"A trick." "The ball is here, and now it isn't..." "Where's the ball?" ""Our school has achieved great success in its development."" "You know what?" "I love dogs." "One day I learned that the dog of a friend of mine is about to give birth." "And I book for a pup." "She says:" ""Sure, I'd love to give you a pup."" "They were so cute!" "One was all black." "So lovely!" "I ask her for that one, she says: "He's yours."" "In the meantime I brought him some delicacies," "And also bought him a feeding bottle." "And when the pup is big enough," "She says: "You know I've been offered 30 rubles for that pup?"" "When she said that I really felt bad." "I said: "No, thanks." "I don't have 30 rubles." "And I don't want your little dog any more!"" "High school in our country is free, compulsory and universal." "The idea that all men are brothers is foreign to the bourgeois," "But this doesn't mean he's against friendship." "He may be friendly toward his neighbors if that doesn't compromise his well-being and serenity." "The principal trait of the bourgeois is indifference to public interests, towards his fellows..." "Unfortunately this indifference seeps also into the best hearts." "Even more than indifference, it's the individual's habit to stay in the corner." "Indeed, often we stay in the corner because to help someone may result in personal inconvenience." "That vile attitude has to be definitely eradicated." "An individual should be like a sun, keeping warm those around." "Ivnikov, what are you looking at that's so interesting?" "I'm counting the bourgeoises." "Get up!" "Here are your mates too, you should respect them." "Respect is a feeling, not a duty." "Get up." "You already are." "Why do you always chew something at the lesson?" "Why?" "Why don't you tell me what you think about me?" "Masha!" "I know your book is more interesting than the lesson, but the exam will be on another topic." "Nikolaj Alekseyevich knows that this book is more interesting than the lesson." "The teacher is not pleased that the exam will be on another topic." "But Masha knows it by heart." "I know it by heart." ""If, after completing the school, the pupil will want..."" "It's better to write it down, it will be easier to memorize." "It will be easier to memorize." ""If, after completing the school, the pupil will want to go on with the studies, it would be better to try a real job beforehand." "You'll have all the time to think about your future!" "If you decide to enroll to university, you'll know life in a deeper way."" "Good, but I can't let you out." "If the didactic director finds out, there will be troubles for us all." "Allow me to read you something." "Allow me to read you something." "What should I do?" "I want to know what you think about it." "Who will give me a hint?" "I really want to hear your opinion." ""Studying is light, smoke is wreck, doubts are delirium."" "Anyone else?" "Ivnikov!" "He snatched a girl's bag, but he couldn't run away." "Why do you keep silent?" "Why don't you take notes?" "Do you think you already know it all?" "Why don't you take notes?" "I don't feel like it." "Why are you here then?" "None of your business." "Go out, you're interrupting the lesson." "Leave me alone." "Look!" "Gladiators!" "What a horror!" "Terrible!" "Crazy!" "The A B C of good manners!" ""A, B..." "C, D, E..."" "Do you want to say anything, Masha?" "We want to dictate." "OK." ""Our school has achieved great success in its development." "High school in our country is free, mandatory for all." "Those who graduate will be able to do anything," "Enroll into professional or technical schools or into university." "Those who graduate will be able to do anything," "Enroll into professional or technical schools or in university." "If after completing the school the pupil will want to go on with the studies, it would be better to..."" "Don't make noise the next 5 minutes." "You have all the time to think about your future!" "Comrades, you're watching the TV program "This amazing reality."" "Good morning comrades." "We've shown you the documentary "The mystery of the egg and the chicken"," "Which deeply moved our audience." "We've been flooded by letters..." "Come here, please!" "Come here you all." "Don't be afraid to come closer." "Eat, food is good." "Come!" "It's very good." "Come and don't push." "What a bad aunt," "She cheats the little ones!" "Give it back to me, auntie!" "Good Misha." "Take it." "Go, take it." "You're evil!" "Beautiful shoe!" "You've got dirt on your knees." "He stinks." "Let's go!" "What are you doing?" "I'm tired." "You're evil!" "Leave him alone." "Stop it, he's sick!" "You are sick yourself!" "Stop!" "Stop it!" "Help!" "Bad girls!" "Help!" "I'll kill you!" "You filth!" "Go away!" "Stop it, shut up!" "Shut up, you wretch!" "Go away!" "Moron!" "Let's play." "Calm down, they went away, it's all right." "Write, good boy." "Here." "Ivnikov, you're a very good person." "You need 100% attendance?" "You misunderstood me!" "Beautiful!" "He misunderstood me." "He misunderstood me." "He misunderstood me." ""I cannot sit, I cannot stand, I can but hang myself!"" "Nobody understands me, can you tell me why?" "I don't drink." "Can you tell me why?" "Hello." "Here's my little ones!" "Here's to you." "Thanks, daddy." "Lower the volume!" "You filthy!" "You wretch!" "Dirty beast!" "Where do you think you're going?" "Come here." "You can't hide." "Stop it daddy!" "Go away!" "How dare you?" "You filthy dog!" "Wretch!" "I hope you hurt yourself." "So maybe you'll finally fix that." "Good afternoon, Galina Vladimirovna!" "So you're home?" "Where did you sleep?" "Is this a good morning or good afternoon for you?" "Good evening." "As you like it." "Do you want to eat?" "I don't feel like it." "Meatballs are ready, you just have to fry them." "No, just a cup of coffee." "Sure, to fry meatballs is a woman's chore." "Anechka works more than you but you don't care." "Why do you neglect your man's chores then?" "Or is fixing the flooring our task too?" "Why are you trying so hard to be a typical mother-in-law?" "I don't want to, you make me do that." "I swear, in a week I'll bring a squad of carpenters." "But please don't bug me this one week." "I asked for a week off work, without pay." "What are you saying?" "Without what pay?" "How much are you making anyway?" "These holidays of yours will be on my and Anechka's pockets." "I just want to work without disturbances." "I never have the time to do anything." "How much is it for a week of tranquility?" "I'll pay you." "Otherwise I won't write a word." "This is not the meatballs." "Hear this." ""I feel my limits," "I see where my goodness stops and I become a beast," "Where I shut my eyes so I won't see..." "Where I don't want to understand, where I shut my eyes not to see." "Money, rage and intolerance have power on me as on the meanest of men." "They sat at the two sides of a long table," "Eyes fixed on the television's glittering." "She munched on nothing, moving her jaw right to left not knowing how sickening she was." "Like he who can't keep his saliva in his mouth" "Or who scratches off the dirt between his feet's toes." "He sat at the right side of the table, unshaved and soft as jelly." "My mother and father." "You could touch their old age!" "It has its smell, you could hear it." "It has its smell, you could hear it." "It was the most tangible thing in that room." "I hated old age." "In them I saw just this." "I hated them for being my parents" "And I hated myself for that hate." "I was sickened to see that my habits are those of my father." "And I hated him for this likeness, because I will age just like him," "Because I am ashamed of these thoughts, these feelings." "And it was infinitely multiplying itself, like a reflection between two mirrors." "A neverending tunnel of hate." "The walls made of hate, the floors made of hate." "Hate mixed with disgust, shame, with weakness." "The only way out led to cruelty, and the other to restraint, that is to lowered eyes because you can't mask their instinctive look." "This is the silence similar to severed fingers of the man clutching to the boat trying not to drown..."" "Do you like it?" "Yes." "Is it a novel?" "Or a short story." "Anyway, you have to hurry if you want to make some money." "Like your friend Serjozha." "He's already member of Writers Guild." "I don't understand, can you explain?" "Your parents are good people." "Where did this millionaire's craze come from?" "And about your novel, you still have to write it." "Writers lead a humble life, they're not so rich." "To be rich you have to save." "Don't drink coffee 180 times a days in such big cups." "I'll fry the meatballs, pass me the pan." "Where are you going?" "Where are you going?" "Can I have some caviar?" "If you want to." "Open the third can." "Kolja, my love, you finished all my mother's supply!" "There's a lot of vitamins in caviar, doctor says I need them." "What's up?" "What's more important to you, caviar or my health?" "You still have not finished the second can." "Open it, please." "Mom, we are hungry as wolves!" "Kolja, did you eat all caviar?" "Sorry, we have reduced your supply." "You said I could have some caviar." "I thought you would eat just a little!" "Anyway, its "best before" was two months ago." "I just want to be sure you won't have to beg when I'm dead." "Let me die in peace!" "Don't say so." "Don't worry," "When you're dead, you won't care if we beg." "We will die too, it's not your privilege." "It's trivial, but it's not clear to me." "Why should I study, learn wisdom and then just accumulate honours and wealth?" "So I would be better off going to sleep now, never to awake again." "Not even your daughter understands you." "What's so difficult to understand in me?" "Your incommunicability." "There's a joke about it." "Incommunicability, communicability in common," "Not a common ability..." "I have insomnia." "Really?" "What a symmetry!" "When you die, we'll be alive." "I know." "Where's the box that was up there?" "It's right here, can't you see?" "Are you blind?" "I thought you took some days off so you could write." "Why are you doing nothing?" "Thanks your mother!" "I can't work like that." "When talent is missing, one worries about conditions." "Some people worked in worse conditions!" "My love, everything's going to be alright." "We'll never quarrel again, won't we?" "I'm not asking too much, I think, just some tenderness." "Call me Anechka." "Come on, call me Anechka!" "Anechka." "Don't get angry with my mother, she's such a good woman." "I'll do anything for you, I'll cook and I'll iron your shirts, while you'll be writing a long novel, or a shorter one..." "A poem, a short story... or something else." "Damned stinking cats!" "At their leisure, and they're not even ashamed of it!" "I really don't know what to do with these cats!" "Stupid stinking cats!" "Easy life, and they're not even ashamed of it!" "Stupid cats!" "Are you at home?" "Why so early?" "If I had come later, you would have asked "Why so late?"" "That you're smart, I already knew that." "What did you say?" "I know you're quite bright!" "Are you hungry?" "No." "I'm going to warm up something for you." "I don't feel like it!" "I can't remember..." "Where have I put those bags?" "Come on, dinner is ready." "Egoist!" "Have something to eat." "I don't feel like it." "Come on." "I don't feel like it." "So who have I cooked for?" "I'm not hungry." "Why do you make a fool of me?" "I don't feel like it." "Mom, who's Shakespeare?" "What?" "Who's Shakespeare?" "What does it matter?" "We're not at school." "Once upon a time there was a woman and all she needed in her life was a piece of bread." "She lived her life and then..." "quick into the grave!" "Pat me on my shoulders!" "Do you love me?" "Yes, and so?" "Nothing, I'm happy." "Don't look at me!" "Why, do you feel like crying?" "Go to hell!" "OK, I'm going." "Where are you going?" "To hell." "I was only joking." "Me too, I'll take a stroll." "Don't get into fights with anyone." "I won't." "I almost forgot, I bought you a mouthpiece." "My dear sheet music..." "Can I have a few minutes of your time?" "We took them out of town but they bring them back." "Hello." "There are so many of them!" "What does that have to do with me?" "Sanitary commission came here and said... that we have to call a knacker." "Are we going to call the knacker?" "Are we going to call the knacker?" "Call the knacker, what's it to do with me?" "Due to my illness, I ask to be placed on leave without pay." "Who tamed them?" "You tamed them!" "Dog has always been man's best friend!" "It's out of the question." "I have no substitute." "Vissarion Iosifovich, I'll find a substitute!" "Something's happening to me, I can barely walk." "I'll go see a doctor and get a medical leave." "Then you'll have to pay my salary." "No need to worry about that." "Go see a doctor!" "If you need my support..." "I don't need your support." "I called a friend in the press, they'll support me." "I thought you had some position in this situation." "That you care about the future of our school." "Are you going to defend your position?" "Are we going to call the knacker or not?" "Call the knacker!" "Or don't call the knacker, I don't care." "Put this hat on." "Pass it to me." "Look." "How do I look?" "Relax, take it easy." "Keep your head this way." "That's it, freeze!" "I can't see myself." "Relax and look at the mirror." "This way?" "All that matters is that I can see you." "Don't look at me, look at her." "Here, perfect!" "Masha!" "What are you doing here?" "Where's my sister?" "Wonderful, just wonderful." "Don't move the curtain!" "Who is it?" "We're playing here, close the curtain!" "Show us your ID." "Will you play, little brother?" "Pasha, tell him the rules of the game." "We're creating a sculpture of love." "They are the raw materials." "You can use whatever materials, and do whatever you like." "This material is already taken." "They're free, you can use them as models." "Will we finish the scene today?" "You're a bore!" "Is it a fault of that witch of yours?" "What did you think?" "To marry the first one you met?" "Can I give you some advice?" "You'll give it to him later, my feet are freezing." "Let me warm you up!" "Get dressed." "Hurry up." "Undress, get dressed again..." "What a bore!" "Lay with your bellies up, your hands on your breasts." "Give them two candles." "They should be in the kitchen, if Julia hasn't used them all." "What a happy sculpture!" "Is he your brother?" "He's an aesthete, a decadent." "He's a teacher!" "I would call it "the end of a love"." "This love can go to hell!" "Take his place." "Get up." "He always wanted to stand out of crowd." "Oh, dear sister!" "If you could know how long I dreamed to lay down here," "On our parents' bed!" "So soft, warm and quiet." "I've had enough of this!" "Let's go away." "Sentimentality!" "I think it's not bad." "Take my hand." "Are we leaving?" "I'm playing too!" "You're not funny." "Go to hell!" "You know the rules." "Explain them to me again." "You have to make a sculpture of love." "A celebration of the human body, like Rodin." "I didn't know that!" "Get naked." "The triumph of the senses!" "And now?" "Kiss." "Sure, it will be a pleasure." "Here you are, such a little love." "Little!" "Take my place, if it matters so much to you." "Is he Nikolaj?" "He is Julia's brother, isn't he?" "Yes, he is." "Don't spoil the game." "It's my game!" "What are you waiting for?" "Go away!" "And take Pasha with you!" "I knew you would come to visit your sister sooner or later." "Let's go to church and get married." "Let's do that!" "The ball isn't here, the ball is here..." "The children hate the school, they hate it!" "It's terrible." "They're always running away, I see them from the window." "Always running away!" "We can shut the door and the windows, to guard them..." "So running away from school will be like escaping from jail." "But you can escape from jail nonetheless!" "The schools are educational institutions serving the State." "Formerly the State had the need for the citizens to be slaves, compliant and obedient." "Low job productivity used to satisfy everyone, and it was the fault of the "emasculated" citizens." "The schools, at the order of the State, castrated the members of our society, giving birth to moral castrates!" "Read Turgenev, "Emasculated Fathers and Sons"!" "What?" " "Emasculated Fathers and Sons"" "Since we are castrates, we can only create other castrates." "What do you think of it?" "I don't understand." "What castrates are you talking about?" "We castrated..." "I don't understand." "What was first, the chicken or the egg?" "Do you understand now?" "What does this have to do with castrates?" "Turgenev understood, we don't." "I'm not following you!" "What was first, the chicken or the egg?" "What has this to do with castrates?" "Think about it." "You think about it!" "Comrades, let me talk." "Don't do like that." "I 've participates in teachers meetings all my life," "We have to stop quarreling and insulting each other!" "We have to respect the hierarchy." "Wait for your turn." "Don't interrupt the speakers!" "Today the State needs a different kind of citizen." "Free." "Whose creative potential will not bear the burden of the old dogma." "This brings a certain unpredictability in the behaviour," "A certain incongruence." "Teachers' duty is very difficult," "But in this way the students will grow intellectually..." "I understand, you want to send the most experienced teachers into retirement!" "Why do you think so?" "Four principals were changed since I joined this school;" "and if a student was late, it was always his fault." "But now?" "Now it's all our fault." "Nothing to say." "Really nothing to say." "You are so rhetoric!" "We have to find a solution, not someone to blame." "Do something yourself!" "Do not talk to me in that tone." "It's like a muffler." "If it's not there, the bike makes the hell of a noise but..." "Now you no longer need us!" "Right!" "You don't need our experience, our Ph.D., you spit on them!" "Nobody needs anything!" "Are you trying to teach the teachers?" "Yes, I want to teach everyone, demagogues and pedagogues!" "Excuse me, how many "m" in "tomorrow"?" "I'm confused." ""TO-MOR-ROW"" "And just one "m" in "communism"!" "It's unbelievable!" "Now, this is too much!" "Comrades!" "The meeting shall go on." "Just ignore him." "Let him sleep, maybe he's sick." "Do you know he was hit by a student?" "He hit the student first." "In any case, they had a fight." "Don't wake him up." "Maybe he's narcoleptic." "We should fire him!" "But he's sick." "It's a passive way to protest!" "It's a moderate protest, inside the bounds of legality." "He shouldn't have played basketball with the boys." "This way he brought into question the teacher's authority," "He destroyed the psychological barrier..." "That game is all about physical contact!" "But he's so young and full of energy!" "And nobody else was going to do that." "Stop it, please!" "Irina Pavlovna, the school is not an island where you have to survive," "It's all one with society." "Exactly, and we have to obey certain rules." "School is like the military, like prison," "We're not at the zoo." "Accordingly to you every teacher is bright, has a talent." "And the boys are all geniuses." "I'm sick of this silliness!" "RECYCLING DEPARTMENT [knackery] Lost and found animals" "Hello." "Please let us in." "Just for a few moment." "Just for a little while." "We won't stay long." "It's not allowed." "We can see you're a good person." "I know nothing." "It's not allowed." "Just a moment!" "I know nothing." "Let me help you." "Where shall we go?" "Will you take us there?" "Follow me." "Do you work here?" "No, I rest here." "Don't you have to unload?" "I haven't caught any dogs today." "Is there a line at the counter?" "Yes." "What's easier to catch, a dog or a cat?" "It's easier to catch a venereal disease." "Here's the kennel, that entrance over there." "Which one?" "That one." "Cat and a dog, what's easier to catch?" "A venereal disease!" "My God!" "PEOPLE DON'T LIKE TO LOOK AT IT." "PEOPLE DON'T LIKE TO THINK ABOUT IT." "THIS SHOULDN'T BE REFERRED TO" "IN A DISCOURSE ABOUT GOOD AND EVIL." ""Sadness has scattered everywhere, a bottle full of sadness has spilled." "Sadness soaked everything, clouds, clothes, rain, sounds, dust, flowers, bed sheets, thoughts, hairs, smiles, drinks, bread, sleep, dreams..." "Night and day alternate lazily." "Soon these memories will disappear" "We'd better not to evoke them again, they are like microbes, they are asleep."" "From fall '46 until '47, right in the middle of summer..." "It happened in the steppe." "Me and my father were shepherds." "I had taken his place that day, I was with a friend." "While we were taking the animals to the drinking trough..." "It was noon." "All of a sudden, on the road to the drinking trough, the same road that led to my house," "I felt something moving inside of me." "More or less 30cm in length." "I put my hands on the stomach, like that." "That thing kept moving for almost 6 hours." "I ran home, 15 kilometers, without saying a word to my friend, so much was I scared." "I went home to my parents." "I can't remember if I was crying, but it was clear I was distressed." "They asked me what was the problem." "And I told them of that time, between '46 and '47." "I was dating..." "a girl." "She wanted me to visit her every evening." "I didn't," "I only visited her when I felt like it." "So she decided to make me food... minced snake skin." "And so she did." "Maybe she wanted to kill me without having to pay for her crime." "I remember that evening, I asked her for a drink." "I was laying on the bed." "She stopped near the window and she dropped in my glass something from a piece of paper." "She was looking for something outside of the window, but it was dark." "When I felt that thing for the first time," "I knew she gave me a strange potion..." "Go away, let me work!" "Take a broom and get to work too!" "Leave me alone, are you crazy?" "You're ripping my buttons!" "I'm going to scratch your face, damn you!" "Leave me alone, you moron!" "I'll tear off your hairs!" "Go away, out of my way!" "Leave me!" "Don't pull me, your tearing my clothes!" "Stop it!" "You tore everything open!" "Look out!" "Shouldn't you be at work?" "Do you really have nothing to do?" "Quick, go back to work!" "Now look at that!" "Come on!" "There was a young doctor, and he was sick too." "He was a dentist, and he often went philandering." "He did something wrong, and they made him drink that stuff." "He was in pain a whole year, and they couldn't find the reason." "X-rays showed nothing because that thing has no bones." "The only way is to operate on the person while it's still alive." "That's the only way to save the man." "That dentist died." "When they opened him up, he had his belly full of snakes." "He didn't make it." "Amongst all animals, snakes, frogs, lizards and spiders have certain chemicals on their skins..." "Common closeness of colours, spontaneous complementary hues..." "Violet alongside yellow, red alongside green," "But what a strong choice, the blue close to the orange!" "You can mingle blue-green and red bordeaux too." "So you have a more complex range, dissonant and yet harmonious." "The greatest painters know how to take the beauty to the borders of ugliness" "And here the perception lay, because absolute harmony is death." "Even women know that it's necessary to combine the clothes in the right way," "Lay down only one color." "One can make up a new way to bring two colors close to each others" "A way that exists in nature and lasts only for a few moments, like a rainbow." "The most incredible things are close to those most common." "Why are you so yellow in the face?" "Take off those glasses." "Your eyes are red." "Too many joints, isn't it?" "So young and already a junky!" "You are skinny, your eyes are red and your faces is yellow..." "You're just a poor junky!" "Mikhail Gorbachev said:" ""We have to fight for them!"" "Take me:" "I drink a couple of glasses after a day's work and I still have energy to work." "I drink, I can't say I don't." "But I earned it." "And look at me, what a healthy complexion I have!" "There is a serpent living in my stomach and in my intestine." "You should drink a glass of wine instead." "You'll get your rosy face back again." "It makes a strange noise a couple of times a month repeating it six times more or less." "Possibly it doesn't like tea, or when I get drunk." "I hear everything..." "Look at you." "Hiding behind those sunglasses..." "I'm a drunkard, but I'm an old man." "You have all your life in front of you!" "You take drugs, I'm aware of that." "At uniform intervals." "I'm 42 years old and I'm sentenced to this martyrdom." "I tell doctors about my pains but they make fun of me." "I'm sentenced to this martyrdom." "Nikolaj Aleksejevich." "Wake up!" "Nikolaj, wake up!" "Masha, what happened?" "How did you get here?" "You can't even call it marriage if you do it at the registry office." "What's the use if you can get a divorce?" "Many people live together without marrying." "On the other hand religious marriage lasts for life." "Amongst religious ceremonies, the only one that suits me is funeral mass." "You will get better!" "I'll explain you everything." "Do you know why you're always sleepy?" "I realized it only now." "Since you've got sick, I'm always sleepy too," "Without you my life is sad and boring!" "I swear..." "I'll wake you up, I'll make up something new each day." "There will be no more everyday tedium." "Come with me, I beg you." "I don't like talking on the phone, listening to music, drinking coffee and complaining about life." "I don't like smoking, lighting a cigarette, holding it gracefully and all the rest!" "We'll never do anything of that!" "Come with me, I beg you." "Are you serious?" "But how..." "Now we'll go away together, won't we?" "I took you some clothes." "Here they are." "I tell him: "Fuck you!"" "He says: "Fuck you!"" "I reply: "Fuck you and your mother, your father, your grandfather..." "Spineless bastard!"" "And he says:" ""You bastard!"" "You're just tired, Alyosha." "How much I love you!" "Your smell, your jacket..." "I could die right now!" "Your face..." "You look like an angel!" "I say: "Fuck you and your grandfather, your grandmother, your father, your mother and the cat too!"" "I don't know what crosses my mind." "Why?" "Everything is all right." "I don't know why that happens." "Look out!" "Another one!" "What are you doing?" "And then I tell him..." "Where are we going?" "To my house." "What will your parents say?" "I live with my mother." "If she looks annoyed, just don't mind her, she's very nice actually." "I'll do anything for you." "It will be a joy to cook and wash for you." "And you'll be writing a novel, or a short story, or a poem..." "This is the last stop." "The train won't go any farther." "Passengers, please get off the train." "Wake up!" "Come on, wake up!" "Please, wake up!" "Is he dead?" "No, he's just sleeping."