He is here somewhere with certainty." "The major is looking for you." "Can you hear me?" " I do." " And what should I tell him?" "Nothing." "What about this beautiful weather!" "Yes." "Quite beautiful." "Have you found him?" " What?" " The Daddy!" "I'm not looking for him." " Then get going, okay?" "!" " Good." "Lord Tóth!" "Tóth!" "Where are you?" "Lord Tóth!" "Are you there?" "Yes, major lord." "And when do you intend to come out?" "Must I?" "Don't mention it!" "Major, have a look at me!" "And speak your mind with ease." "What does the kind Daddy do in the stinking loo?" "Did he perchance got into farting?" "I'll show him who draws shorter..." " Dear major, he didn't mean it that way." " Yes he did, and even how!" " By God, don't take it like that!" " Well how should I then?" " He doesn't plan to come out at all" "Don't you feel how humiliating this is?" "He doesn't want to hurt nobody, trust me." "Only if I could figure out what he's doing in there?" "He hid." "He's doing it recently." "He wants to hide everywhere." "Yes?" "Is he afraid of something possibly?" "I don't know." "But he doesn't speak a word." "Not even the parson could get it out of him." "Go to him major, and ask him." "Maybe, he won't be so tenacious with you, major." "You wouldn't believe, Mariska, how much patience this requires." "But... for your heart's sake." "It's me Tóth." "Tell me." "What are you doing here?" "I am sitting." "You are, but why?" "Just like that." " I like sitting here." " You like sitting here?" "!" "But why?" "!" "You'r spinning plans?" "Boiling something?" "Maybe you won't even be willing to fold boxes tonight?" "Me not willing to do it?" "Please tell me, why do you surmise that of me?" "Because you locked yourself here." "Apparently you are thinking of something, hatching plans in the darkness." "Me... yours respectable..." "I'm not thinking of anything for days." "I am sitting here, enjoying this good silence." "And if I bolt the door in, as if my dear good mother would rock me on her arms." " Are you sure?" " Sit down." " Convince yourself." " Just sit back." " No, guests come first in our house." "Say Mariska?" "Couldn't we get some beer?" "But of course, major." "Why didn't you tell me, what this is all about?" "You're still not being frank with me." " Harmonious place." " Yes." " Yeah, just a bit scant." " Doesn't matter." "It satisfies all claims." "I took a liking to it, indeed." "It doesn't surprise me, it's very pleasant." "Intimate." "What is this rustle?" "The foliage." "And what rumbles here?" "Some beetle." " Pleasant." " Very." " Here you go, major." " Thank you, Mariska!" "To your kind health." " Cheers, dear Tóth." " Cheers, major." " I hope we'll be lucky tonight with the boxes." "I couldn't find my peace without them, major." "Sure." "The kind of misunderstandings may arise..." "I thought you locked yourself because of me." "Not, no." "I came here by my own will." "In fact, this is the place I would have liked to sit in for the most of my life." "Well I am really glad about this." "Interesting." "There were disagreements initially between us, but by now, thanks god, everything got evened" "Thank God." "Lord Tóth." "Little Tóth." " Dear little Tóth." " My little Tóth..." "The last 3 days passed in mutual good humour, affection, and satisfaction." "The state of balance set in." "They folded at nighttime" "Tóth suddenly showed an unexpected form." "They couldn't stop admiring his boxes" "Look at dads." "Who would've believed it?" "!" "See, my sweet Lajos, it is possible to provoke a miracle with a little goodwill." "It was quite hard for the Tóth family that the lorries of Sanitas drove only once in a month in the village." "and considering the fact that no more place was left around the house" "They had to look for an other solution." "They were worn out because of the lack of sleep." "The continuous tension got on their nerves." "The unending wakefulness blunted their senses." "But they were cautious of not letting any traction to surface." "And let the guest be satisfied." " The fireman commander is here!" " Shut up, daddy!" " Hurray fire chief!" " Daddy, no!" " Good day, major." "Hello Lajos." " Hi Mariska." "Hello Imre." "Dear Tóth, how does the helmet feel?" "It is well how it is..." "respectable major." " Lucky people exist after all." " This family was always one." "Believe me..." "It comes very, very hard to leave you." "Well, yes." "Very." " Can I help you?" " Thank you." "Just how these 2 weeks swept by." "right, my sweet good Lajos?" "Yes." "I am very satisfied with you dear Tóth." "Just beware, so you don't relapse to your old mistakes." "There's no word of that, respectable major." " Thank you, Ágika." " Gladly, dear major lord." "And we send our love to our son." "And hand over the pie, which I wrapped, to him." "I'll hand it over." "I'll convey it, Mariska." "And because I am not a man of words," "I'll show you my gratitude through facts." "It is necessary to go." "Thanks for everything once again." "My Mariska." "Good luck Ágika." "Have a nice day, dear Tóth." "Fare well, dear respectable major lord!" "here you go..." " Was I really not a nuisance?" " Not at all." " Go with God, major." " Good bye!" " He's gone." " Yes." "Yes." "Shut up!" "Enough of this uproar!" "From now on everything will be like before." "We'll clean up this place." "I don't want to see any of these boxes." "and neither do I this forsaken machine" " Need some help?" " Help your mother." "Out with it." "Do you hear the crickets, my sweet good Lajos?" "I do." "As if it would multiply silence." "What may be with our Gyula?" " Here you go, daddy." " Thank you, my girl." "Ow, mother, my mother, sweet good mother, why did you leave..." "I see you don't believe your eyes." "Though it's true." "I wanted to have my letter of vacation stamped in the city, and I was informed about the pleasant news that the partisans blew up a bridge, the trains are 3 days late because of this." "I thought of spending another 3 beautiful days with you." "I hope I won't be of any inconvenience." "Óóó..." "Then..." "I'll carry up the bags, if you allow me." "Ágika, help the major." "I'll do it, major lord." "Don't be silly, I can carry it myself." "3 days!" "Big thing!" "And as we all gathered so nicely why don't we fold some boxes?" "Where has the big margin-cutter disappeared?" " Margin-cutter?" " Yes." "Aa, the margin-cutter." "Well I took it down into the garden, respectable major lord." "Why?" "And where?" "Only here behind the house." "Please, i'll show you." " Behind the house?" " Yes." "This way." "If a snake devours itself (a curio), does the vacuum of its being persist?" "Is there a force to feed us our humanity to the last bits?" "Is there?" "No?" "Is it?" "Heavy question!" "Did you cut it in three pieces, dear Lajos?" "No." "I made it into four alike." " Have I made a mistake?" " You've got it right." "You always knew how to handle things" "The belongings of Gyula, who died a heroic death, arrived the next day." "Silk underpants, a chequered handkerchief, an indelible pencil, pocketknife, two blades, tin opener, corkscrew." "Photograph: a man + a woman" "Purse." "In it: 38 pengo 62 pence." "16 pieces of Hungarian Soldiers cigarette." "127th field hospital;" "July 16. 1942."