"The last?" "That's it?" "First, I never felt that what you did was ever truly loving me." "Second, and don't deny it, you stole from me." "Lastly, I became interested in other people." "Yes, in general." "Listen to yourself." "Listen, and say out loud," ""Sabrina doesn't love me."" "Come on, say it." "Come on, say it." "Again." "Again." "Again." "Again." "Last one." "Again." "I'll come by tomorrow and get my stuff." "Will you be there?" "I have sworn an oath that I will have my bond." "Thou call'dst me dog before thou hadst a cause." "But, since I am a dog, beware my fangs." "I'll have my bond." "I have sworn an oath." "Good gentle one, give me modest assurance, if you be the lady of the house, that I may proceed in my speech." " Do you confess the bond, sir?" " I can say little more than I have studied, and that question's out of my part." "I would be loath to cast away my speech, I have taken great pains to learn it." " Are you Olivia?" "lf i do not usurp myself," " I am." " Most certain, if you are she, you do usurp yourself." "But this is from my commission." "I will on with my speech in your praise, and then show you the heart of my message." " I forgive you the praise." " Alas, I took great pains" "to study it, and 'tis poetical." "It is the more like to be feigned." "I pray you, keep it in." "I allow'd your approach rather to wonder at you than to hear you." "If you be not mad, be gone." "If you have reason, be brief." "'Tis not that time of moon with me to make one in so skipping a dialogue." "Some mollification for your giant, sweet lady." "I am Bassanio, a messenger." "Sure, you have some hideous matter to deliver." "Speak your office." "I bring no overture of war, no taxation of homage." "I hold the olive in my hand." "My words are as full of peace as matter." " Now, sir, what is your text?" " Most sweet lady..." "A comfortable doctrine, and much may be said of it." "Where lies your text?" " In Antonio's bosom." " In what chapter of his bosom?" " In the first of his heart." " O, I have read it!" "It is heresy." " Have you no more to say?" " Much, good madam, let me see your face." "Have you any commission from your lord to negotiate with my face?" "You are now out of your text, but we will draw the curtain and show you the picture." "Look you, sir, such a one I was this present." "Is't not well done?" "Excellently done, if God did all." "'Tis in grain, 'twill endure wind and weather." "'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white" "Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on." "Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive, if you will lead these graces to the grave and leave the world no copy." "O, sir, I will not be so hard-hearted," "I will give out divers schedules of my beauty." "It shall be inventoried, and every particle and utensil labeled to my will as, item, two lips, indifferent red, item, two gray eyes, with lids to them, item, one neck, one chin, and so forth." "Bassanio, were you sent hither to praise me?" "I see you what you are, you are too proud." "But, if you were the devil, you are fair." "My lord and master loves you." "O, such love could be but recompensed, though you were crown'd the nonpareil of beauty!" " How does he love me?" " With adorations, fertile tears, with groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire." "Your lord does know my mind." "I have sworn to have the due of my bond." "Nothing forces me to please with my answers." "I cannot love him." "But, say, it is my humor." "Is it answer'd?" "If I did love you in my master's flame, with such a suffering, such a deadly life, in your denial" "I would find no sense, I would not understand it." "Why, what would you?" "Make me a willow cabin at your gate, and call upon my soul within the house." "Write loyal cantons of contemned love, and sing them loud even in the dead of night." "Halloo your name to the reverberate hills and make the babbling gossip of the air cry out," ""Olivia!"" "O, you should not rest between the elements of air and earth, but you should pity me!" "You might do much." "What is your parentage?" "Above my fortunes, yet my state is well, I am a gentleman." "Get you to your lord." "Let him send no more." "Unless, perchance, you come to me again, to tell me how he takes it." "I thank you for your pains." "Spend this for me." "Keep your purse." "My master, not myself, lacks recompense." "Love make his heart of flint that you shall love." "And let your fervor, like my master's, be placed in contempt!" "Stop right there." "Haven't you noticed a guy at the right side of the stage?" "A tall, blondish guy, wearing a checkered scarf." " Blond?" " Yes." "Haven't you?" "He was staring at me for the whole show, with the strangest look." "Utterly annoying!" "But did you know him?" " No, I thought he was a friend of yours." " Oh, one in glasses?" " Yes, that one!" " Oh, yes, he stared a little." "A little!" "I almost forgot my "Olivia" line." "My first boyfriend, that bastard, came to my performances and sat in the front row looking at me all the time, trying to catch my attention, waving and gesticulating." "I kept on acting, concentrated, trying to avoid him." "But at one point I got tired and said, "Enough, here it goes."" "And I stared at him during a line so intensely, that he panicked and never looked at me again." "I thought this guy would react similarly, but it was the opposite." "He stayed fixed on me, so I delivered most of the lines to him as if he'd be my boyfriend for life." " Such an ass." "Tell him to wait outside." " Oh, Agustin was there, too." " A stalker in show, makes your beauty grow." " More like he'll harass you outside." " A little harassment can't hurt you, though." " But you'll take too long here." "Agustin can do what he like." "He's on his own now." "He'll be here any minute then." "Let him come, so I can tell him I don't want to see him." "He should have already understood that." " Are you sure?" " For my part, mostly sure." " And on his?" " On his, too." " Was it always like that?" " No, but in my moments of clarity," "I tend to think very clearly." "And now you're having one of those moments?" "Yes, they are periods of loving "less," of doing "less,"" "in which I am less willing to go out, less willing to share." "I have a bigger desire for nothing, and so I become very much focused on nothing." " And it's like that every winter?" " No, I decide when." "But I do prefer winters." " You isolate yourself?" " Yes." "I do the same thing, but I do it every other week." "I don't talk to anyone or call anyone." "But I have to spread it out over the year because it overwhelms me being so quiet, so lifeless." "Once the third day goes by, don't you want to call someone, talk to Laurita, or know if everybody's fine?" "Don't you find it rather boring to have everything so under control?" "Maybe because you are a little lazy, Laurita." "No, if I can't decide that quickly, it's not because I'm lazy." "It's something else." "I react according to my surroundings." "If the context around me gives me some certainty, then I do react." "What I can't understand is that while being fine in your relationship, you may have to give it all up the very next day just because of this emotional blackout you force upon yourself." "It makes me feel good." " And at least it's clear for both of you, right?" "Clear?" "One day interested, the next forgotten!" "At least you know what to expect." "Nobody has any doubt." "I'm not lazy." "I can also make decisions quickly." "Doesn't it happen to you that even if you love that other person, you desire him less?" "No, generally not." " You always love all the way?" " Yes, generally, I do." " And in particular?" " I wouldn't jeopardize the relationship." "All at once or nothing at all?" "It's always like that, isn't it?" " No, it always takes me months to break up." "See!" "That's what I can't understand." "Your way is much worse." "You live in a state of permanent separation." " If I'm with someone, I'm all in." " Yeah, me, too." "And when I don't want it anymore, that's it." "I'm done with it at once." "If not, you're just clinging to it." "For me, it's not like that." "For me, it's the same, but sometimes you don't understand it so easily." " How's that?" " I may not know what's happening." "Sometimes I think it may be something else." "But at one point you start feeling awkward." "That's when I figure out that I have to end it." " But it may take me months to see it." " But once you do, you move on it." "Yes, I move on it." "He'll end up knocking to get back in." "And you'll have to open, or stay trapped." "Well, just to show you all that when I feel like it, I can make a decision, lam deciding to answer him." "Hello?" "You want me to explain you everything but..." " And why are you so quiet?" " I'm listening." "What do you think?" "What do you say?" "I think none of you are contemplating the idea that the other may leave you, that the other one decides for you." "And isn't it most of the time, or at least half of the time?" "In my case, I can't love someone if he doesn't love me." "I don't understand the idea of loving someone if he rejects me." " If you enjoyed suffering, you'd understand." " Or if you like the game of conquest." "Having everything against you so as to conquer him by means of seduction." "I understand that, but in my case, I can only desire if the other one wants me." "So everything revolves around you." "That's more selfish than what Sabrina does." "No, it's the opposite." "I'm all in for the other." "It's a total commitment." "Sure, but only if you see yourself reflected in the gaze of that other, who makes you feel more beautiful." "You were falling in love with yourself and you didn't realize it." "No, I say that it depends on the context." "Neither the air, nor the fatigue, but on the other." "So, it only depends on the other, what you think doesn't matter?" "The other is essential in a relationship." "And then the relationship itself develops overtime." "So, according to you, Sabrina is utterly mistaken." "Maybe." "If it's like she thinks, yes." "But if it's like Sabrina says, no." "Tell her to go back to Agustin." " She won't be convinced with just words." " Do something, then." " Do something." " Yes, make her understand somehow." "But I can't force her." "If it's like you say, that we're attracted by someone's desire, she should fall helplessly in love." "Let's introduce her to some strong guy." "And if it's not like you say, it will all go back to normal." "Of course, that's it." "If so, fine." "Sabrina has to leave Agustin." "But if I'm right, she and he must get back together." "Let's get someone to seduce her." " Someone who chases after her." " And who says what she wants to hear." " Someone that we know she likes." " No." "That "someone" would be too easy, it would all fit Cecilia's theory." "So, let's have "someone" she doesn't like." "No, because it would force the issue towards the opposite result." "The answer's in the middle." "Say it and end this riddle!" " Changing your point of view?" " To prejudice "Adieu!"" " But who will this "someone" be?" " I wouldn't mind a help from thee." " No, I cannot think of such." " So, let me say all this much." "Two times I will be right if men are not in sight." "And if Love may be produced even once she's been seduced, let this fellow be not anyone but me." " Oh, costumes are out?" " Yes." " But you'll need the veils?" " Yes." "I'll try them." "Both?" "I'll try this, but I really like the other." "Same for me, the black's better." " The other is too big." " Yeah, huge." " No, it's like a blanket." " Yes, it's a..." "No." " This is nice." " Yes, I like it." "Very much." "Thou callest me a dog before thou hast cause." "But since I am a dog, beware my fangs." "I have sworn an oath that I will have my bond." "I'll have my bond." "Good gentle one, give me modest assurance, if you be the lady of the house, that I may proceed in my speech." " Do you confess the bond, sir?" " I can say little more than I have studied, and that question's out of my part." "I would be loath to cast away my speech, I have taken great pains to learn it." "Are you Olivia?" "If I do not usurp myself, I am." "Most certain, if you are she, you do usurp yourself." "This is from my commission." "I will on with my speech in your praise, and then show you the heart of my message." "I forgive you the praise." "Alas, I took great pains to study it, and 'tis poetical." "It is the more like to be feigned." "I allow'd your approach rather to wonder than to hear you." "If you be not mad, be gone." "If you have reason, be brief." "'Tis not that time of moon with me to make one in so skipping a dialogue." "Some mollification for your giant, sweet lady." "I am Bassanio, a messenger." "Speak your office." "Sure, you have some hideous matter to deliver." "I bring no overture of war, no taxation of homage." "I hold the olive in my hand." "My words are as full of peace as matter." " Now, sir, what is your text?" " Most sweet lady..." "A comfortable doctrine, and much may be said of it." "Where lies your text?" " In Antonio's bosom." " In his bosom!" "In what chapter?" " In the first of his heart." " O, I have read it." "It is heresy." " Have you no more to say?" " Much, good madam, let me see your face." "Have you any commission from your lord to negotiate with my face?" "You are now out of your text, but we will draw the curtain and show you the picture." "Look you, sir, such a one I was this present." "Is't not well done?" "Excellently done, if God did all." "'Tis in grain, sir, 'twill endure wind and weather." "'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white" "Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on." "Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive, if you will lead these graces to the grave and leave the world no copy." "I bring no overture of war, no taxation of homage." "I hold the olive in my hand." "Hello." "Oh, how are you?" "I thought you were not coming." "Yes, it works, but it didn't ring." "Are you all right?" "It's 332." "There's a little white sign that says "Escalada."" "No." "It's 332 in Escalada St., between Warnes St. and Virasoro St." "Yes, you are five blocks away." "We're near a gas station." "Do this, call me as soon as you get here." "Okay." "I'm waiting for you." "How does he love me?" "With adorations, fertile tears, with groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire." "Your lord does know my mind." "I have sworn to have the due of my bond." "Nothing forces me to please with my answers." "I cannot love him." "Say, it is my humor." "Is it answer'd?" "If I did love you in my master's flame, with such a suffering, such a deadly life, in your denial I would find no sense." "I would not understand it." "Why, what would you?" "Make me a willow cabin at your gate, and call upon my soul within the house." "Write loyal cantons of contemned love and sing them loud even in the dead of night." "Halloo your name to the reverberate hills, and make the babbling gossip of the air cry out, "Olivia!"" "O, you should not rest between the elements of air and earth, but you should pity me!" "You might do much." "What is your parentage?" "Much, good madam, let me see your face." "Much, good madam, let me see your face." "Have you any commission from your lord to negotiate with my face?" "You are now out of your text." "But we will draw the curtain and show you the picture." "Look you, sir, such a one I was this present." " Is't not well done?" " Excellently done, if God did all." "'Tis in grain, sir, 'twill endure wind and weather." "'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white" "Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on." "Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive, if you will lead these graces to the grave and leave the world no copy." "O, sir, I will not be so hard-hearted." "I will give out diverse schedules of my beauty." "It shall be inventoried, and every particle and utensil labeled to my will as, item, two lips, indifferent red, item, two gray eyes, with lids to them, item, one neck, one chin, and so forth." "Were you sent hither to praise me?" "I see you what you are, you are too proud." "But, if you were the devil, you are fair." "My lord and master loves you." "O, such love could be but recompensed, though you were crown'd the nonpareil of beauty!" " How does he love me?" " With adorations, fertile tears, with groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire." "Your lord does know my mind." "I have sworn to have the due of my bond." "Nothing forces me to please with my answers." "I cannot love him." "Say, it is my humor." "Is it answer'd?" "If I did love you in my master's flame, with such a suffering, such a deadly life, in your denial, I would find no sense." "I would not understand it." "Why, what would you?" "Make me a willow cabin at your gate, and call upon my soul within the house." "Write loyal cantons of contemned love and sing them loud even in the dead of night." "Halloo your name to the reverberate hills." "And make the babbling gossip of the air cry out, "Olivia!"" "O, you should not rest between the elements of air and earth, but you should pity me!" "You might do much." "What is your parentage?" "I see you what you are, you are too proud." "But, if you were the devil, you are fair." "My lord and master loves you." "O, such love could be but recompensed, though you were crown'd the nonpareil of beauty!" "How does he love me?" "With adorations, fertile tears, with groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire." "Your lord does know my mind." "I have sworn to have the due of my bond." "I cannot love him." "Say, it is my humor." "Is it answer'd?" "If I did love you in my master's flame, with such a suffering, such a deadly life, in your denial I would find no sense." "I would not understand it." "Why, what would you?" "Make me a willow cabin at your gate, and call upon my soul within the house." "Write loyal cantons of contemned love and sing them loud even in the dead of night." "Halloo your name to the reverberate hills." "And make the babbling gossip of the air cry out, "Olivia!"" "O, you should not rest between the elements of air and earth, but you should pity me!" "You might do much." " What is your parentage?" "If I did love you in my master's flame, with such a suffering, such a deadly life, in your denial, I would find no sense." " I would not understand it." " Why, what would you?" "Make me a willow cabin at your gate." "And call upon my soul within the house." "Write loyal cantons of contemned love and sing them loud even in the dead of night." "Halloo your name to the reverberate hills." "And make the babbling gossip of the air cry out, "Olivia!"" "O, you should not rest between the elements of air and earth, but you should pity me!" "You might do much." "What is your parentage?" "Make me a willow cabin at your gate, and call upon my soul within the house." "Write loyal cantons of contemned love and sing them loud even in the dead of night." "Halloo your name to the reverberate hills." "And make the babbling gossip of the air cry out, "Olivia!"" "O, you should not rest between the elements of air and earth, but you should pity me!" "You might do much." "What's your parentage?" "Make me a willow cabin at your gate and call upon my soul within the house." "Write loyal cantons of contemned love and sing them loud even in the dead of night." "Halloo your name to the reverberate hills." "And make the babbling gossip of the air cry out, "Olivia!"" "O, you should not rest between the elements of air and earth, but you should pity me!" "You might do much." "And after the kiss, she realizes that she needs to run." "She hurries because she knows that her boyfriend's coming soon." "She walks by the opposite side from which she believes he could be coming." "She even walks three bus stops further from the one she usually takes." "She waits for a bus sufficiently full so as to blend in with the crowd." "She hops into the bus, gets her ticket and then she realizes, when she reaches into her pocket for coins and she doesn't feel the usual tug that her ring makes on her pants." "Horrified, her first reaction makes her jump out of the bus." "But once she's down she realizes that she cannot get back." "That she's facing a dilemma, either she goes back and meets him and risks everything being obvious." "Or leave things just as they are and waits for whatever has to happen to happen." "What would you do?" "It wouldn't happen to me." " But if it did." "What would you do?" " I'd have realized before that I had no ring." " You already lost it." "What would you do?" "I don't know." "Nothing." "Fine." "I would go to my place and I'd wait for him to come back to see his reactions towards me and then I'd decide." "You're missing a button." " Oh, yes." " Did you lose it here?" " No." " You sure?" " Are you afraid of me coming back?" " You'd chose to come back then." "How do I get to El Cid?" "Well, it was 280." "You gave me 300." "Thirty back then." " Thirty." " Good." "Who is it?" "Viola from Metropolis." " How are you?" " Fine." "Sorry for the delay." "It's okay." " I always miscalculate." " Tons of work?" " Yes, pretty much." " Check if it's all right." "It's okay." "How much is it?" "240." " Wait a minute." "I'll look for change." " Go." " Something to drink?" "Soda, juice?" " Yes." "Water." " Here." " Thanks." " Do you have ten?" " Yes, I think so." " Here." " Great." "It's been a long time since you last went to The Federation, right?" "Long enough." "It isn't as good as before." " You saying I shouldn't go back?" "No, whatever you like." " The Old West is not that bad." " Are those huge barrels of beer still there?" "Yes, and Tuesday is half price." "You go on Tuesdays?" " Yes, and the weekends, too." " You spend your days there." "Kind of." "Come by one night." " Next Tuesday maybe." " You can write it down there." " No." "This has another use." " There, in that little thing of yours." "No, I will remember." "You have money here." "I thought you didn't work anymore." " You didn't answer my e-mails." " We are getting too many" "and it takes time to read them all." " Three months." "That long?" "Come next Tuesday." "And bring a girlfriend, if you want." " Just in case, right?" " Not that you would need it." " The last time, almost." " I apologized in the e-mail." " I don't read the e-mails." " I apologized." " My boyfriend must have read it, then." " Oh, even better." "You thought I was ignoring you." "Or that you didn't like it." "Not at all." "You say that if one gets no answer, one must keep on writing till one does?" "Yes, maybe." "I always try to answer something, an "Okay," a "Message received."" "Is it all straight ahead to Paternal Square?" " Yes, and left at the first street." " See you!" "Yes?" "Viola from Metropolis." "I can't open the door for you now." "Could you slide them under the door?" "Okay." "There they go?" "Okay." " How much is it?" " One hundred." " Here you are." " Thanks." "Wait." "How do I get to Villa Crespo Central?" "Where are you going?" "Remedios de Escalada 882." "Does the doorbell work?" "Yes, I'm at the door." "No, I don't see any sign." "I am at 882." "So, I go till Warnes Street." "Five blocks down." "I'm leaving now." "Will you wait for me?" "Thanks." "Hello, it's Viola from "Metropolis."" "I have an order for Agustin." "I am at the door at Remedios de Escalada 332." "I talked to you five minutes ago." "If there was any problem, I could come back tomorrow." "Goodbye." "Thank you." " Hello." " Hello." " Excuse me." "But it opened by itself." " I was far from the door." " You want to come in?" " Yes, I thought you were not in." "I won't be able to pay you." "I don't have 400 on me." "I think it's better if you go directly to him and make him pay you." "Okay." " What do you want me to do now?" " I don't know." "Call him." "He made the order." "I had no idea it was so much." "Got his phone?" " No, I have only yours." " Have somewhere to write?" "Yes." "Give it to me." "It's far away, but it is easy to get there." " Far away?" " But you'll get there fast." " Here, this is his address." " Great." "He's at home now." "I spoke to him just awhile ago." "I apologize for the misunderstanding, but I didn't know it was so much." "Hello." " You..." "You live here?" " No." "You rang already?" " Yes." " I'll try again." "He's not in." "Fine, he'll be back in 15 minutes." " You say so?" " Yes." "It's getting cold." " Do you mind if I go back to my reading?" " No, it's fine." "What's this?" "A ring." "Keep it if you like." " Don't you wear it?" " We have tons." "It's from a play." " A theater play?" " Yes, I'm an actor." "Oh, I see." " In which one?" " A play." " Which Shakespeare play?" " Many, about seven." " Seven?" " Yes, it's a mix of plays." " Did you learn all seven?" " No." "We don't do the whole plays." "In fact, we only take a couple of lines from each." "Sure." "If not, it's too long." "An hour and a half each..." "No, much more than that." "If you take any of his plays and read it aloud, it takes you at least three hours." "Very long." "What are you reading now?" "A scene I have to learn." "Here, look." ""Viola," that's me." ""I see you what you are, you are too proud." "But if you were the devil," ""you are fair."" " We change "fair" into "beautiful."" "That's funny." " I couldn't act." " Why not?" "I don't have a good memory." "But you don't need a good memory." "People usually think that, but it's not true." "It's not that hard to learn this." "Repeat it a couple of times, and you'll end up knowing it." "In fact, I don't have a good memory myself." "It's not necessary, just a bit." " Fine, I'll let you read." " Okay." "Do you know whether he'll take too long?" "I don't know." "I guess not." "Sabrina said he'd be here all day, so he must have gone out for a while." "So this is your work?" "Right now it is." " And does it work for you?" " Yes, it's not bad." " What do you do?" "Music?" " Music, film." "A bit of everything." "And who's behind it?" "My boyfriend and I." "He does the web research, downloading stuff and I do the deliveries." " You and your boyfriend alone?" " Yes, the two of us." "Cool." " Are you making good money?" " Yes, we are doing well." "Super." "Would you honk, please?" " Is it a friend of yours?" " Not sure." "Again." " Again, again." " There she comes." "Is it her?" "That's bizarre." " In this weather." "It's Ruth!" " Hey, there!" " Yes, terrible cold." " Oh, excuse me, girls." "It's so cold." " Sure." "Yes, terribly cold." "Do you know each other?" "Yes." "She's Ruth." "She's taking my place in the play after I leave." " And you two?" " We don't know each other." " We met a couple of hours ago." " And we've barely spoken." " So, what are you doing together?" " We are waiting for someone." "Waiting for someone?" " I don't get it." " Just that." " Are you spying on "someone"?" " So, what?" " Don't know." "Kind of strange." " And you're outside in the rain" "on a bitter cold day." " Well, but you look like two jealous ladies spying on the same man waiting for him here to catch him red-handed." " No, we're waiting for Sabrina's boyfriend." " You know Sabrina as well?" " No." "No, she's just a client." " And you?" "What are you doing here?" " What about me?" " I can't tell you." " You can't tell me?" "Fine." " And you?" " No, I can't tell you." " No, just kidding." "I was learning my lines." " And how are you doing?" "Fine." "Lucky you." "I have a whole new text to learn now." " For tomorrow?" "Yes, and I am doing horribly." "I have it here." "I can help you." " Please do." "The epilogue." " Which line?" ""It is not the fashion..." That?" "Yes, "It is not the fashion..."" "it is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue, but..." ""...but it is no more..." Yes, that one." "...but, it is no more unhandsome than to see the lord the prologue." "If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue." "Yet to good wine they do use good bushes, and good plays prove the better by the help of good epilogues." "What a case am I in, then, that am neither a good epilogue nor cannot insinuate with you in the behalf of a good play!" "I am not furnished like a beggar." "My way is to conjure you." "And I'll begin with the women." " Great." " Yes, nice." "Oh, I know that, too." "Yes, I think it goes like this." "I charge you, O women, for the love you bear to men, to like this play." "And I charge you, O men, for the love you bear to women, as I perceive by your simpering, none of you hates them, that between you and the women the play may please." "If there'd be among you beards that I liked," "and breath that I hate not, then I would kiss you." " And..." "How does it go?" ""Make a curtsy."" "Oh, yes." "When I make a curtsy," "I'm sure you'll bid me farewell." "That's it." "Not so good." " No, it was great." " You think so?" " I don't know." " Would you like to do it for real?" "Of course, for when you're gone." "Yes, no." "I don't know." "Maybe, but... lam leaving the play, too, in four months." " Oh, you're leaving, too?" " You'll have four months to rehearse." "It isn't much, and you know the part." "What do you think?" "I don't know, maybe." "It's not bad." " Did you take drama classes?" " Some." " Come see the play next Friday." " Okay." " Do you feel like it?" " Yes." " That's great:" "Viola acting." " Perfect!" " You do realize, don't you?" " What?" " How everything works out for you." ""Everything"?" "Everything works out pretty easy for you." "I don't know, I don't get it." "It's a good thing, what she's saying." " I don't get it." "You're quite passive and yet many things happen to you." "You don't need to do much because things are done for you." " That's awful." " No, not at all." "Yes, because she doesn't decide much for herself." "True, she truly never decides." ""True, truly." I do a lot of things." " They are done, but you don't do them." " You react." "It used to happen to me." "It was terrible." " For example," "I introduced Javier to you, and then, it was him who gave you your first kiss." "Yes, but I did a lot of things to keep the relationship going." "Because you liked how it appeared at first, but then you managed it by simply being as you are." " And because we work for it." " How so?" " We don't fight, we don't..." " All things you don't do!" "Now, just because he comes home and kisses me, it's an awful situation?" "Let's see, every time you get home, and he's in the room, you go straight to him and kiss him?" " Always the same thing?" " Yes, so what?" " You see, completely automated." " Completely automated." "That equates to doing nothing." "It's the situation, his arrival, that makes you act like you do, and that's how your days go by." "I'm not saying it's wrong, but it defines your character." "What still has to be known is whether they have a relationship or a routine." "So, if he comes home and kisses me, it's bad." "If he never kisses me, it's worse." " What should I do then?" " Nothing, because it's not particularly bad." "No." "You should decide not to always do the same things." "You could stop doing what you always do." "Yes, to de-automate yourself." "Today, when he comes home, instead of doing what you always do, going to kiss him, stay still, do nothing." "Wait for him to do something to produce a different reaction." " What if he kisses her just as he arrives?" " That would be the worst, because that would show that the relationship is so automated, that it's already dead." "And if he does nothing?" "That's worse." "I don't understand." "What should happen?" "Let's think of an example." "He comes in, goes around, and suddenly, he comes to you and kisses you." "That would mean that you can still save the relationship." "And all because?" "Because you forced it to be displayed as it truly is." ""Truly"?" "How many times do you say "truly"?" "And so, for a change, you'd be doing something for yourself." "Yes, doing nothing." "You two are telling me to do nothing." "Yes, but I think that, for the first time, you'll be doing something out of nothing that can make you do much." "What are you looking at?" "I think that guy out there is Gerónimo." "Call him." "Open this." "Gerónimo!" "Come on." "There he is." "Agustin." "Hello." "Hello." "Are you crazy?" "You scared me." "What are you listening to?" "Like it?" "Everything fine today?" " Did you check tomorrow's orders?" " No, not yet." "Let's see." "You brought me the stamps?" " Will you give them to me?" " Wait." " What's that?" " Tomorrow's order." "Are they not washed?" "These are larger." "It's better." "Won't you wash them?" " I'll get it." "It must be Gastón!" "Hello." "Come in." "Thanks." " Is Gastón in?" " Not yet." "He must be on his way." "You can wait for him here." " This is Javier's place, isn't it?" " Yes." " Is he in?" " Yes..." "He's coming." " He was expecting you, right?" " Yeah, yeah." "I think so." " Hi." "Juliana?" " Javier?" "How is it going?" "Won't you hand me the potatoes first?" " All right?" "How are you?" " Fine." "Great that you could make it." "Look." "This is the rehearsal room." "You can try out what you want." " You play keyboards, right?" " Did you put it all together yourself?" "With Gerónimo." "Want something to drink?" "Beer?" "Look, it's unplugged." "You can plug it in down there." "Viola, I got three new orders." "One is huge." " Could you stay longer today and help?" " Yes, I can." " Did you bring some dough?" " Yes, here." " Look." " Great." " Six hundred and he owes us two hundred." " Who?" "The guy that orders weekly." "Fine, we'll split it later." " I was thinking about raising the prices." " I don't know." "I think not." " Why?" " I don't know." "If we did that, maybe they'd order less." " But you'll be able to use a motorcycle." " I wouldn't make any change." "If we raise prices, there may be fewer orders, but we'd make the same money or more." "It's less work and fewer expenses." "No, I don't think so." "But you'd ride a motorcycle." "Would you bring me a knife?" "Hey, tonight I'm going out." "But I'll be back early." "I was invited to the theater today." "We could go together." "I went to the theater last week," " Friday." " Don't you worry." " I can go by myself." " No, it's no problem." "What did they invite you to?" "I think it's a Shakespeare play." "Is someone else coming?" "No." "Thanks." "We do not need any." "Okay, I can go alone or maybe another Friday." "Why don't we call Gastón?" "He must have gotten lost." "Okay." " Is it one with the four girls?" " Yes, I think so." " Are you sure?" " Not sure, but I think so." "So, it's the one I saw last Friday." "Hi, Gastón." "How's it going?" "Where are you?" "Okay." "Fine." "Fine, great." "Bye." "See you." "Come on in." " Javier!" " Coming!" " How are you doing, Gastón?" " I'm fine." " Viola, Gastón." "Gastón, Viola." " Hello." "You sing?" "No, no." "I play a little guitar, but I don't have a band." " They'll replace Gerónimo in some shows." " Good." "How's he doing?" "I don't know." "I haven't talked to him in awhile." " I guess badly." " Yes, poor him." "He's not good." "Something to drink?" " You have beer?" " Yes." " Juliana's already in there." "Go." " Thanks." "Do you go to college at Marcelo T.?" "No, I study at Villa Crespo." " What do you study?" " Psychology," "I used to study." "I left this semester." "I thought I knew you from college." " No, I don't think so." " Sure?" "Yeah, I truly think so." "Are you coming to the room?" "Not now." "I have to finish this." "Maybe later." " Go inside." "Juliana's there." " Okay, thanks." "And after kissing him a second time, I wrote to Ruth." "I wanted to tell her what I had dreamed and what!" "had done and what I believed at that time, that everything was fine." "And even when we went to the theater, where I introduced him to Cecilia, with whom he began meeting more and more often, till it all ended up changing, in that moment, when he was singing," "thought I truly loved him." "Viola invited me" "To her house" "Her mother told her" "To get engaged" "Then came her father" "All sweaty from the factory" "He brought stolen goods" "From his job" "We sold them" "For peanuts in the street" "We brought biscuits" "And she brought maté" "Chocolate milk" "And nothing more" "We didn't do much" "But lot of nonsense" "Viola, continue!" "AH this nonsense" "You taught it to me" "Thank you, my love" "Without you, [would not laugh" "Nor speak to you" "My love" "Your father was put in jail" "You ask me to advise him" "You are a lawyer count on you" "You were a lawyer and a prisoner" "You know what you are" "Do not deceive me anymore" "Do not deceive me anymore" "Give me back the six hundred bucks" "Give me back my six hundred bucks" "I have no problem defending" "Your father" "But your mother has hinted at me again don't know how to deal with that anymore" "However, from the jail, I'm going to release him" "Come back, Dad" " Come back, Dad" "Come back Dad" " Let him come back" "Let him come back" "Come back, Dad" "Let him come back" "Let him come back" "Let him come back" "Let him come back" "So he may sleep with Mom again" "And stop her from bothering us" "He can get her pregnant" "And bring a new child into this world" "Her schedule will keep her busy" "And we'll be able to travel far away" "And never come back" "To this city again" "What a city!" "And if at the beach you decide to leave me" "It won't be a problem" "Because I'd go to sea" "And sink" "I would sink, all alone" "I can stop caring about you if you misbehave won't care for you" "And I will forget you"