" What are we waiting for?" " Nothing." "Vita, stop it!" " Hey, dummy." " What do you need all this for?" "Let's go!" "Gavrilo!" "We're late." "They're waiting for us in Sarajevo." "Gavrilo!" "They say that Franz Ferdinand is already in Sarajevo." "Hey, get going." "Where did everyone go?" "Hurry up!" "The barge is going to beach." "The ships won't be able to get into Petersburg now." "It's no big deal." " You worn out?" " No problem." "They say a prince or something got killed in some Sarajevo." "Now all the prices will go up." "GARPASTUM" "Slowly move your hands apart." "Now systematically examine the front of the vagina." "Stretching the vagina with air." "The shifting of the organs in the knee-elbow position." "Stretching the vagina with air." "Insert a lubricated forefinger half way into the vagina." "Examine the muscles on the right perineum with the thumb." "Next, move to the base of the labia major." "What's so good about it?" "Watch it, take it easy on my book." "Don't you think a woman's soul matters more than her body?" "No..." "I had a dream that you got run over by a train." "At first I was upset, but now I'm not sure." "Let's continue." "The use of both the second and third fingers... makes a larger area palpable, it allows for a more defined... and deep examination;" "and this while the hand doesn't get tired." "It's good to lower the elbow as low as possible, the elbow resting on a knee." "For this put the foot on the table crossbars, or on a stool." "In this way you will have the clearest view of IT." "It fell, Andrey." "My teeth are whiter." "Why are all of your books about the vagina?" "Tell me, Andrey." "Moron, you'll end up blind in a hospital." "You'll bring me packages." "We're brothers, aren't we?" "I think it's a tragic mistake." "Do you think it's true in 30 years... airplanes will carry a few thousand people?" "Why aren't you listening, Nina?" "Dear Officers!" "Go." "I'm a general myself." "Nina, don't be flustered." "Do you want a pastry?" "I'm not flustered." "It's just that everyone's so funny here." "It got cold." "Let's go somewhere warm." "I want to have some fun." "It's nice here." "We're having fun and we're happy." "You're so dusty." ""My breast felt cold, my steps were light," ""I put on my left glove, but it's really the right one. "" " Do you like the poem?" " It's good." "We have a friend who mixes up gloves when he plays goalie." "It's just like real life." "Then we'll go listen to poetry tonight." "You're so nice, Andrey." "So kind and good." "I'll tell you a strange thing, Nina." "I was dreaming about you all night." "I couldn't sleep." "I kept thinking about you." "Don't embarrass me." "I'm not embarrassing you." "I'm courting you." "He exaggerates everything." "Let's go, I'll protect you." "Stop kissing my hand, soon the skin will peel off." "Let me carry you in my arms." "You'll get sick." "You've such a nice brother." "Look how he smiles." "In two years, by 1916, they promise to build an airplane... with a wing span as big as this field." "The grass is so wet." "Will be bad weather tomorrow." "Airplane!" "Push, push!" ".." "I hate these official festivities!" "Stop torturing me." "Let's go to Anitsa's." "It's always fun there." "Would you like to be an aviator?" "Well?" "But she's cross-eyed!" "Let's go make punch." ""I was licking my eye last night, and as well my breast," ""That's why I came to Blok's so late to be his guest. "" "The horn is calling." "You're the horn." " Imagine a cross-eyed statue." " Remember that face." "Can a girl suck her breast?" "Or her girlfriend's?" "If the breast is small - no." "But if it's big..." "I'm smiling." "Anitsa!" "And what size are your beasts?" "On the seaside I became friends with a circus man." "For two weeks he tried to teach me to swim." "Then he told me I couldn't do it... because I have small lungs." "But I love the water." "Lermontov's poetry is a pile of brilliant drafts." ""Onegin's ancient anguish, piles of snow on Senate square," ""The smoke of the flame, the cold of the blade," ""Skiffs and seagulls scoop water on their way to the rope depot," ""Where only opera men wander selling spiced tea or rolls." ""Motorcars race into the fog," ""The oddbal Yevgeny ashamed of his poverty," ""Inhales the fume and curses his fate. "" "Life flashed by like lightening." "Come in." "I decided to change my clothes, then I changed my mind." "Don't be afraid." "I am not afraid." "What's your name?" "My name is Anitsa." "Smile." "Look at the way I smile." "Be so kind as to have a shameless expression." "Don't be ashamed of your youth." "You're so handsome." "Andrey." "Take off your clothes." " It's cold here." " I'm not cold." "Come on, get undressed." "Look straight at me." "Like that." "See, you do it nicely." "Now get out." "Just like that." "Naked!" "He likes to peep." "What was that for?" "Forgive me." "I'm an idiot." "You're just so young." "And I'm an old old granny." "Don't cry." "You're an adult." "Let's go." "Andrey!" "Shoust, stop rubbing your eye." "My grandfather says it's a lazy eye." "That's nonsense." "Fatso, don't fall behind!" "Why do they always call me 'Fatso'?" "My mother, father and grandpa are fat, but I'm just stocky." "It's because they're older." "That's doesn't give them the right to insult me." "Fatso!" "Throw the ball back!" "Anyway, it hurts me." " Hi, Chura." " Hi." "But you're really not skinny." " Shall we play for money?" " It's tasteless." "With money you're somebody, without it..." "Get out of here!" "Baldy, the pretty boys have come." "They'll leave the same way they came." "Tails." "Our ball." "Well, let's go." " Mister, let me play!" " Don't even think about it!" "Nick, pass it to me!" "Andrey!" "Shoust!" "Andrey!" "Fatso, catch!" "Let's go." "Let's do it." "Shoust!" "Andrey!" "Chura, take it." "To me!" "Come on!" "I got it!" " To me, to me!" " Shoust, take it!" "Shoust, over here!" "Andrey, it's under you!" "Baldy cut me off." "Fatso, cover the corner!" "Baldy cut me off!" "Chura, why are you playing so rough?" "Shut your mouth." "Listen, Professor, why don't you like anything?" "Don't go there, don't do this." "If I hit you you'll break." "Everything's fine, Chura!" "So you didn't score." "Go hang yourself." "Let's go." "Andrey, look what I can do." "Let's do this:" "I pass to you and run right." "Shoust runs left to confuse Stretch." "You pass to me, I pass it through, and you score." "Let's do it like that." "We're brothers, aren't we?" "Nothing is sacred for you." "How can we play with you, Chura?" "You're barbarians!" "Be quiet, Andrey." "What did you call me?" "Tomorrow morning at ten at the factory... some Englishmen are picking players for their team." "You can lean only against someone that resists." "It's not mine." "Pascal said it." "There will always be people with bad tempers." "Let's do it." "Andrey." "Don't overdo it." "Didn't we agree?" "Cover me, Andrey!" "Andrey, come on!" "What kind of forward are you?" "You missed." "Grandpa!" "Listen to your smart brother." "Please, grandpa, don't." "Let us keep playing, please." "How about tomorrow?" "Tomorrow's another day." "Say goodbye to your friends and come back." "Grandpa, please." "Let's go." "Until tomorrow." "Andrey, don't blame Grandpa." "Nikolai, run faster and fall less." "You run like a cripple!" "Did you see how I was juggling the ball?" "I saw." "Tomorrow we'll go see the Englishmen." "Andrey is only interested in himself, right?" "If I don't go to the dacha tomorrow, father will have heart troubles and mom will get upset." "Give me my jacket and shoes." "Here." " Fatso!" " Bye, Shoust!" "Bye, Fatso." "Bye, Shoust." "Andrey, take your jacket." "Misha, let's go help grandpa with the laundry." "I still think football is a team sport." "Maybe you'd like me to hit you?" "'This horrendous crime makes one's blood curdle." "'Franz Ferdinand, who was killed by Gavrilo Princip, 'was a real patriot of his homeland." "'Chairing the session in the Prague Academy, 'he refused to elect Count Lev Tolstoy an honorary member, 'because the Count is the enemy of any state." "'The archduke was courageous enough to speak his mind." "'He was an inveterate anti-Semite 'and was killed by a scoundrel prodded by revolutionary Jews." "'After the assassination of the archduke in Sarajevo," "'Emperor Wilhelm stopped the regatta in Kiel... 'and ordered the flags to half-mast." "'The English did the same." "'The heinous act by Gavrilo Princip forces us... 'to forget about our daily lives and await the impending war'." "I've to go to my patient today across all Petersburg, but instead I'm waiting here for an hour worrying." "In the end I'm just an old sick man." "Don't you worry." "Have some bread." "Uncle, we're adults." "Yes, adults." "Look at your hair." "It's time to get it cut." "School starts again soon." "Don't worry about me." "You're not my father." "Andrey, what's going on?" "Your aunt and I are worried." "She's been coughing all day." "What do I care?" "You know what, my dear friend?" "I have to lecture you on morals." "After all, your father and I got the same lectures." "So stand here and listen." "My impression is that you don't plan to study." "You're obsessed with a ball." "And I understand that you're worried about your parents." "Look at Nikolai." "At least he works in a pharmacy." "Yes, in a pharmacy." " He plans on becoming a doctor." " Yes, a doctor." " There's no disgrace in it." " And you're useless." "Stop gorging." "Pigs and Andreys gorge." "I'm eating." "I think the pickles are salty." "They're fine." "Don't worry about me, Uncle." "Who needs you?" "A savage!" "I'll take another helping." "Another day is gone." "Stop it, silly." "Go apologize to your uncle." "You know how touchy he is." "I want everything to be... like when my mother was alive." "It'll never be." "Don't you have any compassion for me?" "Everything in the house is breaking." "Pasha!" "Lena, help me clean up." "You think I don't love you or my brother?" "After all, you could clean up after your father." "I'll do it, Pasha." "It's all absurd and sad." "It'll all be fine." "If the war starts I'll go to the front as a doctor." "There's no other way." "I'll volunteer." "Nothing will start." "It'll all be fine." "It will start for sure because of this nothing Ferdinand." "The Serbs are right." "And as a nobleman I..." "It's just a title." "You're just a good kind doctor." "Stop getting worked up." "The war's been canceled for today." " Is there water in the samovar?" " Yes." "Pasha!" "Everyone in this family is the nervous type." "Both your uncle and your father." "But they have a lot of good qualities too." "But so far you're just but nervous." "The English players look like chimney sweeps." " Where did they all come from?" " What did you say?" "Where did this whole crowd come from?" "I think according to nature." "First their parents met..." "Yeah, funny." " It's going to rain." " It will or it won't." "If they don't take me, I'll become an aviator." "Guys, what are you doing?" "Guys!" "There's a cock fight here!" "Sasha, come here!" "Girlies!" "What, are you pulling a wheelbarrow?" "You're losing to stinking Englishmen!" "See, we can do it!" "Get off the field!" "Why're you standing there?" "Let's play!" "All right, play." "Put it up here!" "Over here!" "Closer to him!" "Like that!" "Did you see that?" "I scored!" "We're with you!" "Attack him!" "Hard!" "Come on!" "Strike!" "Now I'm going to score!" "Come on, play!" "It's yours!" "The game's over, gentlemen." "You may go to the stands." "Why did we have to come here?" "What's wrong with our place?" "Drag ourselves through shit until we're old?" "I'm tired of groveling whether they take us or not." "To hell with them." "Ivan!" "Vanya!" "Why don't we build our own stadium?" "We'll go into business, join the league and sell snacks." "Yeah, I see." "I know a good place." "I'll tell Merchant." "He'll give us the land and protection." "What a stupid name." "Hope there won't be any laundry there." "Merchant'll figure it out." "He'll help us and we'll build a stadium." "Fuck you all!" "Go back to your England!" "What are you telling us for?" "Tell them." "Did you hear how I told them to fuck off?" " What happened?" " The war started." "I'm looking for the little master." "My feet are wet." "So here it comes." "Nikolai!" " Hello, Nikolai." " Good morning, Sir." "We have about a dozen prescriptions." "Can you manage?" "Yes." "What do you have in the box?" " What's in the box?" " A phonograph." "I'm obsessed with this stuff." "Just keep buying it." "The lock's broke and I can't go out." "It's Andrey." "Remember?" "In the bathroom." "Do you know locks?" "I don't know." "I can break the door down." "Don't even think about it." "Anyway, it's you who wants to get in." "Andrey, what are you doing?" "Why are you doing that?" "It's stuck." "Why are you doing this?" "I haven't seen you for a long time." "I can't think about anyone else." "Wash your hands." "It's nothing but marches lately." "Everybody's in a state of rapture." "I had a maid." "But my friends said..." "I was oppressing her, that it's a new age." "So I fired her." "Why?" "She didn't want it." "You listen to somebody's opinion and then..." "You know, you're beautiful." "I love you." "I'm not beautiful." "I'm wicked." "And it will all end very badly." "Why do you think a smart grown woman should fall for you?" "Can you cry?" "Can you cry?" "I don't think so." "Do you think you're so handsome?" "My nails are peeling." "So why don't you cry?" "I think you are a nervous fool." "A stupid unhappy fool who doesn't know what she wants." "Want some wine?" "Come here." "What?" "Come here." "Do that thing you did in the bathroom." "You're growing up quickly, but... you don't know the terminology." "What a horrible place you brought us to." "I lived here before my grandpa took me." "We're absolutely different." "You live there and I live here." "You just never thought about it." "At six months I was nearly dropped into boiling water." "And I'm not afraid of anything now." "Hi, Ramil." "Why are you so happy?" "Yesterday I pulled up a good one on some Volodya." "The stupid jerk paid through the nose." "Did you go wild and blow all the money?" "A little." "Merchant, Merchant." "Merchant, come here." "That's how it's done!" "I came about the field." "I remember." "Let's go have a look." "The most popular game in 1025 B.C. in China... was kicking a ball stuffed... with horsehair and feathers." "And four centuries ago, no, in the fourth century B.C, the ancient Spartans called this game 'Garpastum'." "You'll have to pay for it." "I could give it for free, but the guys won't like it." "I'll still have to grease the chief of police." "Because you're not adults yet." " How much?" " Two hundred rubles." "You've got rich friends." "Family silverware will do." "What, haven't you slept well?" "Nobody loves me." "So I was married to your sister." "Stop blackmailing me." "Remember I was eight and your friend stepped on my hand... when I was sitting under the table?" "You were so small and quiet that he didn't even notice." "But it hurt and I cried." "Look, my fingers are still crooked." "I can't bend them." "What do you want?" "Am I a Tatar?" "You're a Tatar." "I took you out every day after that for a month." "Okay, 170." "But no less because the guys won't understand." "Merchant, don't tell me it's land... you planned growing wheat on." "Asking for that kind of money." "Have you gone crazy?" "Okay, 140." "They'll give me hell anyway." "What on earth happened?" "We're in debt." "If it was just up to me..." "Nothing's working out." "Yesterday I thought about your sister and got depressed." "But in the morning I was all right again." "Then my heart was aching again." "If it were for you, no problem." "But why for them?" "They've no problems at all." "Easy come, easy go." "It is a good field." "We have to pay 140 rubles." "No one will touch us and we'll build a stadium." "Yes, sure, it's a deal." "We'll come back as soon as we get the money." "It's true, he can't take less, but no one will touch us here." "Merchant!" "Where can we get that much money?" "How do I know?" " He looks very sad." " Because he's a Tatar." "They're all sad." "My God, what is that crap?" "Let's go, we still need to measure the field." "We have a new doctor in our hospital." "An absolutely fascinating person." "I saw him receiving a patient." "He has wonderful eyes." "Don't eat too much." "Is everything okay?" "Now here's a woman... who looks after her husband's health." "Pasha." "I'll keep eating until I turn... into a balloon and you'll roll me all over the house." "You remind me more of a huge hamster." "Suppose I explode?" "Then you will break the house." "Pass the mushrooms, please." "Then roll me to the crazy house on Kamennoostrovsky." "Relax, or you won't be able to fall asleep again." "They say that Germans are retreating all along the front." "That means by New Year we'll have a chance to be in Berlin." "Thanks." "My God!" "Andrey, Nikolai, don't get offended." "I understand it's all our fault, but you're so argumentative." "I know I'm a grouch, but please understand I love you, I love my brother." "Lena and I loved your departed mother." "We had no children and did our best raising you." "There is no reason for you to sulk." "Good night." "Good night." "Andrey, Nikolai." " Where are you going?" " Where's my bag?" "I remember leaving it on the table." "Uncle!" "Call your mother, I can't find my watch." "She's gone out." "It's already morning, where did she go?" "Where's my bag?" "What's wrong with your hand?" "Uncle!" "What a mess, there's no bag and no watch." "Why have you come by so early?" "What's wrong with his hand?" "It's fine." "I'll go to work now." "You'll go." "Don't worry." "Tomorrow is Masha's birthday." "Close the door, please." "That's what your soccer leads you to!" "Should we take him to the hospital?" "He needs treatment." "You want your dad in an asylum, wearing a straightjacket and waking to unfamiliar faces?" " He needs treatment." " You're an egomaniac." "Where does it come from?" "Love's not what you think it is." "It's also responsibility." "Hold it." "Nick, Nick." "Know what, young egomaniac?" "Our strange family's unhappy but it's happy too." " Is it true I'm an egomaniac?" " It's true." "What should I do about it?" "There's nothing you can do." "Let's sleep." "Something's not clear about the money." "It's clear to me." "We'll build a stadium, join the League and beat the Germans." "Father will be happy." " Hear that?" " What?" "Something's ticking." "Maybe you swallowed something?" "I didn't swallow anything." "What are you talking about?" "Nothing is ticking." "Cut it out." "Sleep, my dear, sleep." "Sweet dreams." "Don't kiss me." "Something is really ticking." "The fog is everywhere." "Every score's worth five kopecks." "Hands cost ten kopecks." "And no rough stuff." "We'll play first to ten." "Why is it always five kopecks?" "Why does white-capped vodka cost sixty and red-capped forty?" "Because that's the way it is." "Interesting fog." "Looks like a cloud." "Where did we get the money?" " I took it from the pharmacy." " It's stealing." "We'll win and return it." " And if we lose?" " So we have to win." "That's it." "I'm going to the goal." "Go." "Take it!" "Andrey!" "Look, he's free!" "Nick!" "Where are you passing it?" "Don't show off." "So I didn't score." "I will next time." "Andrey, get closer!" "Fatso, cover the corner!" "Eight to six; ours." "That's how life can go down the road to ruin." " What's going on?" " Nothing." "I want out." "Why are you so upset?" "We're just like dad." "We're gonna lose all the money." "Let's go." "You'll get fired." "Who needs it?" "Father bet all his money on the Olympic football team, but they lost 16:0 to the Germans in Stockholm." "And he got sick." "I had a dream:" "I keep shooting the ball, then I score in our own goal." "We're coming!" "I've got no passion in my life except for football." "He made a mistake, but we won't." " And what if we do?" " Stop it!" "Let's do this together." "You're a genius capable of anything." "Shall we start, gentlemen?" "Andrey, Andrey!" " Sit and rest a little." " It's nothing serious." "Can you play together for once?" "I walk faster than you run." "Try." "If it doesn't work we won't do it." "We'll do it your way." "Fatso, go to your goal." "Now it's time to play." "Andrey!" "That wasn't a goal!" "It's mine!" "Put it up!" "Just a little!" "Like that!" "8:7, gentlemen!" " Why are you sniffling?" " No problem, just a cold." "Shall we start?" "Faster, faster!" "Shoust!" "Move in!" " Take it!" " Back, back!" "Give it to me!" "Come on, come on!" "Andrey!" "We won!" "10:8." "Cough up the money." "You said your prayer, but it's just hot air." "Let's do it!" "Shoust!" "Nick!" "Nick!" "Shoust!" "Shoust, give it to me!" "Like that!" "10:4." "We won." "I did great!" " I cannot do that." " So what." "Take it!" "So, priests, you lost?" "Nick, take it!" " We're masters, aren't we?" " I'm the master." "Don't drop it!" "Don't drop it!" "Anyway, I'm a genius." "Let's go to the mirror." "The girl you were here with came by yesterday." "Nina." "She's thoughtful." "She kept eating grapes." "Tell her I said hello." "Grab my neck." "She's too smart, isn't she?" "Forgive me." "I thought the dog came in and got surprised." "No, forgive me." "It's different for women." "Someone's here." "You're always having visitors." "Don't do that." "Stop bossing me." "Yesterday I got soaked." "The city is nothing but puddles now." "I saw Gumilev and Anna at the station." "They send you kisses." "You're so tense, Alexander." "Calm down." "Would you like some soup?" "Yes, sure." "Nekrasov asked me to write a piece... for a book of Grigoriev's poems." "I'm thinking about it." "I'm also reading survey cards." "Something's going on, but it's all boring and confusing." "Yes." "And I'm having weird dreams." "I get sick from them." "It's terrible all this started." "There will be a lot of blood." "Yesterday I went outside..." "Andrey please pass some bread." "Everything has changed." "It just was the 19th century and suddenly it's the 20th." " Where are you going?" " I have to go." "The dog's gotten old." "He's 10 already." "I can't punish him, it's like beating your own granddad." "He's just my old friend." "Don't get offended." "He's nice and talented." "Maybe even great." "I've got plans with the guys." "Watching your guy it struck me..." "We imagine the world revolves around us, that people know us and our books." "We'll all be gone with the wind." "No one will notice." "Maybe someone will recall us in a hundred years." "But it won't be us, we'll be different, imagined." "How's the soup?" ""The soup's the color of a puddle." "You're a saint, and I just muddle. "" "Give me back my spoon." " Need some help?" " No." " Why not?" " Because." "You look like a ball, all brown too." "It's funny." "They're scared of us." "Take it." "Look, I'm playing football on a bicycle!" "Get out of here!" "Goal!" "Andrey, goal!" "Why don't you come on a camel?" " You go!" " Hold it." "Sorry." " Give me the ball." " Here." "Good job, Shoust!" ""The current of time's river will carry off all human deeds" ""And sink into oblivion all kingdoms and their kings. "" "And schoolboys too." "Chura!" "Where are you going?" "The other way." "Hi, Chura." "Hi, Chura." "How's it going?" " What do you want?" " We were just passing by." "Why did you come?" "How about playing for money?" "Raising money for the field?" "If you had asked, I would've just given it to you." "Here's 30 rubles." "I'm not greedy if it's for the field." "Chura, are you nuts?" "Are you drunk?" "I'm nobody's fool." "You're beside yourself, Chura." "Is it enough?" "Almost." "Now we need another five rubles and twenty kopecks." "Thanks, Chura." " The sky is falling." " What?" "Nothing." "Go." "Enough fooling around." "Your place is in the army." "Chura!" "It's gonna rain hard." " Hello." " This is Andrey." "This is Vita, my younger sister from Sarajevo." " What's wrong with her?" " The child is sick." "After the hospital he was fine." "Now he's coughing all night." "I had to take sleeping pills." "You've grown." "The boy has a fever again and I've run out of medicine." "My brother works in a pharmacy." "Let's go." "Andrey, we're already closed." "Hello." "Terrible." "This is Nikolai." " So, let me tell you something funny." " No." "Relax, your son will be fine." "He's my brother." "Has anyone told you that when you get angry, you look..." "I don't know." "The soldiers praised me when they took me." "You're callous." "I'll make the sea now." " How old is your brother?" " Five." "It really sounds like the sea." "Those treated by the book risk dying from a misprint." "Is that funny?" "Here it is." "Vita..." "Thanks." "Will you make ointment for me?" "No, not for you." "I forgot to say goodbye." "Well, goodbye." "When your brother gets better, come watch us play football." " Okay." " Be sure to come." "Are the rolls fresh?" "Will you talk to me, Nick?" "I don't want to talk to you." "Let's all of us go to Izmailovo tomorrow." "Andrey." "Auntie." "Don't let him kick." "I'm free!" "Pass the ball." "It should be four, not three." "We won." " Grab." " I got it." " Hi." " Hi." " Hi." " Hello." " I'm Vita." " Shoust." "Andrey!" "Death-rate statistics for married men and bachelors... confirm that married people live longer." "Mortality rate for married men between 20 and 30 is 6 in 1000, and for bachelors, 13." "Maybe I should get married?" "Why not?" "I'll adopt you." "Fatso." "Nick?" "Do we have enough money?" "Excellent." "I forgot." "Like this?" "Don't bend." "Do it with your 'cheek'." "So let's go to Terioki tomorrow." "Why are you so gloomy today?" "Who scored three times today?" "Did anybody even thank me today?" "So I missed the ball." "Kill me." "Are you crazy?" "We've got enough." "Quit chasing me like a dog." "You're an idiot!" "I was invited to join the adult team." "Today I'll go meet them." "You're selfish." "You'll go without saying anything to me?" "Yes, nothing." "I have to go." " Get under the umbrella." " I don't want to." "You're wet." "You'll get sick." "Quit paying attention to idiots." " Get your umbrella out of here." " Okay." " You'll get wet." " I'll get wet." "Andrey can get wild sometimes." "He has a bad temper." "It happens." "You're friends, so never mind." " We'll get nowhere without him." " He'll be back." "My grandma was a witch." "And then there were three." "Not three, four." "Now you've got me." "Anyway, he'll be back." "Don't panic, Froggy, the swamp will be ours." "Without him, I'd become a pharmacist." "Shoust, come here." " Say something." " I don't know what to say." "Fatso, please don't touch my medicine." "A field..." "We want to build a real football field." "With flags in the corners, white lines, metal nets in the goals, and a referee with a whistle." "And right there we'll beat the Englishmen." "And I want to ride a giraffe." "Sorry." "I was wrong." "I'm an idiot." "I went to look at them." "The team is really mediocre." "And everyone is so conceited." "But their uniforms are from England." "Why do you always twist your face like that?" "You're pretty." "I was thinking about you all night." "I'm going home." "Pig!" "The keys're on the shelf, close up the pharmacy yourself." "Nick!" "Why were you so hard on him?" "You see he's coming on to me." "I see." "I'll come tomorrow when you take the money over." "Okay." "My aunt is confident like you." " Is that a compliment?" " Yes." "Fools." "Why did you bite me?" "So marry me." "You'll go up in the world, I can see." "Hey!" "How do you turn it on?" "Stop it." "No, wait." "Here it goes." ""We want to build a real football field." ""With flags in the corners, white lines," ""metal nets in the goals" ""and a referee with a whistle." ""And right there we'll beat the Englishmen." ""And I want to ride a giraffe. "" " What?" "Just hold me. - Fatso, don't break the chair." "They say the lion ran away from the zoo out of depression." " Why out of depression?" " Idiot." "You're an idiot." "Grandpa Aaron." "What did you say, Sasha?" "Grandpa, why am I me and not someone else?" "That's how it went." "I don't want to be a doctor or an engineer." "Then what?" "Why does the state pay the gymnasium for you?" "I don't know." "Take the clean tablecloths to the pub in the morning." "Do you want me to get you in the circus as a tamer?" "Lions, tigers." "No." "I'm afraid of lions." "Give it to me!" " You've got no sense of humor!" " Asshole!" "When it all started I thought it would take us much longer." "But it ended." "What a shame." "Like always." "Your voice is cracking." "Here, take it." " Should I go?" " Go." " Can I go too?" " What for?" " I feel like it." " Then go." "Why are you running so fast?" "I thought it would take us much longer." "But it ended." "What a shame." "We'll put benches over there." "Yesterday I saw a balloon over there." "It was so huge." "Should we go choose the place for the goals?" "That's where the centre circle will be." "A month ago I decided to lose weight." "Now I don't feel like it." "If you can't do it, don't do it." "It's even better for the goalie." "Soon the goals will be bigger." "Keep eating." "Merchant!" "Merchant!" "Open up, it's Shoust." "I brought the money." "Quit sleeping, open up." "What did you come here for?" "You should've stayed in Kazan and done business there." "Where is the money, Merchant?" "I found the money." "Funny." " That's my money." " What?" "His money." "I'll kill you." "What?" " What?" " Nothing." "Grandpa!" "Shoust!" "Three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten..." "Fifteen..." "Merchant!" "Let me go!" "Merchant!" "That's it, I'm leaving." "Where will you go?" "Don't go." "My father's heart is so weak." "If he finds out what happened, he'll get sick." "Sasha!" "Sasha!" "Stop!" "Where are you running?" "Calm down!" "Calm down, old man!" "Misha!" "Screaming just ruins your nerves." "Masha, return the glasses." "It's a bad sign to walk with an empty bucket." "I gave the glasses back." "They say we've heavy casualties at the front." "They're lying." "Where are you going?" "You can't go there." "The sky was exceptionally clear yesterday." "So what?" "That's a beautiful horse." "Give me a cracker." "What's the matter?" "My stomach hurts." "I wrapped it up, but it still hurts." "Line up!" "Line up!" ""Wilhelm for war got his powder gorged himself on chowder." ""He crapped his pants so sour and died the very same hour." ""His wife was sitting neat on a crummy filthy seat" ""With paper in her hand She sat moaning there so bland." ""Then they dressed up Wilhelm in a shabby uniferm." ""And buried him in muddy loam So far away from home. "" "Bad enough he was left alone, but now he's got... food poisoning." "I couldn't sleep." "A sleeping pill didn't help." "I can't just leave him like that." "It's war everywhere, at home, over here, complete madness." "It used to be Petersburg and now for some reason it's Petrograd." "It's the end of the Epoch." "I'll move to some warmer place." "Why do I need this chandelier?" "What a pity to leave." "She still has cross-eyes." "I came here from Belgrade and became an actress." "A second-rate one." "A little one, just like that." "Then I got married and my husband... died of course." "He left some money, so poets and artists started paying visits." "A few became my friends." "In fact, I was a nobody and I still am." "But I never took anything from you." "No." "You're wonderful." "I'm not selfish, am I?" "You're selfish." "A wonderful egomaniac." "Don't go." "Let's get married." "What happened with the child is my fault." "No, no." "There's a kind of governing principle here." "Children can't become happy with that kind of father." "It's like they inherit his fate." "He looks so much like Vita." "But she called him brother." "Silly." "She ran from Sarajevo to escape the war but died here." "I lost my dog." "Did you see my dog?" "Did you?" "No." "The train's coming and he's disappeared." " Did you see my dog?" " No." "Sorry, I got sick." "Though I tried not to." "Come on, don't worry." "You too, don't worry." "When it all ends..." "If it all ends, I'll come back." "That's it." "Andrey!" "Andrey!" "Hi!" " Do you want some cotton candy?" " Yes, thanks." "Let's take a walk." "You look sad." "I'm not sad, just the opposite." "I walked today looking for Germans, but they're all hiding." "What do you need Germans for?" " What?" " What do you need Germans for?" "No reason." "Aren't they an awful orchestra?" "As if nothing happened - no officers, just nothing." "Yeah?" "I wrote a new song." "Want me to sing it?" ""A boy is watching a white ship disappear at the horizon," ""In bright and sunny weather" ""An umbrella of black smoke follows it." ""The ship will soon be out of sight forever. "" "Not bad, eh?" "Do you want me to tell you something funny?" ""'When I leave I'll feel dead-sad and will see my past in reality. "" "It's not mine." "It's all like a mirage." "Take it." "Reds, Whites, revolution." "My boots are worn out." "I want to sleep." "They're so stupid." "We sold uncle's books to buy them, but so far no chicks." "Only Nina and Andrey are multiplying wildly." "While everything is falling part." "Who's to blame?" "There's nothing wild about one child." " Take off your coat." " Where's Andrey?" "Trying to get some food at the dining-hall." "The phone doesn't work." "It's not my fault." "Nina, let's not start a scandal." "It's not me." "Everyone died except me." "Funny." "This is Pasha." "Hi." "Your uncle just refused to eat." "There was nothing I could do." "All in one year: first father and then uncle." "He was screaming it was my fault... and he had to be at the front." "That's how it all ended." "Aunt, let him go to Andrey." "You'll feel better." "Quiet, quiet." "Andrey!" "How come you're here, you haven't read anyone but Fennimore Cooper?" "Nina's a poet and I'm like a member of society now." "So your wife is Pushkin?" "Maybe you'll express some joy over your brother's arrival?" "Hello." "Hello." "Hello." "Here, herring with potatoes." "My wife and I had a dream that we were herring and potatoes." "She was herring and I was a potato." "Or was it the other way?" "She was a potato..." "Yes, like that." "Who's that?" "God knows." "Some writer." "Blom... or Blok..." "He keeps asking me when the Epoch started falling to pieces." "I have no idea." "It's all over." "It's like Aunty asks:" "'When did this all start?" "'" "I don't care." "Isn't it funny?" "Our stake." "But the other's missing." " What about Misha?" " He just disappeared." "They all disappeared." "They were living and suddenly disappeared." "They say Chura died." "He came back from war, got drunk and was run over by a tram." "It was the last tram in town." " There used to be a lot of them." " A lot." "Nina's pregnant again." "I realized I'm the same age now as dad was when he married mom." "I've been dreaming about uncle lately." "I close my eyes..." "He starts telling me something," "I feel kind of ashamed." "I also tell him something, but he doesn't hear me." "It's all over." "It's over." " A ball!" " Yes." "A gift from Pskov town." "An English one!" "My God, how can you do it a hundred times?" "Practice." "I'm still the same and you already... have a wife and kids." "I haven't learned to juggle, but I've learned to run." "Once we were running away from the Germans." "I realized I'd never run so fast before." "One day we will absolutely beat them." "For sure!" " You know what I think?" " What?" "We'll build a stadium and put together a team." "Look, Baldy!" " Andrey!" " Baldy!" "It's you, Baldy!" "Give me the ball." "We'll survive everything." "We already have." "Of course we'll survive!" "It's like a dream, like fog." "I'm a genius." "Give me the ball." "Watch, here comes the record." "Look!" "It's my ball, Baldy!" "Let's run!" "Wait!" "Where are you going?" "Baldy, don't touch my ball!" "Nikolai!" "Nikolai!" "Andrey, cover me!" "Come on, smash it!" "Nikolai!"