"Associated Artists and Artisans" " Getting dark, huh?" "Let's stop." " We've just started!" " But you can't see a thing." " I can." "SQUINT YOUR EYES to my daughter" "Starring" "The watchman's lippy." "Don't speak." " I'll kick his ass, or..." " Don't speak." "May I help you?" "What're you looking for?" " Don't you know?" " A small girl." " What girl?" " That small, smart-ass." " Why d'you need a small one?" " I told you not to speak." "He'd better say." "Good you've brushed them off." "I gave Dad a gift, but he took it to the precinct." "What gift?" "A police badge." "Why not something of your own?" "Where did you get it?" "You said, 'Something I can't buy in the store.'" "I meant something personal." "It was a cop's personal badge." "First you promised Dad not to steal and then that badge, huh?" "You can't stay here." "I'll take you home." "I'd prefer in a police car." "What if they take you along?" "Pick up your things and hide." "Hello." "This is your contract." "I got mine too." "Wanna exchange them?" "You didn't fill it out and you signed it instead of the manager." "Why doesn't he sign it for me now?" "He can't since he's no more in charge." "Now it's the liquidator Mr. Wiecek." "To him, your contract is invalid." "So you're taking them away?" "You can take yours back from the office after Mr. Wiecek sees it." " I'll go and talk to them." " Don't." "What for?" "They'll come anyway." "They gotta find the truck first." "It's sure to come here soon." "But it won't." "How do you know?" "There's only one such truck at the forest ranger's for transporting logs, and it's being fixed now." " Then the tractor." " It'll bog down in the mud." "Where is she?" "I promised her not to tell." "You kidding?" "If I hadn't, she wouldn't be here." "Where would you look for her?" " But she agreed to let you know." " You know how old she is?" "I'm to tell you she'll stay here unless anyone bothers her." "Or else she moves out." "Help me take her home and it'll be over." "I have once." "She'll kick, spit, howl, and scratch before it's over." "What should I do then?" "Let's talk her into going back herself." "I'll let her stay so that she doesn't roam around." "You take me to her or I call the cops?" "No need." "They're over there." "Will you take me to her, dammit?" "I'm a watchman, not a hound." "Besides, I've promised her." "Here." "For Duck." " Hold this." " Haven't they found Duck?" "Take it." "I can hold it for a while, but I'm outta here soon." "Did I handle it well?" " Sosnowski?" " Yes?" " What do you think?" " You won't listen to me." "So I didn't?" "You know her folks?" " Yes, why do you ask?" " You know who her dad is?" "Yeah." "Will he take it badly?" "He will." "Don't ask me." "How badly?" "He'll burn everything down to the ground." "What movies do you watch?" "I won't go home anyway." " You can't stay here today." " Why not?" "Because I say no." "Didn't you say you cared for me?" "I did but I say no." "If you care, I'll stay, even if you say no." "You're outta here by evening or else I call the cops." "You'd better not." "You can't call the cops." "Why not?" "I can." "They'll take you along, then." "I didn't rob the rectory." "I know who did it, but the girl bought the cup from them." "And why that cup?" "Evidence she robbed it." "She just lifted an old sugar bowl from home, stupid." "The cheat's lying." "Mr. Wiecek's absent today, so why wait?" "I know he is." "You sent it to me?" " Didn't you apply for a job?" " No." "But you've got the answer, no?" "Yeah." "How's that possible?" "The point is we won't employ you." "But I'm employed since November." "How come if we didn't employ you?" "My contract is signed, so I'm employed." " And I'll work till you fire me." " You got no contract." "You haven't been employed since November." "Why are you following me?" "He's too shy to ask." "What is it?" "Will you buy a rat?" "Why should I?" "They say you buy mice." "I don't." "But a rat?" "I won't buy a rat, either." "How is it going?" "We're searching the area." "That's good." " Go and talk to him calmly." " A while ago I was to shoot him." "Just talk to him." "Not so loud cause he may hear us." "I'll shoot first and talk to him next." "He won't hear a thing." "Go." "I'll wait in the car." "A migraine, huh?" "Go home and lie down." "It'll pass." "I'll wait till you're over." "So I tell him to fetch my daughter, cause she won't listen to me." "Yes." "She listens to him." "What if she does what her snotty friends tell her?" " Go home." "I'll talk with him." " What about?" "Just go." "Some tea?" "Thanks." "My wife tried to talk me into talking with you, to persuade our girl to go back home by herself." " I'm persuaded already." " I'm not." "But she should be." "So far I've persuaded her to wash behind the ears before going to bed." " And does she?" " No." "But she has guilty conscience now." " She washes herself at home." " Only when she's told to." "I think you're corrupting her." "You should pack up and leave." "Not now." "They want to rob me of my status and position." "If I knuckle down, I'm finished as a watchman." "My wife found you a job in a school in E³k." "You just have to shave." "She's hired me once to tend your girl but you fired me." "And I've shaved a couple of times." "It's no use in the long run." "If the girl doesn't return home, I'll leave." "You know what my dad thinks?" "You know what he thinks?" "What does he think?" "That you're a nobody." "Aren't you curious why?" "Yes, I am." "Why?" "You got no woman or friends, and you're of no use." "You don't even own a car." " But I did." "You told him?" " But not now." "My way to work is this door." "So why use a car?" "Why don't you have a woman?" "I can't keep a car, let alone a woman." "I had to give mine into better hands, along with the car." "Why doesn't anyone love you?" " None of your business." " It is." "Okay, so it is." "And I'm a nobody." "You can't bring her up along with hoods and thieves." "Why?" "She can teach them good manners." "She started to steal." "She didn't know them then, only respectable citizens." "She's stolen nothing since she met those thieves." "She didn't have to steal." "If she hadn't, nobody'd've noticed her." "At home everything is centered around her." "Like round that post." "All pass it by never to talk to." "Good morning." "Your shave, sir." "They'll shave Shorty." " What for?" " To civilize him." "I don't want it." "I'm growing a beard." "The people know you can't afford a shave." "The girl's father wants to make fun of you." " What would you do?" " Tell the driver to beat it." " How would you do it?" " That's my business." "If they don't beat it, it'll all look like a fair ground." "The people will laugh at you." "Take my advice just this once." "He must be a good barber." "You won't let him shave you, huh?" "Why not?" "Once they shave you, you'll be finished." " Sosnowski?" " Yeah?" "Was it your bro wanted the Shinead O'Connor haircut?" " No." " Who, then?" "My sis wanted her hair cut like Moby, that limey." "What did the barber say?" "I won't tell you." "She's my sis, after all." "Go and ask her if she wants the Moby haircut." "She's sure to say yes." "I don't have to go." "He says Moby has his hair cut like Bruce Willis." "How can he know?" "He did Bruce's hair when Bruce was shooting in Budapest." "Tell him to do my hair in Bruce's style." "He says you look good like this." "Baldie, your noodle's shining." "Was it the lawn mower?" "I knew that all the kids would poke fun at us." "They only follow you." "Why the Moby haircut?" "So I did the wrong thing?" "Cause I look as if you were just let out of jail?" " Weren't you?" " But they don't shave heads now." "You mean you look as if you were let out of jail, though you don't look it." "Here!" "Your contract." "Just sign it." "I've already signed one." "Mr. Wiecek has it." " He isn't in charge anymore." " But he's just got in." "He's just giving up his office." "This is your contract on a new form." "Will you sign it?" "Your dress may catch fire." "I've brought her pajamas." "Please sing." "Why?" "Sing." " Not like that." " How, then?" "Normally." "What's that paper?" "For the authorities." "Write something that people could read." "I have." "But nobody reads it." " What if someone does?" " He doesn't like it." "Can't you write a good read?" " I can." " Why don't you, then?" "Because." "Got a present for Dad?" "He was to be given his last chance." "Here's your contract." "You have to sign it." "And the one you took away?" "It was signed." "It's lost." "We got a bit of a mess." "Don't worry." "The contract is still valid." "I don't have to sign anything." "You can't leave it unsigned." "Why?" "Yes, I can." "I've just left it unsigned." "You want me to unsign it again?" "No driver will take Duck into the cab." " Why?" " Not to have his seat shat on." "This driver told me to let him inside." "But Duck won't get into the cab anyway." "He will." "What if he spreads his wings?" "You worry he'll shit on the seat?" "Come on, say you are." "Will you sit on your ass?" "He won't shit, as he hasn't eaten for days." "That's why I'm taking him to the vet." "Pull over!" " Why don't you let him inside?" " What if he shits on the seat?" "What's the difference?" "What do you mean?" "Why, they look as if they've been shat on." "Sleep!" "Hi, is Jasiek home?" "Gone somewhere?" "Far?" "Jasiek!" "Jasiek!" "I got you!" "Caught for burglary." "You, artist-rebel!" "You don't write, call, or e-mail." "A revolt in a shed?" "A break for a drink." "Guys!" "A beer for Jasiek!" "Remember my brother?" "Wojtek Swietlik, Poland." " Nice place..." "You've got everything here. " " We'll be neighbors." " Warsaw moves to E³k?" "No, we've bought a plot of land nearby." "It's like Mexico here." "Not dancing anymore?" "The best bashes start at ten." "Later people get hot and have to cool down at the end." "What's wrong?" "We're sitting on his notes." "On the concrete." " He writes on the concrete?" " He learns step by step." "What's he doing?" "Teaching them hexameter." "If they laugh, he'll have an epileptic fit." "Very nice, very nice." "They've taken Eugene along." "Where?" "He's going to show them the end of the world." " Now, at night?" " What's the difference?" "Is it here?" "Are you sure?" "One!" "Did it hit?" " It touched!" " No." " That's one and a half." " No." "One and a half to zero." " Two and a half." " Two!" " Two and a half." " Two!" " I scored a half earlier." " Two!" "Now it's your turn." "Maybe I'll be lucky." " On target!" " Two and a half to one." "What am I to do with this?" "A fine box." "Cardboard not pasteboard." "You may take it along with the books." "You may need it on the way." "What for?" "I hit it!" "What did you mean?" "What did he mean?" "What did he mean?" "You can't leave now." "Right, it's evening now." "Everything must pass and you can't help it." "No, nothing ends." "One can't help it, indeed." "But I see it my way." "Cause you stare so much." " Squint your eyes and you'll see." " What?" "You don't see things end but get further away." "They seem to end but they don't." "You distance yourself from them." "They stand still and it's you who flies." "You don't want to leave, right?" "In the morning." "Go now." "When will you teach her to fly?" "Get down!" "Will you stay if I move out?" "Yes, I will." "Get down!" " You got my contract, right?" " No, two pink slips." "One from the Agency, the other from the liquidator." "Which then?" "The one from the liquidator." "So you must sign his contract first, so that he may fire you." "The other one, then." "So sign the old contract that was lost." "It's identical." "What if I don't?" "You'll get both the slips, just in case." "Give me both, then." "I'll have a full set." "Since you push me away, I quit." "Farewell, sir." "It's cold." "Get out." "I told you they'd finish you." "You have to leave now." "I've promised her to stay." "Why, she's left." "Yes, because I'd promised her to stay." "Now that's she's left and you've been thrown out, you'll outwit them all and stay?" "What the hell is this?" "Where did she get it?" " 'Though he's wounded..." " What?" "'... hit in both his eyes, 'he, a creature of valor, 'prefers death to slavery."" "He poisoned him." "He gave him poison." "What're you saying?" "I saw." "Smell it." "Poison, eh?" "It's not poison, but whisky." "A very good one, for $50." " Ever seen $50?" " No." "But you didn't drink." "I didn't tell him to down it all at once." "What's this candle?" "You haven't died." "Where did you get the radio?" "My daughter's gift for my birthday." " You know where she got it?" " From a thief, I guess." "Got a battery and an antenna?" "Don't you like such a gift?" "I don't." " I'm not a gangster." " Don't use it to do business." " What for, then?" " Would you like to send out?" "I can't cause they'll hear me." "Right." "In order to send out, you gotta learn to receive first." "Did you eat all the instructions?" "?" "Squad car reporting.?" "Milk, butter, bread." "Roger." "?" "I read you.?" "?" "We enter the shed." "Roger.?" "You've turned it off wrong." "So the thief stole the radio, gave it to my daughter, who sent it to me, right?" "But she had your birthday in mind." "You should be glad." "I am." "If you say it to her without feeling glad, you'll make an asshole of yourself again." "When did I make an asshole of myself?" "When you got the badge, you said you were glad too." "And you took it to the precinct." "That was silly." "I'd have the whole kit now." "You should've told her you were sorry." "Could I say it to her now?" "So when?" "She's already wondering if you'll go to the cops again." " They'll be here soon." " Why?" "You turned it off wrongly and it's sending out." " May I ask you something?" " Go ahead." "What're you looking at?" "At the courtyard." " At what exactly?" " What's there to look at?" "Nothing." "You don't go to work, school, or even for welfare checks, but look at the courtyard, though there's nothing to look at there." "But you're wrong." "I go to school, to work, and for welfare." "How come you're on welfare?" "Wrong again." "My dad's on welfare and works at logging." "I get his dole for him, as his boss won't let him queue for it." "Why is he sitting there?" "Waiting for the girl." "But she went home." "No, she didn't." "She left but didn't go home." "He thinks she's still here, so he's waiting." " Where is she?" " I promised not to tell." "With my sister." "Tell her I'm leaving in half an hour." "If she wants to say goodbye, bring her here." " But the bus has left." " I'll catch another in Zamoœcie." "'Among the willows," "'I ply my farmer's trade." "'I live all alone..." "'Alone..." "'I live all alone..." "'I live all alone planning 'a war against them all 'rather than knuckle down 'and let the scum triumph."" "Not bad." "I have to catch a bus." "Will you wait for her?" "Sure." "If she doesn't come, where do I find her?" "She's with Sosnowski's sis." "But he'll bring her here." " Will you take me?" " Where to?" " Zamoœcie." " Get in." "Out!" "Did he leave long ago?" "You promised not to leave." "I kept my promise, but you didn't." "I will now." "You don't have to leave." "But I want to." " You were to teach me flying." " Sosnowski may teach you." "But you promised me." "I may drive him to the station." "Better not." "He may change his mind." "Move on a bit." "What do you see?" "He's leaning on a railing by the second post." "But I see him by two posts at the same time." "Move on again." "May I say something?" "No." "Stand by the post." "What d'you see?" "I see him again by the first post." "But I see him by two posts at the same time." "By the first, leaning on the railing." "By the second, spitting into the river." "D'you see a fly on the post?" "The post disappears behind the fly, but emerges from the future ahead of him." "That's what he thinks, for it's all he sees." "Even if it wanted to, the post can't disappear behind him." "It's the same with everything." "Things don't pass, just move before our eyes like the post under the fly." "Squint your eyes and look from above." "You'll see him in a few places at the same time." " May I say something?" " No, move on a bit." "Same with my departure." "Since you've decided to sit with me here," "I'll always be sitting here, even if I leave now." "Squint your eyes a week from now, and you'll see me still sitting here." "A little bit faded, as you'll be flying for a week, away from here." "Move on." " May I ask something?" " No, move on a bit." "" "Now I go alone." " It'd be easier in the morning." "Everyone must leave some day." "Morning or evening makes no difference." "Exactly." "So you can wait till the morning." "But I'm already on my way." "There is no tomorrow morning." "You want my advice?" "To trick me into staying once more?" "I know you." "Can we wait a bit longer?" "I haven't said goodbye yet." "He's gone already." "But I want to sit with him a bit longer." "Okay, we can sit." "Can I sit with you both?" "I want to sit with him forever..." "Alone with him, without you." "He's gone." "To the bus stop." "But the buses aren't running." "The bridge is closed." "That's why." "He'll come back." "Co-starring"