"THEY WOKE UP ONE MORNING" "Want some?" "What about me?" "Who are you?" "I'm your delirium tremens." "Where am I?" "Is there anybody here?" "Where am I?" "In a better world." "Why are you screaming?" "Where am I?" "Where are we?" "In a better world." "I told you." "Why are you frightening him?" "You're not in a better world." "You're in a morgue." "Gutten morgen." "Where are we?" "I'm asking you." "Where are we?" "Why are you screaming?" "Who was screaming?" "Me." "I'm sorry, I can't understand." "What is it here?" "A health centre." "You are kidding?" "I'm serious." "Lie down and wait for a command." "We're gonna be serious." "I'm sorry, what rank are you of?" "I can't see without glasses." "I left them somewhere." "Major-General." "I don't understand." "Do you always talk like that?" "Be quiet!" "Hey, bro, do you have a cigarette?" "No, I don't." "Lie down!" "Don't panic." "We're in a detoxification centre." "I don't know what district though." "Who knows what district are we in?" "I don't know even the city." "Sit down." "You're making me nervous." "What do you mean?" "It means don't wander around." "'Cause when I see you I can think only about dead people." "What could've I done?" "To be sent somewhere, but not at home." "Why are they so brutal?" "You got it?" "Where did you want to find yourself after you have killed a man?" "What?" "How..." "When..." "A man?" "No, a monkey." "Stop playing games with us!" "This is not an investigation." "You can do that later." "You can get a lot." "You keep saying, that it wasn't purposely." "Oryou can get..." "Stop it." "He was drunk." "He even doesn't remember how he got here." "It doesn't count now if he was drunk or not." "No, it's an aggravation." "Why did you push him underthe tram?" "What man?" "You should know what man." "They were arguing about some equations." "And a tram was passing." "Then he pushed him and the tram hit him." "It was hard to look at him afterthat." "There were so many people." "He was very grey." "His first half was near the pavement, the other one - under the tram." "And a case next to him." "Did you see that?" "Why do you think I'm here?" "Because I was behind you." "They started looking for witnesses, I was rude to a police officer." "To kill a man because of some equation?" "Why couldn't they sit on a bench and solve it?" "Everyone's so wild these days." "Not a problem to kill a man." "Slaughter my boar." "Not a problem." "Have you done it?" "Nah." "I haven't, but I beat him a lot!" "Have I killed anyone?" "Or I only beat a pig." "Where do you come from?" "Okladiha." "It's far." "You killed someone too?" "No, he poisoned his mother-in-law or set fire to his neighbour." "No, I have a good mother-in-law." "So you set fire then." "I promised to slaughter Misha's pig." "It got the habit of coming to my garden." "I told Misha that I'd pluck out its eye, it'd go around and comes to its garden back." "It was nice calculation." "So it left its house and went to your garden." "But since it doesn't have an eye, she goes round and round and comes back at its garden." "And she'll think that the pig's in your garden." "I don't care what she thinks." "I want Misha to think about it." "Did I really pluck its eye?" "Don't worry so much." "You won't get much for a pig's eye." "They can make you buy a glass one." "Or Greenpeace can get mad." "Don't sit here." "I don't know you." "I see you at first time." "A murderer." "Do you have a family?" "A family?" "What?" "Are you all kidding?" "What are you looking at?" "He's young." "When he comes out he won't be so old though." "That's right, but who knows?" "It depends on their decision." "Because of some equation." "Execute by shooting." "He was a scientist who died." "Whom did you kill?" "A scientist?" "Open up, please!" "Open up!" "I need to make a call!" "What's happened?" "What did I do yesterday?" "I don't remember." "Open up!" "I don't remember what I did yesterday." "Why are they talking about..." "Soon you'll know what you did." "Don't knock any more." "I couldn't kill a man." "Can you see that?" "This is the hardest case." "Why are you so freaked out?" "You've done it." "Forget it." "No, he starts bothering." "Go and lie down!" "Remembered!" "There wasn't a pig." "I drove a tractor to a pavement." "Because if you go on a country road, it's 4 miles, and if you go on a pavement, it's less." "I was hurrying to a bath-house." "I had a bottle of port, a bottle of vodka." "And there was not a pig there." "Just a minute." "Get out." "You can't mix vodka with port." "Everybody stay in bed." "Don't ask for cigarettes." "Don't send anyone to the shop." "Hi, Nikitichna." "You're not in the mood, are you?" "You again?" "Yes, I am." "I'm here again too." "Again your wife brought you here?" "Why the wife?" "Someone else brought me." "Come on, give it to me." "Near the window, so there wouldn't smell here." "First-served basis." "I'm next." "After me." "Hey, give it back." "Or I'll hit you." "A big one?" "Go to a circus, to lift weights." "And don't hurt them." "Calm down, don't panic." "You'll do it in a prison, not here." " Where are you?" " I'm here." "Okay, you'll be next and I'll be after you." "No, you'll be next." "Got it?" "Hey, you, do you smoke?" "No, no." " And you?" " I'd smoke." " You will." "And you?" " No, I quit." "I have a duodenal ulcer." "You will smoke anyway." "How many have you got?" "Enough for everyone." "Puff smoke up." "Why do I even care about you?" "What did you say you've got?" "A duodenal ulcer?" " Yes." "A niche." " A niche?" "Yes, a niche." "What a language?" "I was in a hospital the other day." "I saw a sign on the door." ""Examination of the stomach motor functions."" "They examine motors in a stomach." "Hey, you, Niche." "Don't talk." "Smoke." "You're not the only one here." "Raise your legs." "Anna, maybe you heard who was pushed under a tram yesterday?" "Under a tram?" "Who?" "When?" "Yesterday evening." "Did you hear that something happened at the Garden Ring?" "Something happens there always." "I mean were there many people?" "Leave it." "They played a trick on you." "He made up everything." "Who can you possibly push?" "It's good that you weren't pushed." "How was that?" "Scary?" "Son of a..." "I'm going to come and hit you." "I agree." "Hit me." "Please, someone." "You promised." "You must keep promises." "Or I'll get mad and hit you too." "Are we gentlemen?" "You gave a word." "You're absolutely right." "I should keep promises." "But you face is blurry." "It is, isn't it?" "Here's my face." "This circle is my face." "You won't miss, don't worry." "Come on, I played a trick." "Come on." "I can call you a nit!" "A stinker!" "That's enough." "On behalf of all who wear glasses." "What are you doing?" "Alrighty." "Give me more!" "Come on, the other cheek." "That'd be enough." "So I can tear you up!" "Come on." "I wish to see bright days." "I wish to." "Thank you." "I'd beat him if I had my glasses on." "I can't see a thing without them." "What was that about?" "They were just drunk." "Like kids." "I wish to see bright days." "You even don't know how I'm gonna live." "I wish to see bright days." "Memory is an amazing thing." "I remember everything till a particular moment and afterthat - a lapse." "Everything depends on your nervous system." "What nervous system a person has." "You, for example, how much can you drink?" "Very much." "How much do you need so you'd fall and wouldn't stand up?" "A half of a litter plus port." "And for me -two glasses is enough." "Because I have weak nerves." "I can drink a bottle of white wine and I wouldn't lie down after that." " You?" " Yes, me." "Talk to this man." "You smoked here, didn't you?" "You smell it?" "What a sense of smell!" "Talk to him, but don't lie." "This is for statistics." "I'm not a journalist and I'm not from a newspaper." "I'm a sociologist." "Everything what I'm going to ask and you answer will not be published." "Nobody will write any articles." "I can explain." "A group of scientists, including me, work on the subject "The Cradle of Drunkenness."" "I repeat." "Yourýthoughts will not be published." "I mean that they won't do any harm to you." "Let's get started." "You, for example." "How did you find yourself here?" "Tell me about it, please." "I'd better wait." "What do you mean?" "I forgot something." "I'll lay for a bit." "I need to focus on that." "What do you mean to focus?" "It won't help us." "We should try another approach here." "I'll try to deal with that, okay?" "Is it a scientific conversation." "Of course it is, don't worry." "Just name reasons which induced you to..." "What should I say if I don't have any?" "What should we look for if we don't have them?" "There is always a reason." "They're just not obvious sometimes." "You, for example." "Ask him." "Why are you asking workmen?" "Oryou think you can't ask intellectuals such questions?" "Why he can't?" "Let me tell you..." "it's stupid though..." "I understand, you need that." "I'm ready." "We do proctoscopy sometimes." "What do we do?" "Proctoscopy." "It's analysis." "When a man is sick and he or she is being treated, they examine everything." " It's when they..." " Yes." "Well, there is a girl... a woman, who I thought would be my wife soon." "Do you like it?" "Come on in." "Come on in." "May I introduce you?" "I told you about him." "Mikhail." "Serge." "Coffee with brandy?" "What do you prefer?" "Absinthe." "Serge, find it in the kitchen." "Who is he?" "A friend of mine." "What do you mean "a friend"?" "A close one." "I don't understand you." "What do you mean "a close one"?" "A friend?" "I know such friends." "Yes." "I wanted to slap in her face that moment." "You don't have absinthe." "You have whiskey, tequila." "Who is he?" "He's my old friend." "Why?" "I thought we have other kind of relationships." "You had bad times with me?" "No." "I thought..." "I don't understand you." "You thought you were the only one for me?" "What?" "It's over?" "Why?" "You can come." "According to time-table?" "Serge..." "Michelle, why are you so mad?" "Do you have soda and ice?" "At the bottom of the fridge." "I surprised that he wasn't mad because I was a master a few days ago." "It's mean, isn't it?" "Yeah." "Move a little!" "Serge!" "Stop it!" "Want some tequila?" "I can serve myself." "Did you like your trip?" "It was great." "Who was with you?" "Alla, Phillip, Yuska and two more." "You don't know them." " Was Yuska alone there?" " Yes, he was alone." "Mikhail." "Interesting." "Why was he alone?" "Sometimes there is a mood to be alone." "And now... lick it, suck it, bite it, swallow it." "What did you do there?" "It was bad weather there." "We played preference." "It was okay." "You know who came later?" "Who?" "Grey." "A Mercedes arrives." "Grey gets out of the car." "Was he alone?" "Yes, he was." "Strange." "Grey must be insane to go alone." "Excuse me, do you know Grey?" "Of course I do." "It's the most popular colour for Mercedes." "Let's hit another one." "To our meeting." "I love it." "What cigarettes are these?" "Not the best." "Do you have better?" "Yes." "I smoke cigars." "I left them at home on an organ." "Do you have an organ at home?" "No." "I play balalaika." "What does Grey say about that?" "Well, he listens and cries." "And Yuska cries too?" "Yes, he does." "What do you play, so your music makes them cry?" ""Mother, don't sew a red sarafan to me."" "Does Grey take prizes?" "Yes, he does." "All of them." "Michelle, don't be rude." "Who's rude?" "I'm not rude." "We're just talking." "Were many people in Rio?" "No, it's off season there now." "Rains." "What does Grey do during a flight?" "Does he neigh?" "I was travelling with Black once." "He neighs so much!" "Now you'll stop neighing." "Don't worry." "Serge, don't over do." "It can't be more stupid." "How did they put you here?" "Did you hear that?" "And how did you appear here?" "Show me your ID." "Why?" "Who are you?" "Do you really think that if I didn't have right to ask you questions they would let me in here?" "Show me your ID." "I don't have any IDs." "Well, I have some." "But at home." "But you didn't leave your head at home, did you?" "Wait, wait." "I'll call the head of this department." "He'll explain you everything." "I am a scientist." "I swear." "Why would I lie to you?" "Yes, why?" "You see?" "They wear uniform and ask people." "You frighten a scientist boy." "I wouldn't like to sit at the same desk with such a guy in school." "I'd prefer him to sit under the desk." "He's really a scientist." "Do you think, that he's just a masked investigator?" "It's bullshit." "He's not an investigator." "I know this group of sociologists." "Hello." "Who is the most exacting here?" "Who asked for an ID?" "It doesn't matter who." "You just explain them..." "Why?" "You ask questions, and I'll sit for a while here." "No, you'd better explain them that..." "No, you ask questions." "Okay." "Who can tell me?" "We have someone who likes to talk." "Here he is." "Ilia Murometc." "He's not afraid of anything." "Okay, I'll tell you." "I don't care." "Let me sit here." "About yesterday?" "Yes, exactly." "What was yesterday?" "Yesterday?" "My wife..." "She always invites guests." "Men, women - doesn't matter." "And you told there wasn't a reason." "It wasn't a reason." "I got drunk not because of that." "Ljust got sick of them." "Does your wife work?" "Don't interrupt me." "I'll tell you everything." "We beat French and German." " Pour it out." " Have some salad." "To the victory." "French were the first who flew on a balloon." "What French?" "200 years before that we flew on a balloon." "We invented radio, television, helicopter, airplanes." "And we were the first who flew into space." " What do you want?" " How did you come in?" "I'm gonna kick you out of here." "Get out!" "What is he doing here?" "What do you think you're doing?" "I said get out!" "Come here." "If you ever..." "You asked fortrouble." "I threw them out." "One was in his under pants." "His wife hid somewhere." "I couldn't find her." "Maybe she went out somewhere." "I went to bed." "After I fell asleep police came." "Go on." "I'll explain later." "And you were drunk when you came?" "Very much." "Is that all?" "Yes." "No it's not." "What do you mean?" "It is." "You threw people out from a wrong flat." "They are sitting in my office now." "What?" ""A monster bursts into ourflat and starts throwing us out of our apartment"." "Can you imagine their state?" "How could you do that?" "This is all because of my wife." "Officer, what's going to happen to him?" "It wasn't on purpose." "What do you mean it wasn't?" "You must know that no one will get an easy time." "Go on." "Let's go on." "What about you?" "Why do we have to go on?" "It was a pure misunderstanding again." "I was going to take my friend home." "He lives in Khabarovsk." "He was on a business trip." "We hadn't seen each other for a long time." "Drank a little." "Those Siberian people are bored there and when they come here they start having fun." "Then the time for him to leave has come." "And it was such a misunderstanding." "Siberian people are required to be examined." "They are so wacky." "The train to Khabarovsk is leaving in 5 minutes." "Take it." " Where to?" " There." " Hello." " Hello." " Do you stay in this compartment too?" " Yes, we do." "What do you mean?" "And what about me?" "What is that?" "We'll figure that out." "We'll check everything." "Yourtickets please." "These are their seats." "They are going home." "I don't like it." "What about me?" "Show me your ticket." "Here it is." "You are going home yesterday." "As my friend says." ""Three's a crowd."" "One should be out of the compartment." "Because I've got to go home." "Calm down." "We'll fix it up." "Do not panic." "We'll figure out who is not going." "For whom of you is not so urgently to go home?" "Are you kidding?" "These are our places." "And we all have got to go home." "You mean that Nickolay should walk to Khabarovsk?" "You are wrong." "I offeryou to flip a nickel." "What are you talking about?" "Let's flip a nickel." "What are you talking about?" "Stop it, I'm tired." "It's outrageous." "Quiet." "Close the door." "They will go under the bench." "Calm down." "No need to kick up a row." "You were trying to take the suitcase." "Why?" "Because some bandits came." "Take your suitcase." "Why do you need to go with bandits in one compartment?" "Where is his suitcase?" "Which one?" "This one?" "What are you doing?" "This is my bag." "And where is his suitcase?" "What do you have here?" "You're robbing us!" "Who needs your suitcase?" "We are being robbed!" "That was my story." "Just a pure misunderstanding." "What should I do now?" " What a story!" " So what should I do now?" "And where is that Siberian?" "I don't know." "He was taken to another place." "And that one with a suitcase was a foreigner, I suppose." "Only one thing can save you." "If he was a spy." "And if he was disclosed." "And you?" "I don't wanna talk." "Why?" "Just don't wanna." "You'll draw me like this..." "But I have a daughter who just started studying in school." "Can you imagine how she's gonna look at such a father." "Well, the science..." "Let the science do its own business." "And not asking questions in a detoxification centre." "Why are you saying that?" "Because you haven't landed the moon yet, but you have time to visit detoxification centres." "Fly to the moon first." "They draw something, make fun of us." "And who's gonna fly to the moon?" "You'd betterfly there instead of asking questions here." "You are so happy to visit us here." "Why do you need that?" "What's good in here?" "Nothing." "People are sick here." "And you ask questions." "I haven't got any story." "Maybe you." "Daddy, look at these fishes." "Yes, nice." "How are you feeling?" "What do you mean?" "Do you remember what was yesterday?" "How is your hang-over?" "What are you looking at?" "Like nothing happened." "Looking like Jesus." "Maybe you had a hang-over?" "What was yesterday?" "Forgot?" "No I didn't." "I worked yesterday." "Sure." "And how much do you earn for such work?" "And he's standing here with an open mouth." "Where's your manager?" " At his place." " At his place?" " Where is his place?" " Where it was before." "You want the manager?" "The director came to work and not to talk to you." "Daddy, what a bad woman." "She's not bad." "She's just..." "Let's go." "What's happened?" "What does he want?" "He needs the manager." "Are you the manager?" "No, I'm the head of the department." "What's happened?" "I was standing." "And out of the blue she starts yelling at me." "Calm down." "I worked yesterday all day." "I wasn't at your shop." "She said I did something bad here." "But I wasn't here." "Who said that?" "She's in the fish department." "She said I did something bad here, but I wasn't at your shop." "So why are you worrying so much if you did nothing?" "It wasn't you, that's okay." "She's so rude." "She calls me very bad." "Like what?" "She called me Jesus." "Excuse me." "Let's go and see what's going on there." "Klava, what has happened?" "He was drunk yesterday." "He made a row, called us very bad." "I wasn't at your shop yesterday." "Did you see that?" "I said, I wasn't here." "Does it matter if he was or wasn't?" "Let him go." "I'm telling you again." "I wasn't at your shop." "Stop it!" "Every evening you drink here." "If she says you were here, that means you were!" "Alcoholics!" "So you were here!" "Do you really understand everything?" "I need to talk to you." "What do you need to talk to me about?" "Tell me, why did you protect her?" "I really wasn't at the shop yesterday." "Go to sleep first." "Got it?" "We'll talk somewhere else." "Why did you get mad?" "You'll get mad now!" "Why does this happen?" "Why do they always cringe?" "We made them rude." "Nobody did that but us!" "They permit too much to themselves." "I agree, but..." "It's a very long process." "That man has been living for a long time." "What's left from him?" "How has he been living?" "What has he done in his life?" "Doesn't he understand that one never should cringe!" "It's not good." "How can you live and not know this?" "Take it home." "I'll be home soon." "Hi, Sanya." "Hi." "More?" "Your wife's coming." " What's happened?" " Nothing." "What people?" "Masha told me something about bad people." "What people?" "What happened?" "You look awful." "Where've you been?" "You told me you'd go to the shop." "Where've you been?" "Sasha, let's go home." "Let's go home, darling." "The babies are waiting." "I left them alone." "Sasha, my love." "Have you thought about us?" "Don't you feel sorry for us?" "Go, I'll come soon." "Eat this." "And what was next?" "How did you appear here?" "This is the end." "I'll pretend that I'm alive, that I feel and work." "Can I help you?" "Can you calm my heart?" "I can." "I can." "I'm a professional in hearts." "I'm a sanitary technician." "I work at nights." "And what's happened at night?" "If you have a pain in your teeth, where do you go?" "In a 24/7 clinic?" "Yes." "And if you have a pain in your heart?" "I don't follow." "People come to me." "You mean to drink?" "Not exactly." "To drink too, but... it's more complicated." "Okay." "What was yesterday?" "Do you remember?" "Yesterday..." " Nickolay, hello!" " Hi, Maksimych." "Your brandy or mine?" "Let's try brandy." "It's so good here." "Do you need a co-worker?" "Why are you laughing?" "About a co-worker." "They don't pay much here." "They don't pay at all to me." "Did they fire you?" "Yes, they did." "They'll give a job, but..." "How I like here!" "How much do you get here?" "Ah, I don't care." "I don't understand something though." "If I don't do my work well, why don't they tell me so?" "No, they find an excuse to fire." "Why can't they say?" "I'd understand." "And what excuse did they find?" "The most stupid one." "Abuse of the company's car." "Did your wife use it?" "No, I did." "I called the driver on Sunday." "Drove about 2 thousand miles on the north highway." "Took breath couple of times." "The driver sneaked on you?" "Wrote a paper." "Maybe I need to concentrate." "If I'm moving I think better." "Why didn't you use yourJeep?" "I usually take a train and have much time to concentrate." "You, chiefs, are so weird sometimes." "Why can't you show people your modesty?" "An important person can say 'hi' to not so important ones." "Or you could even stop and ask them:" ""How are you?"" "You even may not care about their life." "But you could ask anyway." "You could also nod your head like this." "Yes, yes, yes." "You'd never do that." "You are too important." "I have no time for nodding." "Now you'll have much time for that." "They can retire you." "Oh, no." "Unlikely." "It's an equation with three unknown quantities." "Anyway you can't be in command." "If I were even the smallest bigwig, you'd see how polite and educated I can be." "Well, gentlemen." "How's your mood?" "Everybody cheer up." "I'd have so much fun!" "Why can't you make jokes if you live better than they do." "But if I found some Philipenko, for example." "A bad worker, son of a bitch." "Smokes more than works." "I'd beckon him." ""Do you think our country does good with workers like you?" "Maybe you think it does, but I don't agree." "We'll get stuck with such workers somewhere." "Come on, quit smoking." "And start working."" "This is how you need to deal with them." "With a smile." "I even didn't raise my voice." "And they started to work better." "And if I wanted to breathe fresh air, I'd put brandy, caviar in my suitcase and go far, far away." "Because here you might be seen." "And there you could fool around, concentrate, you name it." "You could take girls if you want to be wild." "It's not what I want to hear, Maximych." "Here's another one coming with a cane." "Who is he?" "A professor." "Has some works." "A very serious man." "But actually he's like a child." "Got married to a young one recently." "I can't take it anymore." "Brandy or something stronger?" "Brandy." "As always." "Come on, have a seat." " Hello." " Hello." "I can't." "I can't take it anymore." "Have some chocolate." " She pestered?" " Yes, she did." "So much energy!" "She got a call." "There is a mink fur-coat. $5500." "She asked me to get it." "She calls me to university." "Where can I get it?" "Borrow some money from professors." "Whom from?" "Dollars?" "No one professor has such sum." "And there is an academic council." "I should go begging?" "She screams on the phone:" ""Actually it's $6500." "But my friends give a discount." "It's from Italy." "Find $1500." "Has she got $4000 already?" " Yes." " It's easier." "What can I do?" "She goes into hysteric." "She's driving me crazy!" "What can I do?" "It's a kind of punishment foryou." "Why did you, an old man, have to marry her?" "It's about 40 years age difference." "Isn't it normal?" "No, it isn't." "Yes, it's a punishment." "But I was afraid to be alone." "You had your old women." "Why did he need those old women?" "She could cook, sweep." "It's nonsense." "Why does he need that one?" ""Find $1500"." "It's like "find a stud-horse."" "A horse." "If she had a horse she wouldn't need a fur-coat." "Listen, you seem to be some kind of a boss." "A big black car comes foryou." "I need..." "I really need a fur-coat." "Give me $1500." "I'll return it in a month." "My book is about to be released." "Even if I had this money, I wouldn't give it to you." "Why?" "Because your wife has clothes not worse than my wife has." "I saw her." "What does she need more?" "But she wants that!" "She wants to have a fur-coat." "Maybe she wants to have something else?" "And what about some punches?" "Maybe she wants some too?" "I can give you any of my works." "The oldest work - anything." "I'd give anything so I wouldn't heart hat squeal." "I'd give anything." "But please, in cash only." "And tomorrow by 11 am." "I can give you a half of my library." "I have a unique library." "Do you want it?" "The professor!" "I'd sell my soul to the Devil." "I don't wanna hearthat squeal." "Stop it!" "You are very smart, and I'm a fool." "I haven't been studying for 27 years." "Wait." "Who told you that you're a fool?" " I'm a bast shoe." " Me too." "What do you mean?" "You mean your origin?" "Then I'm a bast shoe too." "To us." "Be careful." "I'm a bast shoe and you're boxcalf boots." "But I can ease hysterics." "I'm a hysterics specialist." "It'll take two minutes." "How?" "If someone brought her to reason." "Write some intellectual words here." "I'll start with them, so she wouldn't close the door." " Write them." " Who, me?" "What's her name?" "Nadezhda Sergeevna." "Nadezhda Sergeevna." "We wrote something." "Good words were there." "And I went there." "What d'you want?" "You!" "For one minute." "The time started." "Nadezhda Sergeevna." "Dear Nadezhda Sergeevna." "Does a fur-coat can replace happiness to a human being?" "Nadezhda Sergeevna, we cannot dress everyone in fur-coats." "Don't you see other achievements?" "Don't you know, that a rich man is a man who's satisfied with what he has?" "Tolstoy, Lev Nickolaevich is right." "But another thinker Fransua Polarosh..." "What a bitch!" "Open up, bitch!" "Open the door!" "Open it!" "I'm asking you to open the door!" "You bitch!" "Nadezhda!" "Nadezhda Sergeevna!" "You are a bitch!" "What a bitch you are!" "And why did she call for police?" "You said you had good words there." "I added some words for myself." "You started cursing?" "Well, I think I did a little." "A little?" "You were standing and adding some words." "Actually I don't know why she got mad." "I told herthe truth!" "She had a very wild appearance." "I don't understand why she got mad." "You don't?" "I don't understand in my case." "What do you mean?" "Nothing." "I'm a jeweller." "And my neighbour is a cutter." "She tells me that I'm a twaddler." "I don't know why I wasn't myself yesterday." "The brother came to see me." "He's a military man." "He was on the way." "Was going on a holiday." "We were sitting and talking." "We remembered our childhood." "Our mother." "And it was so good at heart." "And then that neighbour, who lives upstairs, started moving his chairs." "I couldn't bear it." "I remembered all his offensive words." "Atwaddler, a prattler." "And went to arrest him." "What do you mean arrest him?" "Naturally." "I put on a military uniform of my brother." "And went to arrest him." " Who is that?" " I think a postman." "Open up then." "What are you doing here?" "In the name of the criminal code!" "Get your things." "What's happened?" "Stand up!" "What's wrong?" "Do you have a warrant?" "I have an order." "An order?" "I'm tired of your noise." "What kind of performances do you have here every night?" "You're a jeweller." "What are you doing?" "Silence!" "I was a jeweller for you." "That's why I tried to tolerate your performances." "How many complains you wrote about me?" "How many?" "Two." "I saw those two complains." "I wiped my ass using them." "And they thanked me for that, for a good pretence." "You thought we trifled away our time?" " Get your things." " What did I do?" "Why do I need to get my things for?" "We know everything about your activity." " What activity?" " Silence!" "Sit!" "We know even what you don't know." "Do you have a warrant?" "I have an order." "And they'll give me more." "I'd better wait with the arrest." "Do you know the Armenian guy, who sits at the corner, a big one?" "I do." "You'll come to him every morning and ask him:" ""Do you have a Slavic wardrobe of Karelian birch?"" "He will be nervous, but don't pay attention to that." "If he starts fighting, tolerate with that." "We need to extort the truth from him." "I try not to get involved with stuff like that." "I can't" "What do you mean?" "What do you mean you can't?" "Nobody can." "If you can't we'll teach you how to." "If you don't want to we'll make you." "You should ask him every day." "But don't say a word." "Got it?" "That was a good idea about that Armenian guy." "He was drunk." "And that cutter noticed that for sure." "Your tunic is too big, isn't it?" " And your pants too." " Silence!" "Your ID?" "And your warrant!" "Sit!" "Close the door." "We'll talk in another place." "Nina, call the police." "Did you see that bump?" "A big one." "But it was bluff, wasn't it?" "A blackmail." "I don't need your words." "It was a joke." "Not a blackmail." "That's enough." "I can't take it anymore." "I'm gonna beat you all for your lies." "If you lied as normal people do, but you make jokes." "It makes me sick of your intellectuality." "You have no pride, all of you!" "Hey, you, a bold one." "Shut your mouth." "How did you appear here?" "I have nothing to hide." "You think you frightened me?" "I can tell everything." "I drank." "It wasn't enough." "Went out, asked one drunk to lend me a watch." "It's called a robbery, not a borrowing." "It's not you who decides what it is." "I didn't say "Give it to me."" "I said, "Gentleman, lend me your wrist-watch."" "You got it?" "What?" "What what?" "What did you say?" "Did you say "wrist-watch?"" "Yes, that's what I said." "Some people call it a wrist-watch." "When it's gold, people call it "red-watch."" "Excuse me." "What dioptric are your glasses?" "Minus 6." "Why?" "May I use them?" "Okay." "Thank you." "Good." "That drunk was me." "Get off." "Get up!" "Why are you pestering?" "It was me." "I remembered your "wrist-watch."" "That you took my watch." "I can understand that." "It is absurd to make presents to someone who has such a face." "But why did you hit me?" "What watch?" "What are you talking about?" "Grishakov?" "Kovalyov?" "Me." "To the on-duty." "With your sheets." "You'll change there." "Excuse me, can I have my glasses back?" "I'm sorry." "Thank you." "Get your things too." "Soon we'll go to the court." "Daddy!" "My dear." "Maybe one day you'll live how you deserve to." "Daddy, look, ducks." "Yes, go."