"*12 stories of survival*" "Bombay" " A Song For One Rupee" "Bombay" " The Bioscopeman" "I live here in Nagar." "My name's Shankar." "I used to sell balloons." "Now I have a machine." "I make kids happy." "It's how I make my living." "I'm trying to get on in life." "I'll show you my machine." "I earn my living with this machine." "I used to fold and sell balloons." "There's a hero and a heroine and they sing songs." "Then they fight, then they talk, and then they sing again." "Then they go home and fight again." "The hero declares his love." "This happens every day." "It's a Madrasi film." "There's a hero and a heroine." "They love each other, and then there's a fight in a forest." "Then there's a building, and before that there's a party and entertainments." "Then he gets on a scooter and drives off, and then there's the next fight." "he hits out and punches and punches, then he takes the heroine on an aeroplane... and flies far away." "The chicken-seller, the barber... and the tailor Josely have shops next door to one another." "The chicken-seller always shuts up shop first in the evening." "The barber and Josely often work... until late at night." "The barber dreams of having a shop in the city centre, while the chicken-seller wants a wife." "Josely has no dreams for now, he is mourning for his father." "His wife puts his favourite dish on the kitchen windowsill." "A raven comes and eats some of it, and carries off the soul of Josely's father." "Josely works the hardest." "He's the last to leave at night and the first to arrive in the morning." "Then the barber raises the shutters... and then all the doors open." "Mexico D.F." " Traveling Peddlers" "Non-stop to Mexico..." "North Central station, Mexico..." "Three bowls for five pesos..." "Three bowls for five, What an offer, love, three for five..." "Flannels, fabrics, dishcloths, have a look, love..." "Razors, a peso each, just one peso..." "Churros, crispy and hot..." "Chicken feet, chicken, in a broth..." "With or without chili?" " Without." "Without chili, she wants lemon." "Here you are." "And now we'll show you how to prepare the chicken feet broth." "It's very simple." "We remove the claws like this, they must be clean and without claws." "Then we skin them like this... and this is the result:" "perfectly clean and no skin left." "Then we put them aside to wash." "Then we cook them, add salt..." "My name is Patricia Rodriguez Rodriguez." "My husband is called Modesto Francisco Rodriguez." "We make a living selling chicken feet in a broth." "We have five children." "Ana," "Rodrigo, Alfonso, Saúl and Salvador." "My biggest dream is not to live here anymore... to live in the country, to live in my own house." "A lot of people will ask for coriander or for onion." "and sometimes they don't want the broth." "This is how you prepare it, the whole process." "That's all." "Chicken feet, sweetbread, with or without broth, come and see..." "Come here and have a look!" "My wife and I make a variety of dishes... more or less fifty of them." "All different kinds." "E.g. we make peppers stuffed with cheese." "We also prepare shredded meat on the side, beef in a sauce, chicken-steak, pork," "that we also vary." "We have stuffed tortillas, corn patties with pork crackling, and we do variety of stuffed tortillas." "My name is Dolores López Castro." "More than anything I wish to see... the United States or Los Angeles, California." "Haven't you forgotten something?" "Remember!" "Re-entry is not permitted!" "Men: 22 pesos, women: 17 pesos." "Tacos with stew, tacos." "Come and get your taquitos." "Only one peso." "One little peso worth the offer, yes." "Just one peso don't miss the opportunity." "Remember this sound... the car stops at every corner." "Come and see." "See the goods, come and see." "Treat yourself to one more." "Special offer of the day." "Buy one bag of chocolates... and get a baby chick for free." "The chicks come as a present." "Come up to the car, come." "Make your choice." "Just one peso." "One peso worth the offer." "Bombay" " Workers" "I work with dyestuffs." "I work hard." "I earn 50 to 60 rupees a day." "My work is tiring." "I have no choice, so I work here." "To go back to my village I need money, which I don't have." "So I'm obliged to stay here." "Only I know the problems I have, sitting in the sun the whole day, then going home, not eating at normal times." "What should I do?" "I'm worn out, totally worn out." "I'm unhappy." "My name's Akhbar Ali." "We don't steal, we collect things." "We go into the deep water." "We get into the canal and collect these things." "They may seem useless, but you can sell them." "Keep that, that's worth something." "Don't throw them away, he'll weigh them and give you money for them." "They're very good things." "My name's Uttam Siram Bhalera." "I've worked at the harbour since childhood, helping with the catch." "I earn 200 to 400 rupees." "I send the money home... and keep a little for myself." "I eat, drink and enjoy my life." "It's my only job, I don't work anywhere else." "To amuse myself I go to the cinema with my friends." "Then I come back." "I sleep next to a restaurant called Ram Bharose." "Then I go to the cinema again." "Once I saw a really first-class film:" ""The Guns of Navarone"." "The film was very good." "What is life?" "Watching films, having fun with friends and sleeping next to the restaurant, getting up the next day, drinking tea and doing your work again." "Mexico D.F." " Dogs" "I'm El Cuquín." "My real name is Ernesto Martínez Ribera." "I'm the garbage man." "I'd like a career and become a good football-player." "She could've had me." "Had she spent the night..." "at the secretary's office she would've died that same day." "The beauty walked up to him... hot from a day of pleasure but she would not surrender." "She played with him as if she were the lady of the night." "They call me El Gato." "My name is Herminio Levario Velázquez." "I am a driver for the Chimecos Bus Company." "I go from the Pantitlan bus-station to Chimalhuacan and the outskirts." "One day I want to be boss of the whole unit." "Allright, take this!" "Bitch!" "What a swine!" "Get him, Teri!" "Eat him, Teri!" "He made it!" "They call me Rubio." "I'm a professional thief." "I've been making a living like this for more than ten years." "But I stick to my method of grabbing people by the neck... and asking them for their money." "I don't like the more violent methods." "I like to grab them by the neck... and like in therapy tell them to hand over their money." "I'm El Chango." "I like smoking pot." "I'm a guerillero." "Wine, women and pot keeps me going, makes me hot." "I could make love every three hours." "I like to rob and assault... and my life's dream is to have, money, a place and a family... so that my family lacks nothing." "It is prohibited to carry guns or to consume drugs." "I, the Superbarrio Gómez... real phantom..." "and everyday hero by profession... have a message for the world... from the city... of wounds and scars, the city of the dead and the conquerors," "of the demons... and charlatans... and of all the street vendors... in the city of disguises and masks." "This city expands and collapses... it fights to live and survive day by day." "What's the good in knowing that we live in the world's biggest city?" "What's the good in starting each day at 5 a. m.?" "With Tamales and Atol... and then start a ten-hour working day... when life is so short?" "I..." "Superbarrio Gómez... am telling the world... that the absurd... is the cultural heritage of... all mankind." "Moscow" " For A Silver Rouble" "I would like to know... where the beggars come from, said the writer as he watched the beggars." "Where?" "They creep out of various crevices and crannies..." "That's not what I ask, replied the writer." "I desire to know... how one becomes a beggar and gets into such a situation." "Does it happen suddenly or gradually, through honesty or hypocrisy?" "Here you have the ideal opportunity: ask any one of them." "for a silver rouble..." "he will sell you his whole story." "Write it down and sell it with a profit." "It was Springtime, the Time of Gold, three of us ran away from home." "But eight miles from home..." "Sasha, let's see if the new Walkman works." "Does it work?" "My name's Kolya," "I live on the streets, I'm cold." "My parents drink everyday, enough to sink a battleship." "I live on the streets with my friends." "For me, the street is paradise, freedom." "My name's Sasha, I'm 19." "...get her back..." "and find work somewhere..." "I live at a railway station in Moscow." "I'm leaving for the south in 3 days." "The dream of my life is... not to live on the street, but to find work." "My name's Borya, I'm 14." "My dream is to find my little sister Diana... and a flat." "Hey, lads, what's this..." "idiotic rubbish you've recorded!" "Tape something normal!" "Do you have some change for bread?" "For bread?" "How much?" "How much do you want to give me?" "Thanks." "Come on, I'll help you." "Stupid cow." "We'll never get to the sunflower seeds." "Do you have a cigarette?" "No cigarettes for you." "Hey, will you give me some sunflower seeds?" "Please, Auntie." " What d'you mean, "Aunt"?" "Oh, you're a grandmother?" "." "Go away!" "It's nothing." "Calm down." "Michel, Michel, faster!" "Write:" "Last week," "Pasha, Kolya and I ran away from the cops we ran away..." "Yes, yes, from the cops." "With drugs." "...with drugs." "Today we ate three or four times... at different soup kitchens." "Moreover..." "Why "moreover"?" "...we begged half a bag of bread... from Vassilich bag of bread." "Pasha, last week a German TV crew came here, from Germany... they didn't give us crap." "Germany, and we relieved them of 600,OOO!" "Pity you weren't there, because... we spent it all on booze." "Pasha, come and join us." "You'd like it here, because we have even more fun than we used to." "The royal family returns to Moscow." "Tomorrow night a special train will travel to Ekaterinburg..." "Yeltsjn visits China" "Days after the informal summit with the Japanese Prime Minister" "Hashimoto in Krasnoyarsk, Yeltsjn is now on an official visit to China." "Sandrina tensed the muscles of her thighs until they trembled." "She knew that he could feel the slight vibration in her body." "I have read and heard much that is improbable about those times when men still lived free, unbound by any order, like wild things." "In skyscraper chasms there burned the ore, steel surging from the hatches of the trains an aeroplane screeching fell as if weighted to where the eye took leave by the wounded sun." " rumpling the streetlamp bedlinen - the night loved itself void, swinish and taut." "Behind the street suns Luna dragged herself slackly along." "Raissky was indifferent to everything jinn the world." "Only beauty could inspire him with enthusiasm." "He subjugated himself to it almost slavishly, frigid towards everything in which he perceived no beauty." "He demanded not only of the external world to be beautiful, he also did not see the spiritual and moral world as it is." "in its apparent crude and wild contradictions, not as a process that started with the beginning of the world and is not yet completed, but as a harmonious whole, as a splendid, perfectly finished edifice of deals created by himself." "Here, where everyone Loses heart and tires," "I know that only one Has the equal of my strength." "Here, where we make Wishes so rashly," "I know that only one Is equal to me in power." "Here, where the ivy grows for ever," "I know that in my being There is one who is equal to me:" "You." "Mexico D.F." " Love Of My Life" "Life has its surprises and joys... it also has its sorrows" "My Love was sent to me by God" "My happiness makes me want to sing." "In a dark alley that's where they changed four tires." "That's where they delivered the grass." "That's where they also paid him." "They paid him dollars cash in hand." "The boy tells the Black Cloak:" "today we will send you on your way." "Play your part... go and rebuild your life" "I'm on my way to San Francisco" "What took you so long buying tortillas at the shop?" "Look at this mess!" "Sit down and eat." " Let her talk." "Shut up!" "You're not speaking to her." "Don't stick your nose in things." "I'm talking to her, not you." "Mind your own business." "Why are you eating sweets?" "!" "Because I want to." "Don't." "You shouldn't eat sweets." "Hurry now, go take a bath." "Hurry or I'll hit you." "Don't answer me back like that." "I'll answer you back if I want to." "There." "Hurry up." "You must have a bath." "And don't read this." "It's for adults and not for little ones still at school." "And I've had enough of your tone." "You start sounding like me." "Are you supporting me, or what?" "My name is Mariana Parra González." "My stage name is Cassandra." "I work seven days a week." "Once in a while I get a break." "I have three children." "My oldest son is called Edwin Jesús." "One of my daughters is called Angélica Mabes... and my baby is called Claudia Esmeralda." "My biggest dream is... to buy a piece of land... so I don't have to pay rent and will be able to offer my children a future." "Give the pretty Cassandra a warm welcome!" "Enjoy her sensational show, Gentlemen!" "What a woman!" "The most pretty Cassandra, Gentlemen!" "Courage!" "Moscow" " The Fairytale" ""Why are you not cheerful?" she asked." ""I do not know, Olga Sergeyevna. "" ""Why should I be cheerful?" "And how?"" ""Get busy!" "Meet people!" "Get busy!" "One can be busy"" "when one has a goal." ""What goal could I have?" ""The goal is to live. "" ""When one doesn't know why one lives, one just lives, day after day." "One is glad when the day passed, that it is night, and one submerges the tedious question... of why one has lived this day, why one will live tomorrow?"" ""Why one has lived!" she repeated." ""Can anyone's life be pointless?"" ""Yes. it can." "Mine, for example", he sad." ""You don't have a goal of life?" "she asked, coming to a halt." "You're maligning yourself, or you wouldn't be worthy of life. "" ""I've already passed the point where life is supposed to be;" ""I see nothing more ahead of me. "" "She silently kept on walking with her head down." ""Why and for whom will I live?" he said, following her." ""What should I seek, at what should I direct my thoughts and plans?" ""The flower of life has faded:" "only thorns remain. "" "End of side one, tape two." "Side two, tape two." "What have you got for homework?" "Reading?" "We have to read and retell the story of the Little Chicken." "And then we have to write..." "We got a little exercise book." "And we have to write out the words in the exercise book... write everything down." "Is that all?" " Yes." "And then?" "And then..." ""Sew", write "sew"." "Put a comma before it." "This family, this wonderful family, which we have brought together under such difficult circumstances..." "Stiff upper lip!" "The goose went into the hut, threw off its feathers," " Are you listening, Irina?" " ...and lied down in the pan." "When the goose was cooked, the forest gnome told the man" ""Eat the meat, leave the bones. "" ""Don't throw them away, pile them up into a heap!"" "They ate, and the gnome piled the bones into a heap... with the feathers on the floor and said:" ""Goose, wake up, move!"" "And the goose appeared, alive and in one piece!" "Moscow" " Sobering Up" "Sit down." "I have a suggestion..." "You're tired, aren't you?" "What happened after work?" "Just a moment, tell me who's the doctor." "Here's the doctor." "The doctor." "Very nice." "Your name, please?" "Get undressed." " Just a second," "I have the right to know." "What's your name, please?" "I'll tell you later." "You'd only forget it now, anyway." "No, I wish to get undressed on my own." "Just a second, I wish to undress myself." "Don't get in my way, gentlemen." "Breathe in." "Tell us your name." "What am I doing here, anyway?" "Nothing." "Blow your nose." "Then you'll feel better." "What's your name?" "I'll undress myself, you don't have to force me." "That's violence!" "Our superior went home hours ago." "Pull my trousers up." "Well, for God's sake." "Lie on your stomach." "On your knees, on your stomach." "Lie down." "Stretch your legs out." "Lie on your stomach." "Damn you!" " No swearing!" "Really, you're such a greenhorn." "Who's the greenhorn round here?" "Me?" "And what are you?" "Stop it, calm down." "Don't humiliate me!" "Over there!" "Any of the beds." "Here." "I'm being held against my will." "I don't know what to call this..." "Oh, how my Mom wanted to give me away to the first one!" "Oh, the first one wasn't faithful!" "Oh, don't give me away, Mom." "Oh, the first one wasn't faithful." "Oh, don't give me away, Mom." "Oh, how my Mom wanted to give me away to the next one." "Oh, the next one was after my best friend." "Oh, don't give me away, Mom." "Oh, the next one was after my best friend." "Oh, don't give me away, Mom." "Oh, how my Mom wanted to give me away to the fifth one." "Oh, the fifth one was a cursed drunkard." "Oh, don't give me away, Mom." "Oh, how my Mom wanted to give me away to the sixth one." "Oh, the sixth one, he was too short." "Oh, don't give me away, Mom." "Oh, how my Mom wanted to give me away to the seventh one." "Oh, the seventh one, he was merry." "Oh, then he didn't want me!" "I'm not drunk." "What are you doing here, then?" "There, lie down on a free bed." "Sit down." "Straight ahead." "Sit down on the bed." "Take a blanket." "And you over there have a rest." "Good." "Yes." "Right." "Order." "I'm going to have a heart attack!" "I beg you." "Are you human beings or what?" "It hurts." "Aren't you humans?" "It hurts, it really does." "I have two children." "Why do you humiliate me like this?" "I'm having a heart attack." "I don't want to die." "I'm still young." "It's cutting my blood supply off." "I beg you!" "You've got the wrong person." "If there are still any human beings here, help me!" "I implore you." "I want my heart checked." "God, are you all brutes?" "How am I going to feed my children?" "I have a job, I'm a mechanic." "You're such inhuman brutes." "Help me somebody!" "Somebody must check my heart." "Are you all inhuman brutes?"