"Ten fingers are on human hands." "How many fingers does fate have?" "Incalculably many." "FUGUE ON THE BLACK KEYS" "How many fingers can that mysterious fate possess?" "So many people can touch each other at once." "Doesn't choose the time, nor the continent or race..." "In this matter people are equal from day one..." "It makes no matter whether we wash to whiten or blacken ourselves." "Singing to himself." "Full of strength." "As young as humanity." "Humanity, to be sure, is jolly young." "Humanity is a mere stripling." "Barely raised itself on its own two feet, and is screaming already:" "Hey, cosmos!" "Hey, cosmos!" " Lažo, what a lovely wee back." " Ciao, Pepa." "Swim!" "You could stand on your head and the world is upside down." "A time will come when the talk will be of a genius piano-player." " Hi!" " Hello." " Expect some backbiting." " Sure, haven't been here for a while." "Oh well, PE teachers are stupid." " Run off your feet, hey?" " I've got a concert coming up" " and cold feet because o fit." " It'll work out fine." " Promised but hasn't showed." " Which one?" " Helena, from the hospital." " Never met." "Not worth fussing over." " What are you up to?" " Stop pestering!" "Mark my word, matey, it would be worse if two turn up." " Don't get it." " Just be a good boy." "And if that's too much to ask, be careful." "And even if that's not on, at least remember the date." " Hmm." " Women are right so and..." " You think so?" " Fall-in!" "The ones that go out with you lot are pretty crafty." "Difficult really." "They all say it's because of dosh." "Look out!" "What about you, comrade?" "It's the end of the school year" "I see you here for the first time." "What's your name?" " Fati Farari." " I don't even have you in the book." " What Faculty are you from?" " Music Academy." "From the music faculty?" "I see your Czech is excellent." " Where are you from, comrade?" " Africa." "Africa?" "OK..." "All in order." " All right, young'uns, break up!" " Throw him in the water!" "Don't be dumb, possibly can't swim!" "You're bonkers." " Bit of a joke, ain't it?" " Swimming under water." " And well." " The sea does it." " He's down there suspiciously long." " He's drowning!" " You have to get him!" " Do something!" " Lads, where is his bathrobe?" " His is the stripey one." " Needs some strong coffee." " Go and get some coffee!" " You think he really can't swim?" "Hmm, friends, save me." "When you start drowning our way" "I'll reciprocate, and I'll pull you out too." " Look!" "Is he crazy?" " That leaves you gaping, hey?" "Look, Nubar!" "With a new one again." "How does the guy do it?" "His way of studying medicine!" "Fine piano-legs." "Jazz..." "Samuel, you've married that trumpet." "Bach... great music!" "Just piano and strings." "My left hand holds..." "tempo... tempo..." " You saw him, that black prat?" " Got it coming to him, hey?" " That makes 140 in all." " Thank you." " And I've got veal too." " Really?" " Good morning, missus." " Good morning." " Uncle, I've got a new car!" " Show me!" " Míša, come here." " Leave him, he's a nice boy." " Mustn't do that." " Did you hear about the diseases?" " Good morning..." "A whole dozen." "Just from the house, how many more at work?" "Shouldn't smoke so much." "When will I find the courage to tell them the walls are too thin?" "Who's meant to breathe in it?" "I'm a problem!" "That's right!" "But a black tenant ain't, oh no!" "Do you have hard currency?" "Can't you talk politely?" "A pair of ears hear you." "Ears of the great Fati." "Then he'll beg for some cigs!" "Where can some cigarettes be?" "I know, because he keeps loading you up with cigs..." "You don't care we'll have a child in this flat... and a black man too!" " All the same to you that the kid..." " Just leave it out, please!" " Do you mind!" " Just say what's on your mind!" "Another year and that kid of yours would be black!" "Poor wretch." "Come in!" "Hi, matey." "What's new?" "What did I want..." "Quite a jumper, old man." "Yeah, my friend, you see straight off what a man it is." "If you insist..." "Heck, American cigs!" "A different taste altogether." "The wrapping, you know..." "Just need to take a whiff..." "Ah, a lighter." "What a life you lead." "No question, civilisation for me means comfort." "You find such like everywhere." "In America, Australia, even in Africa." "You can see it in their eyes." "The Embassy rang." "You should visit in the morning." "I'd like your worries." "Can I perchance go to the Embassy and ask, for example, for a new flat, a larger one?" "There'll be three of us, y'know." "The old lady is all nervous." "Enough!" "You're playing it extremely well but take care." "I still don't like this..." "You surely noticed that I stressed the last motif much more distinctly, already as a quasi pesant, and don't magnify it." "Wait, don't strengthen the two parts before, the sixteenths." "Try it once more." "That's it, Farari!" "Excellent!" "Spot on now." "Nine years!" "And he hung on." "Anyway, you can't do without self-criticism in art." "If you can't find a way to discover and eliminate one's limitations you can't achieve anything." "Competition of Bach interpreters is closed to me!" "Good bye, Leipzig!" "Don't worry about your last entrance." "Now it was fine." "In any case, you feel Bach somewhat more tenderly than is the norm here, but that doesn't matter." "The vital thing is your right choice of tempo, even the style is good." "No more playing today, one should walk slowly home, take a stroll by the Vltava river, feast on the view of the gulls and ducks... and immerse yourself in a calm..." "Relaxed atmosphere." "It will be all the same to you, believe me, of course, you'll go to bed early." "I'll ring tomorrow morning." "Now forget everything, peace, no training, and in the evening... good luck!" " Goodbye." " Thank you." "Hurrah!" "It's in the bag." "A taxi for Mr. Fati!" "That was a super evening." "We had a great party." "Hi." " Right slags." " Never with a bra on." "In those new swimsuits, American ones, with no bra." "Hello." " Her name..." "Lída." "You know her?" " Hiyah, Fati!" "Come over for a mo." "I've fallen in love." "My appendix was hurting." "You have lovely hair." " May I?" " I don't dance." "Incredible." "Not surprised that the wog would have it off with you." "You know the style." "One, two, and off to bed." " Mr. Urban, Key rum twice." " Coming up." " How are you feeling?" " So so, thanks for asking." " One sorted, if you please." " Here, I took it for Milouš." " And the second one." " Many thanks." " Your health, gentlemen." " Fingers crossed for you." "Hey, stop annoying!" " How's your one doing?" " Which one?" " One from the hospital." " Don't know." "Never showed." "Helena..." "lovely, and most strange too." "That's shite, I know how it feels." " May I use the phone?" " By all means." " By chance it's working." " I'm off, mate." "See you." " Hello?" " Miss Helena please." " Who's calling?" " Fati Farari." "One moment, it won't be long." "Helena, I wanted to tell you I'm looking forward to seeing you." "That I keep thinking of you." "That I want you to go with me." "Helena is not in Prague." "May I take a message?" "No, thank you." "No message." "One moment, it won't be long." "Where are you from, comrade?" "Eating at home using your hands and here you like to show off!" "This way you can never achieve anything." "Where are you from, comrade?" "That's it, Farari!" "Excellent!" "Helena is not in Prague." "And immerse yourself in a calm..." "May I take a message?" "Where are you from, comrade?" "Helena is not in Prague." "Africa." "... not in Prague." "Hey, gents, what's going on?" "You see the hands?" "That's a cadre document, hey?" " That's a form of ID!" " Go away!" "The Czech nation ended up like the crushed yeomen at Chlumec." "I always said it had to come." "I wanted you to come because..." "It's hard to say this but there's no alternative..." "Something has happened." "Mr. Farari, wait, no need to walk." "I'll open the lift." "Nice weather today, ain't it?" "I heard you are moving." "Pity, we all liked you ever so much." "Damn!" "Where is the bag?" "Where have I put it?" "I'm taking the wife to the maternity ward and I'm all scared." "Have you a cigarette?" "I'll buy some later but I've no time now." "Another for Mother Chance." "No grumbles, pay you back sometime." "What's up with you?" "You seem all haggard." "Ah, it's your concert today!" "You'll manage, you're talented." " Karel, let's go!" " All the best today." "I wish you all the best!" "And fingers crossed!" "Have you taken the slippers?" "Mr. Farari, wait!" "I've tried to ring you all day." "But nobody answered." "I know everything, Fati." "Life isn't just sweet music, Fati." "It's cruel, but that's reality." "Our parents give us something with their lives and also by their death." "That's all one can say." "This evening communicate using your Bach." "Life isn't just sweet music, Fati." "It's cruel, but that's reality." "Our parents give us something with their lives and also by their death." "This evening communicate using your Bach." "So, that's Fati." "Fati Farari." "As young as humanity, wants the cosmos to hear him, and then he is crushed by such an earthly matter." "Everyone holds some pain inside." "Under each stone different one lies." "Husband died during the revolution..." " The jail broke my health..." " They shot him..." "But there is the one certainty, hope..." "Main thing is I remain healthy..." "We have to graft from morn to dusk..." "I need some form of radical cure..." "The cosmos will hear Fati, the human." "Some day."