""Good News"" "The lights..." "Fedora the lights are fading" "Fedora" "I knew it  they're out" "Fedora...a blackout!" "Fedora where are you?" "You know I'm afraid of the dark" "Damn, they're hiking crude oil to justify the atomic energy plants" "Why give us television, if there's no electricity?" "It's a conspiracy" "They are turning us into cavemen again" "Feels like a tomb!" "A sepulcher" "I'm growing cold..." "Fedora!" "The picture window unbreakable!" "Thieves!" "The thieving State" "They're punishing us." "We are naughty." "They're raising... the cost of electricity" "Where are you?" "Stop hiding, please." "I beg you" "Who is it?" "OK, it's you..." "You're afraid?" "As if you didn't know" "Fedora I feel if I were a ghost" "I am one..." "My ghost will hunt this house." "Yours, too ...after death." "Kiss me." "Quick recovery!" "Let's make love.Like two ghosts" "Blackouts are beautiful!" "I'm for blackouts!" ""Still another ruthless political assassination"" ""comitted last night during the blackout!" ""in a crowded street of the Capital"" ""The noted political figure and builder F. Proietti"" ""was approached by two men dressed as policemen"" ""They fired 11 shots, point-blank, without silencers"" ""at his head and neck"" ""killing him instantly"" "325 here, I'm in conference" "Funeral in Catania" "Coaxial cable!" "Rating 11" "Repeat on tonight's news." "Tomorrow's too" "Maybe the day after" "Not prime time, in between" "I'm in conference" ""Funeral was held today in Rome"" ""For Judge Gbia, brutally murdered"" ""3 days ago by masked killers"" ""No political group has yet vindicated the crime"" ""Police suspects he's the victim"" ""of finacial groups"" ""implicated in illicit dealings"" ""And now, some of the grave incidents"" ""that have rocked our italian cities..."" ""during the long and tiring blackout"" ""Bombs and grenades were thrown"" ""In Rome against offices of eminent gynecologysts"" ""In Turin and Padua"" ""terrorists zeroed in on Finance-Police Headquarters"" ""In Genua they destroyed"" "" a transient hotel near the train station!" ""Terrorist action also in Pisa..."" ""Savona and Milan"" "An anonymous call." "A bomb." "We're clearing out" "Great!" "Will you keep quiet!" "Here they come" "The "Cavalry"" "Want to take a look?" "No, let's make love" "You've a mean looking face ...you're mean inside" "You woke with a mean looking face ... and you're dying to take it out on somebody" "Cut the shit" "Have you chosen somebody to clobber?" "I don't know- why the fuck we're still together" "We don't want kids because they'd be unhappy" "Our sex life is...squalied ...and occasional" "We own three-way property" "Dividing it is a problem" "Freezer TV Stereo" "My trailer?" "The coffee's in the kitchen, so get it yourself" "Will you tell me, why the fuck we're together?" "Why renounce freedom?" "...why cling to a mistake?" "I knew ii!" "You chose somebody" "Somebody?" "Somebody to clobber" "You chose me" "Why you cose me?" "You're handy" "Had there been another, I'd have chosen her" "I've no alternative" "No, that's not it" "Meaning?" "That you always hurt the one that loves you" "Idiot!" "What's so funny?" "How rhetorical!" "...holy shit" ""The Saint ?" "Hospital, reported" ""another three deaths today"" ""caused by an unknown respiratory disorder"" "Is that you,Tignetti?" "I need you" "Well?" "Dont be abrupt." "It's a very delicate matter" "Come in..." "You know that death is inevitable?" "Yes or no?" "Yes, I know" "Sit..." "So?" "Everything considered a man asks a little of life before dying" "Continue..." "Before dying, I ask..." "Why is it I don't appeal women?" "What are your feelings?" "Let me think" "Do, by all means" "The truth is I need something more to go on" "Naturally..." "When I'm near one of you I'm not well, I feel uneasy ...it's maddening, unbearable, you know why?" "Excuse me..." "Because I'm eyed as if was something strange, different from outer space.Understand?" "Alien inferior" "Whereas you women for me are everything" "What's wrong with me?" "Let's see" "Get ready..." "There" "Too short?" "Too long?" "Lacks character?" "Too aggressive?" "What nonsense!" "That's not it" "I don't say it isn't important, but it's not everything" "The what's wrong with me..." "my teeth?" "...color of my eyes?" "...my hair?" "I smell...huh?" "Tell me" "Without pity" "Get dressed" "Your wife?" "We never talk about such things" "She refuses the role of the wife." "She's infantile" "She's unhappy." "That's true like me" "Yet she married you." "There must have been some attraction" "She's a pathological case." "Instead of measles, she caught me" "Besides, must we attract wives only?" "There are others.Many others!" "Do you realize how many there are?" "How many...right here?" "There's Maino..." "There's Padovani..." "And Cicerchia, and Spazzapan..." "How 'bout Vendetti?" "Bignardi..." "Yes, there's Guerra!" "And Siciliano" "Neroni" "Ah, beautiful Neroni" "There's Pecoretti" "Do you like yourself?" "Very much...no, not at all." "Then why should women?" "But you.Tignetti...tell the truth ...seeing as we've found a way to be sincere..." "You like me?" "yes" "Then let's make love before dying" "Go f... yourself" "Think about it" "You haven't a chance in hell" ""The clashes..."" ""between police and demonstrators in Milan"" ""continued late into the night"" ""Despite the many arrests"" ""groups of students in the outlying areas"" ""engaged the police"" ""in sudden, violent attacks"" "Yes, speaking" "Gualtiero?" "Gualtiero who?" "Milano?" "Oh, Gualtiero Milano" "What a surprise!" "How are you, Gualtiero?" "...been so long!" "You mean now?" "Immediately?" "Is it really so urgent?" "Well, today is Sunday" "I usually devote the day to my wife, poor thing" "We're so seldom together" "Very well, all right ...at the Cavour Bridge, along the Tiber" "Fedora..." "I'm going down for a paper" "I'll be going down to get a paper" "I'll be back in an hour." "Maybe more" "I no longer love you." "I love another woman" "I'll be back tonight ...be back tomorrow" "Never coming back" "Gualtiero!" "...Oh finally..." "Some pastry?" "No, don't sit let's go away from here" "Bachelor?" "No, I'm married" "My wife's name is..." "Ada" "What was so urgent?" "Keep it for me ...or I'll end up killing somebody ...I keep seeing shadows..." "Who's that?" "Take it back...put it away" "Go on..." "A jeweler?" "You're a bank teller?" "A judge?" "No." "I'm a high school teacher" "Just like my wife" "Then why the fuck carry a gun?" "You teach advanced students?" "No, my pupils like me very much" "Well then?" "Watever might happen to me remember this:" "You've always been my best friend" "Don't forget it" "What the fuck are you saying?" "What best friend?" "15 years we haven't seen each other" "Anyway." "What's wrong?" "Somebody wants to kill me" "I "feel" that someone wants to kill me" "Any proof?" "You don't believe me." "And yet, you must" "You don't believe me only because I am not dead" "Otherwise, you'd believe me." "Even my wife would" "When it happens, then what?" "what'll you say?" "I "feel" it." "I know they'll do it" "Who?" "Who will do it?" "I don't know" "You see that?" "...even a dog!" "You want one?" "All of a sudden, I'm hungry" "Gualtiero, do you, in this very moment, feel... that they're out to kill you?" "More than ever" "Very well." "In that case..." "Let's look at it from another angle" "You're still a Communist?" "No..." "You're not right-wing?" "!" "No..." "You're still a Jew?" "Naturally." "But I don't dislike Arabs" "They're lazy, like me" "Jealous husband?" "I wouldn't say..." "I don't enjoy betraying my wife" "You're rich?" "Almost poor." "My wife is rich...her father ...a millionaire" "Well then why the fuck do they want to kill you?" "All right..." "But I "feel" that somebody will kill me" "One night I went for a walk ...the streets were bare." "Suddenly a car came rushing straight at me, it missed by a hair ...and trashed into a pharmacy." "A Mercedes" "Yet you weren't killed" "But once in a seafood place, the fish was rotten." "Stomach pump." "It's a miracle I'm alive" "It's a miracle all of us are alive!" "Oh, that was nothing..." "I was almost torn to pieces by a dog" "What dog?" "By Arturo" "Did he attck others?" "Many others, but I ended up in a hospital" "For chrissake these things happen to just about everybody" "Don't be morbid..." "Look!" "What is it?" "...drug addicts" "Don't look." "I feel death breathing on me" "I'm not morbid" "Your wife says you are?" "She loves you?" "We've a liberal relationship." "That is, she has" "She comes and goes." "She loves me like a pet" "We're friends." "Ada's a nymphomaniac" "And you?" "I masturbate" "Well, everyone has to solve his own propblems" "Look there..." "You know how I spent my time?" "Waltz" "I do well." "They'll kill him" "Gualtiero..." "Gualtiero...you're not a queer, are you?" "Absolutely not" "Are you sure?" "I'd tell you" "Then why should they kill you?" "Should I tell you?" "I "wish" it" "Why?" "I won't tell you." "Good-bye" ""The cows put to death..."" ""number 1500"" ""They were burned in a tract of land declared"" ""uncultivalable for a period of 10 years"" ""A recleaning program in the polluted area is under way"" "Look." "Doesn't she resemble Bernedetta?" "Yes, very much" "We never invite Bernedetta" "Why should we invite Bernedetta?" "You're friends" "Yes, she plays the lady, and... and I stay back in the kitchen" "You know..." "I feel sorry for Bernedetta" "A son...seperated" "Two attempts at suicide ... and besides besides...she's beautiful" "Very beautiful" "Why don't you say it?" "Yes, she's very beautiful" ""And now, the latest events"" ""in Naples, at the funeral of Assistant Prosecutor..."" "It's years I haven't watch the sun set" "What was that you said?" "It's been years I haven't seen a sunset" "How come so romantic?" "Fuck off!" "Bingo!" "Here we go again" "You, talking about sunsets you, normally so trivial" "You "are" trivial" "I'd say trivial like a fascist" "What the fuck does that mean?" "Why a fucking fascist?" "My paper" "Only fascists talk like you do with "fuck" always on the tip of the tongue" "It's true, I'm trivial" "I know it...fucking well!" "But shit, what the fuck can I do?" "That's how I talk" "Yes, I'm perfectly aware that I should talk differently" "But the trivialities come out by themselves" "If I keep them in...fuck!" "It's like obeying an inner police force ...it's censorship" "I mean, fuck that's not right ...shit...fuck...cock...ass" "You see?" "As they come to mind, they come to mouth" "They're like a comma ...like a semicolon ...a paranthesis" "A period, paragraph, I'm lying" "Not a fuckin' word is true!" "For instance, if I say "cock"" "...I don't mean "comma"" "If I say "cock", I mean just that, "COCK"" "You fucked or cocked 7 times" "Fedora, let me try something" "If I close my eyes...and say cock" "Let's see what comes to mind" "COCK!" "That was no comma, I actually saw a cock" "Let's try another image" "UP YOURS!" "I definetly saw anal inter..." "I need these trivialities" "To defend myself ...against, I don't know" "Perhaps, against spirituality" "Bernedetta!" "It's ready!" "Come, set the table!" "If I say "up yours" I envision having anal coitus, don't you?" "No, forget it" "If I say "cock" I actually see... a penis." "I tested myself in bed once" "I need to be trivial ...as a defense against spirutuality" "You see, dear between 13 and 20 years of age ...." "I resorted to these shocking words" "They symbolized real things:" "smells, fetid odors ...excrement...shit, piss so that people wouldn't see the real me ...my true self." "My heart was soft, gentle" "I was afraid they'd crush it." "Besides ...I loved the shock" "People were actually shocked?" "For instance..." ""Hey"...down there" "What's "her" name?" "Vagina" "I say "cunt"" "Cunt is very derogatory" "You know why you think "cock"?" "Why?" "Probably because you like cock" "Bernedetta" "Bernedetta" "You hear me?" "Hear what?" "Let's play hide and seek" "I'll count to see who's "it"" "She was "it"" "It doesn't matter, but it's just not fair" "Go on, hide!" "I always get the short end ...it's a conspiracy" "Count, Fedora!" "Don't cheat, Fedora" "Through here..." "What are you doing?" "..a kiss!" "..a kiss!" "Not here, behind her back" "Where then?" "...now's the time!" "No, I'm her friend" "Am I not your friend?" "It's between us." "What if I said that I loved you?" "I'd kiss you for less." "I'm weak" "Don't..." "Not behind her back!" "Bernedetta!" "...it's between us!" "Bernedetta, one-two-three" ""Another tragic death was reported earlier today"" ""shortly after 9 A.M."" ""in a Post Office iin Modena"" ""A woman approached a clerk"" ""and consigned"" ""a package"" ""measuring about eight inches"" "Who is it?" ""As the woman was leaving the building"" ""the clerk became suspicious of a ticking noise"" ""and decided to notify..."" "It's for you,sir" "Hold it!" "It wouldn't be a bomb?" "So what?" "It might." "But a woman brought it" "What woman?" "..." "She was beautiful" "What's beauty got to do with it?" "Good luck" ""I'm Ada, Gualtiero's wife"" ""I must see you"" "When?" ""Immediately." "It's urgent"" ""If I can't turn to his closest friend"" ""where can I turn?"" "Naturally." "Where are you?" ""in the garden below you"" ""I have a mauve coat and I'm with a German shepherd"" "Mauve?" "The color, yes." "Be right there" "Ma'am?" "You're Ada?" "Don't worry, he's trained" "You can take this back" "Down, Dako, he's a friend." "Sitz!" "Signora Ada take it back" "I said he's a friend." "Sitz!" "...Sitz!" "The box was Gualtiero's way of asking for help" "Perhaps." "But listen, Madame, I'm not..." "Call me Ada" "Ohh...don't shout." "Dako musn't be aware of hostility Do you understand?" "All right, Madame, but there's a misunderstanding..." "Stop running!" "You're upsetting him more." "Good Dako, come." "The gentleman is the Master's best friend, and so he's your friend too" "Sitz, Dako!" "Signora Ada..." "I knew a boy in school called Gualtiero" "Undoubtedly, the man I met last Sunday is the Gualtiero of many years back" "But now he's gone mad." "He's not the same" "Sitz!" "Sitz!" "You follow me?" "I can't say I know him" "I'm missing several chapters of his life" "The whole second act." "You follow me, Signora?" "I am not Gualtiero's best friend" "I'm not!" "How else I can tell you?" "Don't insist!" "Is that clear?" "It's brutal" "No, Ada." "Signora don't do that...the dog" "Don't be so formal" "...stop it now..." "You're so young." "I imagined you older ...I'm desperate" "Gualtiero came back with a hole in his coat" "He must have shot himself" "He sent the maid away." "Accused her of spying" "I sympathize, but..." "How do I fit in?" "What have I to do with your personal affairs?" "I`m a stranger" "Who are these people?" "It's a bit crowded here" "You fit in, dear!" "Even if you don't realze it" "All these years he only spoke of you ...of how kind you were." "Good and affectionate" "We were...young" "You went to whorehouses together ...is that true?" "It's true" "He also said you both loved ...the same whore." "Is that true?" "Is that true?" "What's this with the whorehouse?" "I must know" "It's like he said" "Gualtiero has sunken into a sort of mirage" "He lives with this morbid fixation" "It's like refusing to grow old" "His little mania" "Is it true he masturbates?" "Certainly, but he doesn't do it in public" "Ah, I wasn't sure" "It's another of his infantile games" "You fetch!" "In conclusion he's crazy." "And the story he tells isn't very credible" "Do you think it's credible?" "Sounds incredible to us, not to him" "He's like a hunted man in a gangster film" "Like that film by Siodmak... to make his story more believable" "Gualtiero might even do himself harm!" "Kill himself..." "I'm afraid" "I'm afraid" "Well?" "We'd better go" "There's only one way to avoid his killing himself" "The nut-house?" "A psychiatric hospital, an asylum whatever." "Even electroshock" "If he's crazy, he's crazy!" "There are plenty of hospitals and doctors ...we'll do what we can ...even... electroshock" "Good." "Tomorrow you'll come over and convince him" "Right?" "I'll see you tomorrow" "No, you won't!" "Don't shout!" "I'll shout all I like!" "Hold the dog" "I can't take the responsibility" "Taking him to the nut-house is your job" "Why the fuck should I?" "Besides,psychos... are creepy." "They give me goose pimples" "But he won't listen to me, only you." "You're his friend" "Only you can convince him to go" "Come on, what's behind all this?" "You doing it for money?" "A setup?" "You want a loan?" "You need cash?" "I'm very wealthy." "And you?" "I want to know you better, and be your friend also" "Come tomorrow." "But don't follow me now" "Stay there!" "Enough now!" "Why?" "..." "Ada..." "Ad..." "Who is it?" "It's me, open up." "But tie the dog" "All right." "Wait" "The dog?" "The dog's not here" "What about Ada?" "She's out with the dog" "She coming back?" "Who knows?" "She comes and goes" "She's busy with a doctor" "This..." "This is yours" "...one never knows..." "You and Ada agree." "I know because she told me" "She wants to hospitalize me." "Fine" "Your opinions too are worthy of respect" "Only I am not mad" "However, I'll go along" "I'm almost through packing though packing horrifies me" "You went ahead and packed?" "Why not?" "You want me in a hospital!" "Very well." "I'll gladly go with you" "I trust you" "I'm in your hands" "I'll do whatever you want." "But will you... visit me?" "Me?" "You won't abandon me?" "Certainely" "However, be it known, that the hospital may turn out to be my death cell" "That's nonsense" "Today's hospitals are luxury hotels" "Like in the film Grand Hotel:" ""People..."" ""come, people go." And "they" murder me!" "They'll come in!" "No one'll enter except Ada" "And you?" "...and myself" "They should approach somebody employed there ...and corrupt them" "I'll be afraid of every injection ...of every nurse" "Electroshock!" "I'll be given shock treatment?" "Don't faze me" "But "they" could tamper with it..." "All switches and plugs like Christ's thorns...what a death!" "Gualtiero, "they" who?" "Who else?" "!" "...them ...my enemies" "Put these panties in too" "I know, it sounds incredible" "I'm perfectly aware." "But if you two don't believe me" "Especially you, who are my only friend ...it means my story is improbable." "improbable but true" "And the shoe, here ...you can close the suitcase" "What if I weren't your friend at all?" "Well, do you want to be or not?" "Actually, I don't know" "Perhaps not." "I'm sorry" "It doesn't matter if you're not my friend" "You were once ...I'm "your" friend" "Isn't that enough?" "Get the suitcase" "MASTURBATION" "FASCISM" "Ada forced me to come" "You like Ada, huh?" "Yes" "Don't be shy, tell her" "I will" "You want some books?" "Take them" "Poetry..." "Philosophy..." "Ornithology...whatever you want!" "But now let's go" "Hurry up." "They're waiting" "What hospital we going to?" ""Salus Tua"" "Ada and her doctor friend chose it" "Gualtiero, shouldn't we wait for Ada?" "Why?" "We've got the nut, and the nut-house too" ""This is the telephone answering service of Gualtiero Milano"" ""If you wish, you may leave a message after this waltz"" ""Professor Milano, dig your grave, your time is up"" "Always the same, for years" "It's a persecution" "It's a joke" "No, it's them" "It's "them"" "Gualtiero, I'm not going to the hospital" "Shall we wait for Ada?" "Yes ...as you like" "Can you dance the waltz?" "No" "Do you know what "waltz" means?" "No" "It means..." ""sliding dance"" "...in german very interesting" "That's true." "We don't dance when we dance ...we "slide" like this" "Let me teach you how to waltz" "It's nice to dance among men." "It's like dancing with oneself" "The rhythm is one-two-three" "You can divide time as you like" "Why should a year have many days and not only one long day?" "One-two-three." "Lightly, lightly" "One-two-three." "You begin over and over" "When you think it'll change or stop it starts over again." "Sorry" "Come, glide." "Let yourself go lightly..." "Isn't Ada coming?" "Ada waltzes very well" "We won many cups together" "Gualtiero, I beg you I'm fainting." "How can I ever dance the waltz?" "...I`ll only slide and crawl... there's no hope, let me go..." "Who cares?" "The waltz isn`t everything in life" "Don't fall now" "It's not over" "How the fuck have you lived all these years?" "I've lived through terrifying spiritualistic sittings" "Where everything flew." "Chairs, tables, rugs" "I spoke to Offenbach ... to Lehar, Strauss." "Once, even to Stalin" "The sunset..." "let me see it at last" "What sunset?" "Get up" "You see?" "...Ada didn't show up" "Want some advice?" "Don't go looking for her ...she'll call you" "Ada is very busy with the doctors" "With a doctor, to be exact" "Let's go..." "I'm dying to have an electroshock" "Ada sends her thanks" "A certain Ada phoned this evening ...and very sensually said:" ""Thank your husband"" ""I'll certainly show him my gratitude"" "Who is Ada?" "Ada is Gualtiero`s wife" "How was your sunset?" "What do you mean?" "Your postcard sunset." "How was it today?" "I knew it, we've exchanged roles" "Now I'm romantic, and you're cynical" "What the fuck are you saying?" "...and trivial besides" "Very well..." "What are you doing?" "Take over the right" "Haven't the roles changed?" "On the right..." "Why?" "I'm fine here" "Didn't you always...accuse me  of being so conventional" "We'll remedy that, starting with the bed" "There, in my place, like a man" "Big bully!" "On our honeymoon you chose to stay on the right" "It's always the same anyway" "My things!" "Yes, master" "Strange, but from here the view is decidedly better" "I already feel womanly." "How about you?" "How silly. we're always the same" "Nothing's changed." "If only it were that simple" "Be patient..." "The experiment begins now" "Shall we assume sexual roles?" "...let's see" "Let's see want to play the male?" "Get on top of me ...on top..." "Go on, mount me" "Mount me, turn around" "Being the man isn't easy" "You want to see a man?" "Yeah, try..." "Men do that" "You wanted "male"." "What did you expect?" "What are you trying to prove?" "That you've got one, and I don't" "Besides, you'd have to turn over" "With your ass in the air" "Turn over!" "...play the woman, the woman!" "Afraid, huh?" "You haven't got one" "If you want to try with a man, go right ahead ...that's your business ...you haven't got one" "That's true, but you'll scrub the kitchen anyway ...so don't break balls" ""No boom for Italy, reported ISAP statistics"" ""but a rise..."" ""in unemployed and inflation"" "Hello Hello" "As you know, there's some unrest among the employees" "Do you know why?" "Because of the automatic seniority boosts" "Exactly." "We two union representatives have been doing a public opinion survey ...regarding the seniority boosts" "What's your opinion?" "Please" "What if I didn't have one?" "What?" "Find one ...pretty please" "You're not oblieged, Chief" "Think about it" "I swear that I have no opinion" "Besides, it's not easy to form an opinion" "The seniority problem ...is very sad" "Why discuss it?" "We're better forgetting it" "What can we do about it?" "Growing old is an incurable disease as is death" "For everybody" "Right, everybody grows old." "Everybody" "In fact, workers and technicians age and die before office employees department heads." "And you know it" "Many workers don't do a fucking thing all day" "You see, you have an opinion!" "I'm relating a fact" "We workers tend to distort... today's reality, which is bitter and harsh" "These are troublesome times and the fault is also ours" "We're making waves" "You think so, Chief?" "Everything must remain as is" "The status quo" "Better yet, the status quo ...of yesterday" "You mean: factory workers 3 boosts, technicians 6 ...office 9, Dept." "Heads 10?" "No, 12" "You mean a Dept." "Head.... ...ages 4 times faster than a factory worker?" "Exactly" "He's overburdened wit responsibilities that often crush him" "They destroy him." "Cut him to...to ...to worker-size." "Understand?" "Yes" "No" "Look, I'll sustain any strike" "Very kind in favor of Dept." "Heads" "I knew it" "Isn't our common goal, Comrades that of saving the company?" "You rotten fascist bastard!" "Can't you see his a fascist?" "Shame!" "Fascist!" "You free?" "Now, I'm in a conference." "Why?" "I've a question to ask" "Let's hear" "You wouldn't know, but sex for us men is a constant sensation" "I mean the thing itself the "genitals" in other words" "Could you clarify?" "Well, we feel it there" "It's always, like a weight ...a knob" "A protuerbance." "A promontory" "A pouch, a pack" "A tumor" "That too, Tignetti." "Yet at times tiger, hawk, shark" "The question?" "The question:" "Do women also feel this physical presence relating let's say...to their sex?" "Owing..." "the structural differences of their nature?" "That's another thing you'll never know before dying" "Not from me at least" "Telegram" ""Wondering why you don't keep"" ""the promise you made"" ""to come, visit me." "Stop"" ""six 'Salus Tua' Hospital"" ""Via Guttani 85." "Stop"" ""Ada and I anxiously await you.Stop"" ""Your only friend, Gualtiero"" "I brought the cream puffs" "How is he?" "Was it... really necessary?" "Three times." "It's frightening" "He talks with a lisp." "He's like a little child" "I scared you, didn't I?" "I'm not dead yet" "You kept your promise." "A kiss" "I have always had faith in you ...from earliest childhood." "Remember?" "I want to tell you something." "Come close, both of you" "I don't hold you... responsible for my...eventual ...murder" "The only fault you have is that you judge too easily...by ...appearances" "And so doing, you become like all others" "That is, banal" "Anyway, listen to me... have no remorse...when they find my cadaver" "Because they will find it ...big, fat, and warm ...and dead" "Come, Gualtiero!" "Don't start that again" "I managed to spot...two ...of "them"...among the doctors" "One's fat, the other stupid ...when they come, they'll be biting...biting more" "...more than?" "... ...they can chew!" "Ah, I'll show them..." "I'll show them..." "They're mad, not me" "I'm not a Jew who lets himself be killed" "Give it to me" "The pistol...gimme" "You are in cahoots!" "Calm down or I'll call the doctor" "Tell us who they are." "Do you know?" "No." "And I never will" "You'll never know ...another mysery..." "Out!" "Get out!" "Let's leave him alone" "Later maybe?" "No." "You'll hear of me soon enough" "The pastries..." "Come, let's go" "Where?" ""I" sent you that telegram" "You came for me, not him." "Right?" "Yes..." "Come..." "Come, let's talk" "I sleep here, not him." "Just in case, he needs me" "Less light?" "As you like that's too dark" "That's just right." "Whatever happens remember I love Gualtiero." "He's my only treasure" "I'm even jealous of you" "I've often wondered why he loves you so much" "I've wondered why too" "You must have something now we'll see" "What about..." "Gualtiero?" "Be still!" "Still..." "Don't think about it" "Gualtiero is happy" "No need for remorse" "He's happy?" "He knows ...he imagines..." "Don't worry ...we're alone now" "He's not here" "Just us" "I'll do it" "No..." "Be still!" "You're like a stubborn little boy" "Is that why he likes you?" "... ...two little kids..." "I like your t-shirt" "Please, keep it on" "I feel ridiculous with it on" "I told you I liked it!" "Beautiful underwear" "Are they made of linen?" "Beautiful shoes too" "That's it..." "Aren't you undressing?" "No, wait what did you do?" "Why are you afraid?" "You did something here, near the groin" "A strange sensation" "Totally new" "I'll do it again..." "What's wrong?" "Let yourself go" "It's not easy" "I love you ...I could never hurt you" "That's not possible" "What's not?" "That you love me" "Why isn't it?" "Because you barely know me ...you've no reason" "What is this then?" "...what I am doing?" "...this is love..." "I'm in love in this moment" "But you have no faith." "I wonder why?" "Come to bed now, come" "Sorry, but I'm taking it off" "I have to" "Now that you took it off what'll you think of?" "...of me?" "I do think of you" "You're thinking again ...of what?" "Don't stare like that ...keep your eyes closed" "What now?" "You're staring!" "I'm looking darling...you're checking on me" "You needn't worry" "I won't eat it" "What's to check?" "Don't like to be looked at...in that way" "In that way?" "You are always thinking, thinking, thinking!" "You're obsessed worse than Gualtiero is" "You're thinking:" ""What's this slut doing?"" ""How far will this whore go?"" ""Nothing will stop her, the cunt"" "...go on, admit it!" "And get out of my bed!" "Ada, kindly stop shouting" "There are 3 of us here." "Me, you and a moralist ...who stares ...and passes judgement" "We're four: you mind is thinking too" "I think because I feel you thinking." "But I don't have your gift of thinking" "I've a gift for loving" "You think too!" "Goddammit!" "You think:" ""Look at all the tartar on his teeth"" ""The hairs in his nose, and what wrinkled skin!"" "Yeah, that's... what you think" "Besides, in this room, there are 5 of us!" "Us four plus Gualtiero ...5 of us!" "You're ashamed of making love" "Me, ashamed?" "Hey, I'm renowed for being unhibited" "I pity your wife." "She must be very unhappy" "I don't want to talk anymore." "Go away" "I admit it..." "I thought all the things you said" ""slut" was the kindest ...I'm being sincere" "Doctor, listen!" "Come over here" "Here, near me!" "Come, Doctor, I've something to tell you" "Get me out!" "Doctor...don't go away..." ""You're Ferdinando?" "I'm your TV Healer"" ""What have you got, arthritis?"" ""It's four years you've been in a wheelchair?"" ""I'm concentrating." "Keep your eye on my hand"" ""Keep looking." "Look at this one too"" "Look into my eyes." "Without blinking"" ""Get up..."" ""You gotta get up." "I know it ain't easy"" ""...get up!"" ""There's movement." "I can feel it"" ""come closer"" ""Towards me!" "Towards me!"" ""Come!" "Don't fall on me"" ""Touch the TV"" ""You feel the heat?" "You've been healed!"" ""You've been healed." "Shout it!" "Shout it!"" "All right, what's the sighing all about?" "It helps me" "How?" "Fedora..." "Dying scares me shitless" "The two of us are seated here ...at the table, peacefully, tranquilly ...and you're afraid of dying." "It's hardly the moment" "When the fuck is?" "I'm afraid in the toilet, at the movies, the office ...without warning" "That's tough" "To think I confided in you because you say I always keep my thoughts to myself" "They're not thoughts" "They're imaginings" "You "imagine" yourself dying, you don't think it" "Besides, it's not you who has to die...here ...now" "It's someone else ...who knows where or when?" "..." "Call it imagination, but I'm scared shitless" "Anyway, woman don't give a damn about death. we don't have your imagination" "Fedora..." "listen" "If I followed my instincts ...each time I imagined my death" "I'd do this." "Look" "I don't want to die!" "I don't want to die!" "Nurses, doctors, scientists, save me!" "I don't want to die!" "I don't want to die!" "I don't want to die!" "I don't want to die!" "You stink of tobacco..." "If you're afraid of dying then quit smoking" "Please, stop smoking" "You won't die, will you?" "You won't leave me?" "It's hardly the moment..." "What the fuck's that?" "I'm ashamed..." "What is it?" "I'm pregnant" "I don't believe you" "And yet...it's...true" "Who survives us will know" "Who survives us...has to be born" "And who will be born...will die" "Blackout time?" "Abortion?" "Noo!" "..." "Maybe politically speaking, abortion is the right answer ...but I want the child which means that abortion is politically wrong" "I agree" "The child's mine?" "Stupid..." ""A silent..."" ""...crowd"" ""gathered, and fell in step with the funeral procession"" ""owing to a break in negatiations"" ""regarding the question of"" ""automatic seniority boosts for workers and technicians"" ""all TV personel"" ""decided to go to strike, as of now"" ""Good night"" "?" "striking" "What`s up?" "They're?" "Why?" "The company says "no strike-indemnity"" "It's a big mess" "I want death-imdemnity." "Better yet birth-indemnity" "And asshole-indemnity" "When one's a born asshole, he should be protected" "There's the invalid, the aged ...and the asshole" "I had a terrible fight." "I'm still shaking" "I even hit him" "Union man?" "He went white." "Poor thing!" "A midget union man?" "No, my son" "Which one?" "The four year old." "Damn it all!" "...now I am sorry an just ?" ", in nursery school, all alone..." "Goddammit!" "Maybe he's even crying by himself" "My husband's an asshole" "It's his fault, the shithead" "?" "pick the kid up." "There's a strike anyway" "Want to get stoned?" "Fedora, look incredible" "You believe it?" "I don't." "It's not possible" "No, I do believe it." "Everything's possible" "Everybody kills except us." "Everybody steals, except us" "Everybody screws ...except us" "Everybody gets stoned ...except us" "...How come?" "Because we're abnormal" ""Shortly after 9 P.M. this evening"" ""another ruthless murder"" ""Police have already begun an internal investigation"" ""at the scene of the crime in one of Rome's private hospitals"" ""That's the main entrance to the 'Salus Tua' Hospital"" ""We've traced the killer's movements, though it's not certain..."" ""he was alone." "The killer walked through the garden"" ""up to the car belonging to the victim's wife"" ""Inside there was a ferocious police dog:" "Dako"" ""The killer..."" ""slit the poor dog's throat"" ""and then entered the hospital, taking advantage of the fact"" ""that the personel was busy serving supper to the sick"" ""The killer headed straight for the victim's room, no.6"" "Number 6 Gualtiero!" "They got him!" ""12 shots, fired point-blank with a caliber 7.65"" ""The victim had no chance of offering resistance"" ""also because he was wearing a modern straight-jacket"" ""called the mercy shot"" "Gualtiero..." "Ada..." "Ada!" "Ada!" "No, Fedora!" "Why must you shout?" "What happened?" "What is it?" "Fedora!" "They murdered Gualtiero" "Gualtiero...who?" "Gualtiero..." "Milano" "Gualtiero...my best friend" "No...not Gualtiero Milano ...it can't be your friend" "Quiet!" "Let me hear!" "..." "Let me hear!" "Shuttup!" "I can't hear with you talking" ""Masturbation"" "That's Ada!" "Let me go" ""He was an honourable man"" "What do you want?" "Wait" "You stay here." "Quiet." "Besides, you're pregnant" "Good evening, Commisioner..." "I'm..." "Gualtiero Milano's best friend ...can I be any help?" "Do you know who killed him?" "I'm asking you that" "I don't know" "You see?" "You're of no help at all ...that's life" "Just one thing!" "I'd like to speak to the widow" "Not possible ...she's upstairs sleeping" "Where were you at the time of the killing?" "I don't know, they didn't give the time on TV" "Who was watching with you?" "My wife, Fedora" "It was neither you, nor your wife" "So go home." "Good night" "May I?" "Gualtiero!" "..." "We killed him..." "It's our fault" "Ada and I..." "he brought you to this damned place" "They'd have killed him anyway" "Yes, but we didn't believe him" "How could one believe all your stories, dear Gualtiero?" "Who was supposed to kill him?" "Why?" "He had no vices, no secrets" "A spotless life ...an open book" "And yet, even then one dies a natural death he leaves behind many queries which go unanswered" "Take my dog... he died a year and three months ago of old age" "Well, I'm still asking myself!" "...did he really love me?" "...was he a friend?" "My friend...my friend!" "...or was it only because I fed him ...three times a day?" "That...is the question" "To a dog all Masters are equal" "Calm down, or they'll give you an electroshock" "I don't care what they do anymore" "Sounds like a love affair among queers" "How's that?" "I can spot it, believes." "An affair among queers" "You're the one that's queer" "Why're you laughing?" "Yeah, I'm laughing, I'm laughing ...maybe it was all a mistake" "A government VIP is a patient downstairs" "Upstairs there's one from the opposition" "Your friend was in the middle" "What about Gualtiiero's dog, huh?" "Dako?" "Why did they kill him?" "Good-bye" "Why did they kill Dako?" "Why the fuck did you come here?" "The police take note of who's present ...and studies everyone's reaction" "Besides, why all the hysteria?" "He was "my" friend" "You didn't know him" "Quiet!" "Where the fuck is all the grief coming from anyway?" "Come on, stop it" "Look." "Your crying is making me cry" "Imagine if you knew him?" "You'd have slashed your wrists!" "I did know him!" "...and in every sense" "It's his child I'm expecting" "You mean Gualtiero Milano?" "Yes, Gualtiero!" "It's not true!" "It's not true!" "I don't believe it" "?" "it's Gualtiero's child I'm carrying" "?" "or I'll go mad" "I demand an explanation." "No, not now" "How could you do it?" "How could you?" "An accident!" "The pill didn't work" "The pill?" "How come it always works with me?" "An accident, I told you" "We made love...only two times ...three, maybe!" "...two or three?" "I've everything written here" "You even list your dirty escapades?" "No, how manytimes I was Substitute Teacher in his high school ...February25, March 7, April 6" "Maybe four times, say and you made love right away, whore!" "Don't be offensive, or I won't tell you anything" "Well?" "Aren't you a whore?" "I hoped we could be civil about this" "What's so civil about laying my best friend?" "You hadn't seen him... in over fifteen years" "You shouldn't have done it with him" "With anybody else but him" "He's a Jew!" "Did I say?" "..." "I said?" "..." "A Jew I said?" "I said a Jew?" "Yes, you said: "He's a Jew"" "A Jew, a Jew" "You make me say these things" "Look what you've done to me" "Is it my fault if you're a rascist?" "I didn't mean "Jew", I meant "friend"" "With anybody but a friend" "They knew later that you were friends." "Later!" "What I meant wasn`t "Jew", but "nut"" "Fedora, I'm not going home" "My face is a mess" "There's some cologne water there" "How did it get there?" "I met him a year ago... in connection with substitute teaching" "Then one day, by accident, we find out... you were once friends and fond of each other." "And hearing about your youth...was wonderful, really" "He'd tell me...that is" "He'd tell me..." "about your dreams and everything" "That is your dissapointments" "It was like being with another you, understand?" "It was a "transference"" "Transference my ass, you just got laid" "No, please, my love" "The thing was a lot more complicated" "That is I never stopped loving you" "That's not true" "Gualtiero made me understand certain things ...about you, that I never would have understood otherwise." "Never!" "Fantastic!" "Besides, the truth is that he saw in me..." "What he'd see?" "Saw who?" "He saw...if I tell you you'll get mad" "Go on...tell me" "At this point...what's the difference?" "...what's there to hide?" "He saw you" "What?" "He saw you" "He saw who?" "He saw you" "This is like some cheap novel" "A crock of shit!" "...it was only a simple matter of: cock and cunt" "What if it was?" "And so?" "And so what?" "Thank God he only masturbated!" "But why did that son a bitch..." "I hadn't seen him since March ...I swear" "He knew you were pregnant?" "Yes." "Who gave you the cologne water?" "How could he know if you hadn't seen him since March?" "I told him when he called up for you ...the beginning of April" "He started crying." "He was seized with remorse" "He sobbed" "You have no remorse?" "For me only the child counts" "Ada..." "Maybe Ada sent him to balance things" "She gave me the pistol to see if I would use it on him" "Someone did kill him, that's for sure" "Where's the pistol" "...the one in the shoe box" "I threw it in the river" "Why?" "I was afraid of the police in fact, let's be careful, we're the first they'll suspect" "My love..." "Who cares about the police?" "We have nothing to fear" "Oh, I'm so filled with remorse, my love ...overflowing ...to the brim you've got to believe me, love" "What'll we do now?" "We'll call him Gualtiero ...or Ada" "The sunset ...Dammit all" "...it went down" ""From Gualtiero Milano"" ""Do not open"" "Why not?" "Money!" "..." "A bomb." "Everybody clear the building ...you can stay if you like" "You son of a bitch." "Why shouldn't I open it?" "Because you say so?" "Why should I...spend my life putting together a puzzle?" "Do not open" "Do not open" "What shouldn't I open?" "What shouldn't I open?"