"BLIND CHANCE" "Scenario and direction" "Write" "Seventeen minus nine equals eight" "That's how your mother wrote eight" "I'm only going to Denmark." "I'll write to you, Witek" "I suggest we go through the names" "Kubin" "No problems with him" "Who was he?" "The "Prime Minister"" "Still, he kissed a woman in the cloakroom." "He can be transferred" "This one was "Minister of Health"" "Still, his marks are good, he has leadership qualities, but he's popular" "Screw her!" "What's wrong?" "She was my primary school teacher." "I detested her" "But you've noticed me at last" "I bought you presents, but I didn't like your school reports" "You knew, didn't you?" "You know what pleased me most?" "When you beat up that teacher" "You had bad marks ever after." "I never did like star pupils" "Especially in real life" "Will you stay the night?" "My son, Witek" "I've only got the room for an hour" "I must make a call" "You call, but never say anything" "Father" "They're taking me to hospital. I want to say, you don't have to..." "What?" "Nothing" "My father" "Were you pissing or being sick?" "Well, all the best" "You feel you lack the vocation?" "Why?" "My father's died." "He wanted me to be a doctor" "But finally he said I don't have to..." "I'd like time to think it over" "Of course" "You've a moustache" "Beer, please" "A student's ticket to Warsaw" "You're lucky not to have missed it" "It was a near thing" "Mind your feet" "May I go to the toilet?" "All right" "But don't get lost" "Now, get going!" "Take my shoes" "He didn't want to escape?" "Sometimes people don't want to escape" "If they hit this bone hard enough you walk like this for ever" "It's getting worse" "I sort of confessed at the trial because it was for the Party" "As a Party member I had to confess things I didn't do" "I didn't think about it" "And Krystyna longed for freedom" "You talked about her?" "Yes" "She was white all over..." "strange for such a woman" "And she had that down on her upper lip and about her ears and fat, ugly hands" "Perhaps that's why I touched her, because of the fault in her" "Ugly, fat hands" "She couldn't remove her wedding ring when Adam when Adam was taken to prison in 1949" "They took him, so he had to be a spy, though he wasn't and for a year I tried to explain it to her" "Then I moved in with her" "Did we try that phone call?" "No reply" "And today?" "I still believe." "And she?" "When they locked me up she began to doubt if she was the wife of a spy" "But she believed in me" "She couldn't credit that I, too, opposed the Party and communism" "She stopped believing the Party" "She believed in herself" "Him and me were in the same prison" "She visited us both" "Him and me passed each other" "She was even whiter then, even paler" "That down on her upper lip..." "Ask for Krystyna" "I'm calling from a pay-phone." "May I speak to Krystyna?" "Say you're from the Institute" "It's me, Krystyna." "I got back some hours ago" "You weren't in" "You haven't been able to sleep?" "There's nothing..." "I've been away" "And I'm going again soon, so I haven't bought anything" "No, I can't eat this late" "Have I shown you the photograph?" "Anyway, you'll probably meet her some day" "A picture from thirty years ago" "Don't think of those days in real terms" "When did they release you?" "Too late." "Spies were released in '54" "Deviationists were released slightly later" "By the time I was released they'd been together for a year" "And you?" "Well, I got this apartment" "I think I'll end up here" "And you believe in all this?" "All this and that" "Perhaps it's easier for me to believe because here I am" "Here I am more equal" "After prison I didn't want to be equal" "They made offers to me, of course" "I left prison with people who were able to make lots of offers" "But you can see what's happening" "It's all quite simple" "We failed, but you may succeed" "Yes, you, for instance" "Want a blanket?" "Go to bed;" "I'll stay up for awhile" "You'll find a blanket there" "I have several blankets" "My father died ten days ago" "I was too late to see him" "But he told the doctor to tell me that I needn't do anything" "This is Mr. Dlugosz" "The Dean gave him leave;" "fourth year of medical studies" "You think you lack the vocation?" "That says everything" "You read it?" "It's well written and I agree with it" "Whatever you do is done well" "We can start now" "Would you like to listen?" "Werner is leaving in three weeks" "For long, probably" "Let me know if you need anything" "I know what I want to say, I don't need to read it" "I'd like to offer you the ideals to which I have been committed... ..for forty years" "Every generation craves for light" "It needs reassurance and faith in abetter, more just path" "An urge which is older and younger than Marx resembles a narcotic" "Early in life it is a joy, because the light seems so near so reachable" "Finally, it brings bitterness" "We can see how it has receded" "I have been through much these forty years" "I see that the light has receded, but I should not discourage you" "You can be sure of one thing" "Without that bitterness, that hope life would be lamentable" "Don't be afraid; her eyesight is bad and she doesn't wear spectacles" "Do you recognize me?" "May I kiss your hand?" "Will you talk to me?" "Will you wait?" "Who is it?" "My first love" "Remember to turn off the gas" "Adam gave me his card and told me to contact him after you leave" "I don't know what to do about it" "Do as you wish" "Is it an application for a passport?" "No, for the Party" "It's a pity we didn't go to bed when we were seventeen" "Stanislawski... athlete" "Zimmerman... it says here here that he's a mechanic" "Buzek..." "I'll have to check" "There's a problem with the list of Polish Youth" "They're asking who's who" "Dear Witek, sit for a moment with us" "We have a problem" "Trouble at a clinic" "Junkies, and so on" "Drug addicts" "We sent new doctors and nurses, we kicked out the old staff" "Now the patients say they don't want them and they'll burn the place down" "It would be easy to call in the police, but we have to go there ourselves" "Hold on a moment" "He could go" "How about it?" "We can't go, because they hold us responsible, but you..." "Comrade Adam thinks well of him;" "Adam says we should have a go" "But what should I do there?" "Calm them down, at all costs" "We'll stay here, awaiting your call" "Is the car here?" "There's a query about Buzek and others" "Well, Buzek is an aeroplane engineer" "The place isn't far away, you'll be there in an hour" "He's going" "From Warsaw H.Q." "Documents" "We've met before." "I'm from H.Q." "We can burn the lot in five minutes" "What's the code for Warsaw?" "Dial8" "Just like in America" "It's me" "The doctors are in the cage" "I've just arrived" "I'm calling from the manager's office" "This is the "education" room" "The manager's office is nicer" "True, isn't it?" "With potted plants" "Since they took over, two boys and a girl have made the trip" "She poisoned herself, they hanged themselves" "One was in this cage for four days" "Before?" "No one killed themselves" "What do you want, then?" "Can't you read?" "Reinstate the previous staff, medical administration, not "Youth" control" "You're the manager?" "Yes." "This is the therapist" "And the others?" "They escaped in time" "Can I speak to them?" "Yes" "What can I do?" "Think of away to get us out" "Who was here before you?" "Old fools who allowed drugs smuggled in." "They were devoted to "persuasion"" "But no one hanged themselves?" "We saved one." "The other deaths were judged as misadventure" "Will they do as they say?" "Sure, they're all mental cases" "We're not afraid" "Just like in America" "Could you get everyone together?" "There was roll-call, then a news review they read our letters, checked parcels, deprived us of visits" "And they made me a group leader- do I look like one?" "As far as I could tell the old manager liked us" "This one killed Stasek because he made love to me" "Her boy-friend hanged himself" "We walk the world in search of anew life" "We never cease awaiting the arrival of anew love" "Telephone call for you" "A meeting" "They escaped!" "Bring the cans!" "Stop it!" "You have me!" "Bring buckets, we'll spread it around" "Pour it everywhere" "Can you hear?" "I stayed, otherwise they would burn the place" "Anyway, their demands are just" "We'll wait until eight" "It's only water, we have to rehearse it" "A good starting point for you; it's good that you showed some weakness" "I was scared" "I know." "But understand that such a moment can be used" "A moment's weakness makes you more like them, they relax, then you gain control" "But it wasn't necessary to let them hear you say their demands were just" "But they were" "Yes, but your actions should concern authority, prestige, concessions" "I'd like a fair solution" "Yes, but don't express personal opinions alone in front of them" "But I was alone" "No, you had a phone, you knew the authorities would back you up" "Mr. Dlugosz" "Wasn't it you who phoned a year ago, before Werner left?" "Werner and I were once good friends" "He told me quite a lot" "About prison?" "If he had left earlier, we could have been in each other's shoes" "You think it's chance?" "They beat him and he confessed without being guilty" "It's a matter of character" "Mine, too" "But later, for fifteen years I exercised my legs" "He lacked the motivation" "How can a man still believe an ideal which destroyed much of his life?" "Every ideal has a time of instability." "The Inquisition was worse" "Believers died at the stake.When John XXIII came, the church revived" "Are you sure the period of mistakes will not return?" "Here?" "How can we be sure?" "We are going through a stage when everything disintegrates" "These people are helpless, these people in power" "It's only a matter of time before the structures crash" "You think that, and you speak about it?" "Aloud?" "Yes" "But why to me?" "Because those at the top don't want to listen to me" "I must find some support." "Perhaps you?" "What are we going to do?" "Scissors" "Where were we?" "What are we going to do?" "Be on the inside; nothing can be improved from the outside" "When things disintegrate, someone has to pick up the pieces" "You or I... somebody has to do it" "We can't just leave the country;" "would you leave it to them?" "What frightens me is that one loses freedom" "It's possible to be so dependent" "That's the meaning of organization." "They know of every step I take but I accept it" "And you know what I said and didn't say to the addicts" "Because you took your first step" "Let's start from the beginning" "What's it to you?" "I must know all about you, if we are meant to stay together" "Don't you see?" "The first was a boy at scout camp." "I was wearing very tight knickers" "To make things worse, another boy was beside us pretending to sleep, but panting all the time" "I had to stretch those knickers." "My skin was sore" "Did it hurt?" "My skin?" "Yes, it hurt." "I've had three abortions" "One because of love, two because of accidents" "The first one was in hospital" "It was awful." "They shaved me." "They don't shave private patients" "How many more blokes were there?" "Exactly?" "Six" "No, seven." "Only once with the seventh, he hit me, here" "I slept with him in a hotel, the Europejski Hotel" "Where were you with the others?" "In bed, the bathroom, a car..." "once in a toilet" "I love you" "I love you, too" "I wanted so badly to find you during that year" "I went to the hostel several times" "I've been here, too." "I was afraid to telephone" "What's up?" "They bring so much stuff." "Someone may get caught, God forbid" "Well?" "All right so far" "He complains about the underground literature here" ""What sort of a country will it be?" ""Different, just, noble." "Europe's best sons will give their blood for her"" "Do they distribute the books?" "No, we take them to other places." "Local lads arrange the distribution" "It's fine organization" "I'm here with a girl" "See what books I have" "It's funny you should keep your boat here" "They store illegal stuff" "How many are involved?" "Quite a few" "Is your girl involved?" "I'm not asking you to give me names" "It's good to know what's going on" "It's important for us to have our own information, rather than from others" "Take that into consideration." "Think it over" "You'll meet the French in July?" "That's the plan, but I'm not sure" "When is Werner back?" "Soon, probably" "He will sail the seas!" "What are you drinking?" "Vodka." "I'm getting drunk" "Are you alive?" "Yes" "What is your sign?" "The White Eagle" "When were you born?" "June, 1956, in Poznan" "Me, too, only in Lodz" "There were tanks in Poznan at the time." "Father stayed at the factory" "When mother knew her time had come, she went to the hospital alone gave birth to us, and died" "My brother and me." "I was born first, that why I am alive" "It seems to me that I remember the moment" "I have this picture under my eyelids" "Has guts." "Started talking in public" "I understood a lot thanks to you" "Thanks, that was the idea" "May I?" "I think you'll be elected" "I don't know" "It's very important with whom one walks apart" "It would take ages to explain their system to you.Just look at this" "That way, it's a calculator." "Here it's a clock there's the date, and if you put it into that mode there's a stopwatch, to fractions of a second" "Now press this button" "Each figure has its tone" "Now try to set the clock" "There are ten programmed tunes" "How small, and so clever" "You're doing well now, being promoted" "Yes, I'm a member of the Council now" "What's this?" "As though it died" "I didn't want to meet you at home" "Yes, Werner is back" "We'll have to make different arrangements." "I'll phone" "They found books in Lodz." "Two lads were arrested, the print-shop closed" "Your identity card, please" "You?" "Come with me" "Comrade Adam is engaged now" "Have you calmed down?" "Should we call the police?" "No, throw the little shit out" "And keep quiet about it" "I'm moving out." "You persuaded me it's possible to believe in something" "I believed you, like a fool" "When my aunt in Lodzsaw my Party card she broke down and cried" "She was so moved, she said her life wasn't wasted after all" "Damn her tears and your cameraderie" "It's all for your wielding of power so you can do as you please" "I've done nothing for years" "That makes it even worse" "Sometimes people get arrested." "Even girls" "Your friends made an informer out of me" "That's why I punched his face, with this hand" "That bloody grass!" "I know, he phoned me" "Wait a minute" "You forgot your ticket to Paris" "Dean" "You'll lose your newspaper" "I answered every question with:" ""I don't know"" "Did they beat you up?" "Of course not" "A very dishy interrogator, with blue eyes." "He looked like like him" "Come for your reward?" "You got me out?" "Shall I take my knickers off?" "I didn't arrange anything" "I'm confused" "You were supposed to go to France" "I don't want to go" "Go." "When you come back, marry the daughter of..." "I'll spit in your face when you become a minister." "Now I feel sorry for you" "Taking the globe with you?" "No, I don't know what to do with it" "Listen, take this for me, will you?" "But be careful, it's crystal" "We've met before" "Yes, with the addicts" "I'm grateful to you for getting me out of that shambles" "What are we waiting for?" "Passports" "I have the passports, but there's a problem: strikes in Lublin, Lodz..." "We must help our people there;" "you must go to them" "Beer, please" "A student's ticket to Warsaw" "Stop him!" "Call the police!" "Name?" "Dlugosz, Witold" "Date and place of birth?" "27th June, 1956, Poznan" "A student?" "Yes." "On Dean's Leave" "He struggled, then he hit the policeman and a colleague" "A week before I caught him relieving himself at the station" "I didn't report that incident" "Is that true?" "No" "The Court finds the defendant guilty and sentences him to thirty days loss of liberty with the obligation to do unpaid, supervised community work" "Kiss my arse" "I hope the punishment will serve an educational purpose" "We are studying for four years." "ln twenty years we will..." "Have you got wine?" "No, we haven't" "Wlodek will be Deputy Prime Minister" "Janek will be abroad, with an income of at least 100,000 dollars ln 1977we will dig the bottle up" "Well, they didn't" "It's a pity we don't know their surnames" "What are you here for?" "I had a fight with a station guard." "And you?" "The Flying University" "I allowed lectures in my flat and a neighbour complained of nuisance" "What shall we do with the bottle?" "Put it back." "Maybe they'll dig it up from under this eagle" "Is there a Deputy Premier Wlodek?" "I don't know" "Wait, there's something on the back I dug it out in 1975.l thank God you didn't make it" "I'm Marek" "I'm Witek Dlugosz" "No surnames" "Who told you all this?" "My father" "My father died two weeks ago." "I didn't see him before the end" "I only spoke to him on the telephone" "I asked the doctor if she knew the meaning of my father's last words" "She said he didn't want to die although for some time it seemed as though he accepted it" "Introduce yourselves" "He's new and clean" "Robotnik and another newspaper" "I've 4,000 zloties for you, for books" "Can you get Burek on literature and Kowalik's The Social System?" "They are for the free trade unions" "The telephone number is there" "Couldn't he deliver?" "To start with, telephone and make an appointment" "Should I mention the Father?" "Call me by name" "That will be difficult" "A month ago I missed a train here;" "if I hadn't, I wouldn't be here now" "It's not only a matter of chance" "Sometimes I think it is" "Did you forget something?" "No, it's me, I telephoned yesterday" "What's happened?" "From Stefan?" "Yes, the priest." "What's happened?" "Nothing" "I have money for you." "Seven thousand" "I saw them, the bastards" "It's not altogether their fault, and it's not that bad." "I'll tidy up" "No need to be ashamed." "Everyone is scared" "I'll help you" "This fell on the floor" "How did it happen?" "They came in, with flowers" "On behalf of the workers, they said" "Gratitude for my taking care of them when they're sacked or harassed and in thanks for the leaflets..." "it was rather nice" "I was about to make coffee for them" "Then the tallest one turned over the table" "In five minutes, everything" "Weren't you scared?" "I live on borrowed time" "It's twelve years since I was given three years to live after surgery" "If God presented me with my life, I've nothing to fear" "I panicked for a moment" "But there is nothing I should be afraid of" "There's nobody to worry about me" "Same here." "My parents died, so did my husband" "There's nobody to worry about, is there?" "Do you really believe that God made you stay alive?" "Who else?" "Don't worry, He may come to you, too, if you do what He expects of you" "He may come if you help others" "But you could ask Him yourself, He will understand" "Do you know what Mother Theresa used to say when asked what one can give a dying person?" "Faith, that we are not totally alone" "I was alone a moment ago, but you came" "That's good" "Looking for someone?" "Someone is following you" "Impossible" "What are you doing?" "We cast seeds into the wind, not knowing where they may fall" "Not knowing who will reap the harvest, who will sing at the harvest festival" "We must sow our poor soil, though we lack ploughs and harrows" "Even if the wind devours the seeds, even if crows attack the sowers" "Daniel?" "Don't you recognize me?" "You went away to Denmark" "My sister Wera" "Are you back for good?" "Only a few days." "Mother died" "I'll see who it is" "Shall we stay?" "This is my place" "If you do this again I'll inform the authorities" "Auntie wants to call the police" "A pre-war communist; her husband was an old fighter" "When we moved from Poznan all the locks were changed here and everything made more secure" "Will she call them?" "No, she's a good sort" "She thinks I've done it to annoy her, so she's upset" "What are you smoking?" ""Sport"." "First thing I bought here" "Mother divorced father;" "she lived alone" "No one knew she'd died, until bottles of milk accumulated outside her door" "And what about your father?" "He builds roads in Denmark." "We have a house and everything" "He seems to have got used to it, but I always feel that I'm far away" "It's Danish: "I am happy in this small, happy country"" "Why didn't you go with them?" "I didn't want to" "She fell in love" "Is that true?" "Yes" "In 1968 someone shouted at her:" ""Jews to Israel!"" "A boy slapped his face, and she fell in love with that boy" "He was expelled from university, then she married him" "He's an aeroplane engineer now" "At that time I didn't know the reason for your departure" "How old were you?" "Eighteen" "How old were we?" "Twelve" "I remember exactly how we said good-bye" "You and your father were going uphill, towards a car." "He called you" "There was no car" "Will you come to Lodz?" "Yes, soon" "Look out for me" "But why have you come here?" "I want to be baptised" "I'd like to be baptised" "Are you crazy?" "What for?" "To have a purpose in life" "Many derive peace and security from it" "True, but one needs faith for that" "I must have it, since I know I want to speak up, not to be passive" "Join the Party" "They don't know" "Do you pray?" "No" "Give it a try one day" "Lord" "It is done now." "Baptism is a formality, but I am here" "I did what I could" "Now I beg You:" "Be." "I am ready." "I ask You to be" "I will never ask anything of You again" "Just be" "One thousand." "Time for eggs" "How many for you?" "Two" "I'm cooking eggs." "How many for you?" "Three... no, two" "How goes it?" "We've printed two thousand" "The son of my Dean, medical school" "I've something for you to read" "Did you bring something to eat?" "Yes, twenty eggs" "The Polish Treaty of Independence" "Your passport." "Have you a visa?" "Yes, and a ticket reservation" "What is the purpose of your trip?" "Catholic Youth Association world gathering, near Paris" "Well, here's your passport, but it's not so simple" "You were involved with illegal literature." "You were arrested" "You had meetings in your apartment" "Someone else's apartment" "Irrelevant." "We don't want you to inform on your friends" "We know it all, anyway" "In France you will make new contacts" "We would like to know what is going on" "We'll give you a phone number;" "dial and give the names" "We can even make a deal that it will concern the French only" "And what if I agree?" "Then you will get your passport" "You could have been run over" "Did you see me pull her back?" "I didn't notice" "Strange day" "Never had such a day before" "I went to mother's grave" "I have a grave now, you know" "Everyone has graves to visit" "I hadn't, until now." "I came from nowhere" "You can't understand that, can you?" "You're making this up" "No" "You had a grandfather, a grandmother." "Everyone has" "You must have predecessors" "I know nothing about them;" "mother never told me" "I don't know who they were where they are, nothing" "One of my grandfathers was in the 1863 Uprising" "The other took part in Pilsudski's "Miracle on the Vistula"" "Father was in Poznan with General Kutrzeba, and in the 1956 events" "He died in bed three years ago" "They're all within reach" "I never thought of that" "What did your father say to you when he was dying?" "How do you know about that?" "He wanted to tell me something but he waited too long with it" "I telephoned often, to enquire after him; it took him some months to die" "I kept putting the phone down;" "I couldn't keep asking how he was" "He knew it was me who kept phoning" "Good tea" "In our fourth year, at a post mortem, one student had a strange expression" "They were opening up her old teacher" "Later she told me she tried to imagine she was opening her" "Why am I telling you all this?" "Because I was telling you about the film Manhattan" "We talk so much;we've told each other everything, I expect" "No, many things are difficult to tell others" "Have you such things?" "You wouldn't tell me?" "Not even you" "Fear?" "What else?" "Things about my father, about God" "About my crooked toe" "And something I don't know how to tell you" "But you'd like to" "I don't know how" "It could be a bit about both of us" "Are you sleepy?" "Get up, I'll show you something" "That's what you wanted to show me?" "There is... there was a note inside" "About the past and the future..." "it's gone now" "You were going to France" "I didn't get the passport." "It would have been my first flight abroad" "My husband maintains those planes" "You told me" "Didn't you want to go to bed with me?" "I did" "Do you believe in God?" "Really?" "Were you baptised?" "Recently" "How is it?" "The priest asks if you're ready to accept the Catholic faith" "And what do you answer?" "Yes" "They found out?" "Where were you?" "What about the boys?" "In prison" "You were supposed to be here, too." "Where were you?" "You suspect me?" "Give me the keys" "And never show up again" "Don't you understand?" "Everything will clear up" "What about me?" "Pray" "Pray not to hate those who accuse you" "Always remember that this is a conspiracy" "It is difficult to dispel a suspicion" "You will come to France with us" "We'll have plenty of time there" "You'll calm down" "I won't come with you" "To the Praga district?" "From over there" "Is Werain?" "Do you know when she will be back?" "I'm her brother's friend" "She's gone to Lodz" "You were out.l waited four hours." "Wera" "Did you hear?" "Was the girl who stayed with you a few days Jewish?" "There were many wonderful communists" "What are you listening to?" "Radio Free Europe" "Workers in many Polish cities and at the Ursus factory in Warsaw struck" "I'm glad you haven't gone abroad now" "A student's ticket to Warsaw" "How come you're here?" "I phoned;your aunt said you're leaving" "I wanted to accompany you" "I was five seconds late" "I looked for you after the funeral" "Remember the first time, on the floor?" "Leave them in the office, I'm too busy now" "To see me?" "Yes, but I don't know where to start" "You gave me leave" "I remember." "Was it a mistake?" "No, I'd like to return and make up for the lost time" "You said you'd lost the vocation" "It returned" "It doesn't look like it, although..." "I've something to tell you" "I'm three months pregnant" "You really want to marry me?" "Aware of the rights and duties of establishing a family I solemnly declare that I contract marriage with Olga Matwijszyn" "I'd like to talk to you." "We have a proposal" "We'd like you to stay at the Academy" "I really wanted to work in a hospital" "You can." "But you can spend some hours with us, preparing your Ph.D." "I've a lucky streak lately" "Does that bother you?" "A prescription" "Couldn't she be taken to hospital?" "I'll bring the medicine myself" "I'll visit often; don't send her to a nursing home" "It will only be a month or two now" "They've been practising for ten years" "What for?" "They say no one else in the world can keep so many going at once" "Who talked to you?" "The First Secretary and another one" "They said they'll give me a position which will enable me to work better on my Ph.D." "I want to refuse them, but I don't know how" "Do you believe in God?" "No" "But you could say that you do and you won't make compromises about it" "They couldn't check on that" "I used to put them off by saying that I did not believe in the Party" "But I don't advise you to do that;" "they got angry" "You won't go along with them?" "You've a moustache" "I've heard that they made you an offer and you refused" "Shall I sing you The International in the evenings?" "We've maintained the treatment for a week" "Any improvement?" "Here's the last ECG" "The heart is more stable" "Can I talk to you for a moment?" "We're collecting signatures of scientific workers" "Students are persecuted for advertising the Flying University" "Who is he?" "They want to expel him from the university for printing leaflets" "Not everyone wants to sign it" "You've stood out in the past" "Yes, but I won't sign it, either" "Isn't it the Dean's son?" "What's the trouble?" "At the station?" "I'll come at once" "Thanks for coming here so late" "It's a private matter" "You know my son was arrested" "I'm going to Warsaw, but that's not the issue" "I was supposed to go to Lybia in a month's time" "Impossible now" "Some time ago I didn't sign a petition protesting against his arrest" "At the time I thought you were right" "I'm not so sure now" "I just didn't want to take sides" "You're a decent sort and it's all of no importance" "I'd like you to replace me in Lybia" "It's just a conference, you can read my lectures for me" "You needn't decide now" "Of course I'll go" "Hear me out before you agree" "I've no one to turn to now;" "I doubt if anyone would help me" "I expect they'll expel me from the Academy" "They should let you out of the country, but it may be your last trip for years" "I'd like you to think it over" "If you decide to go, let me know" "If not, we haven't seen each other" "I'll go" "It's for the 10th July, but my wife's birthday is on the9th and I'd like to go a day or two later" "I love my wife very much" "There's a connection on the 11th, via Paris" "I'll check whether the ticket is valid for foreign airlines" "A beautiful lighter" "Yes, the ticket was bought with foreign currency" "Leave it with me, I'll make the reservations" "When shall I call back?" "In two or three days" "Are we clearing up?" "Go to bed." "I'll just empty the ashtrays" "Will you come to Warsaw with me, to the airport?" "No, I'm on duty that day" "Don't go" "Are you serious?" "I decided, and I'd like to go" "I looked at you one night" "Nothing" "Listen, write and tell me how you feel about this: we're expecting a daughter" "A light?" "Passengers on flight 277 to Paris, go to gates 3 and 4"