"Your boss has given you this factory." "What do you think?" "So he's the main character in this story?" "Hasn't this blocked all chance of a workers' revolution in the future?" "Is his act unique, or a general modern world tendency?" "A general tendency, I think" "Can such acts, as symbols of a new source of power herald the transformation of all humanity into the bourgeoisie?" "The bourgeoisie will never turn all humanity into bourgeoisie" "So the not very original answer is:" "No matter what he does, even giving away a factory a bourgeois is always wrong" " Is that it?" " I don't want to reply" "This bourgeoisie is making revolutionary changes in our situation" "It's identifying all humanity with the bourgeois class" "It no longerfaces a class struggle using the army, the nation or the church" "Then it would fail; it would lose its natural allies" "You must answer the new questions raised by the bourgeoisie" "Of course" "What are the answers to these questions?" "God led the people about through the way of the wilderness" "ARRIVING TOMORROW" "Pietro, how about some music?" "Well, do you feel better?" "It was nothing" "Sorry." "I'm afraid it's all rather make shift" "It's fine" "It's been a real invasion" "I used to sleep in this room when I was little" "I'm here" "Sorry" "Your friends are calling you" "You're a serious player" "These are my friends" "What's the time?" "I don't know" " What does it matter?" " It's six o'clock" "It's about a sick man like me" "Even in this disagreeable situation Ivan Ilyich found comfort" "Gerasim came to wash him." "Gerasim was a clean, fresh peasant boy" "What are you reading?" "His life was his and his alone" "It would take longerto duplicate his goodness than to create a star" "The godhead which had come without my hoping for it has not returned, and will never return again" "I like speeding." "Now I'll show you what the car can do" "I believe you, but I'm not young any more" "You're not Gerasim it's difficult to face you" "There are two reasons I must talk to you" "Firstly, there's my moral sense" "Then there's a sort of confusion within me which maybe I can only clarify by talking about it" "You have seduced me, Lord, and I have let myself be seduced" "You have violated me and you have prevailed" "I have become an object of daily derision, everyone mocks me" "For I heard the defaming of many, terroron every side" ""Denounce him, and we will denounce him"" "All my friends awaited my downfall, saying:" ""Perhaps he will let himself be seduced..." ""...and we shall take our revenge on him"" "What did you say?" "So you do talk!" "I must go." "Tomorrow" "I don't know myself any more" "Because what made me the same as others has been destroyed" "I was like all the others, maybe with many faults" "You've made me different by taking me from the natural order of things" "While you were near, I didn't realise it" "Now I understand, you're leaving and knowing I'm losing you makes me aware of my difference" "What will become of me from now on?" "The future will be like living with someone nothing to do with myself" "Maybe I must probe the depths of this difference you have revealed which is the innermost anguish of my being" "But whether I desire it or not, won't this set me against everyone?" "I realise now that I've never had any real interest in anything" "I don't mean some special interest" "Not even ordinary interests, like my husband's in his work or my son's in his studies, or Odetta's domestic cult" "I had no interests" "I don't know how I could lead such an empty life, but I did..." "If there was anything..." "some instinctive love of life it dried up like a garden where nobody goes" "That emptiness was filled with false, mean values with a hideous load of false ideas" "Now I realise it, you've filled my life with a total interest" "So, in parting, you're not destroying anything I had before except perhaps my chaste bourgeois reputation." "What do I care?" "But what you yourself gave me love in my empty life by leaving me you're destroying it completely" "By knowing me, you've made me a normal girl" "You've made me find the right solution for my life" "Before, I didn't know men, but I was afraid of them" "I loved only my father" "But now, in leaving me, you're making me worse than before" "Did you want that?" "Now the pain of losing you will cause a relapse more dangerous than the sickness I had before this brief cure that your presence brought" "Before, I didn't understand this illness, but now I do" "Through the love you gave me I've become aware of my illness" "Now how can I replace you?" "Is there anyone who can?" "I don't think I can go on living" "You must have come here to destroy" "The destruction you've caused in me couldn't be more complete" "You've simply destroyed the image I always had of myself" "Now I can't see anything at all that can rebuild my identity" "What do you suggest?" "A scandal like death in the eyes of society a complete loss of myself" "How can this be for a man used to the idea of order of the future and, above all, of ownership?" " I'll carry it" " No, I'll carry it" "Then let's carry it together" " Have you got a tape measure?" " At once, miss" "Time to eat, miss" "I can't help it." "It's beyond my expertise." "Sorry" "Open your fist, miss, please" "How pathetic!" "I'm a real shit!" "I'm not eating" "You must eat." "It's good" "I don't want to" "Why don't you want to eat?" "It's good" "At least tell us what you want to eat" "We must try to invent new techniques, unrecognisable which are unlike any previous method to avoid childishness, ridicule make our world unlike any other where previous standards don't apply which must be new, like the technique" "Nobody must realise that the artist is worthless that he's an abnormal, inferior being who squirms and twists like a worm to survive" "Nobody must ever catch him out as naive" "Everything must be presented as perfect based on unknown, unquestionable rules like a madman, that's it" "Pane after pane, because I can't correct anything and nobody must notice" "A sign painted on a pane corrects, without soiling it a sign painted earlier on another pane" "But everyone must believe that it isn't the trick of an untalented artist, impotent artist" "Not at all." "It must look like a sure decision fearless, lofty and almost arrogant" "Nobody must know that a sign succeeds by chance... is fragile" "That as soon as a sign appears well made, by a miracle it must be protected, looked after, as in a shrine" "But nobody must realise that the artist is a poor, trembling idiot, second-rate living by chance and risk, in disgrace like a child his life reduced to absurd melancholy degraded by the feeling of something lost for ever" "DOWN WITH ALL STATES" "DOWN WITH ALL CHURCHES" "UP WITH PAINTERS OF..." "Blue reminds me of him" "But obviously blue isn't enough, it's only a part" "Who can permit me such mutilation, what ideology can justify it?" "Weren't my first miserable attempts at portraits better?" "Look at the state she's in, eating nettles" "Lord, what a scandal" "I don't smoke" "Which is the road back to Milan?" "Turn left, then straight on" "What would happen to me if I stripped myself of everything, gave my factory to the workers?" "Let's go" "Don't be afraid, I didn't come to die, but to weep" "Not tears of sorrow" "No, they will be a source..." "but not a source of suffering" "Go away now"