"Return to Oegstgeest" "I'm coming..." "You still give wet kisses." "Want some dinner?" "Brussels sprouts." "And warmth is in the air" "Away dear lady mine" "Let's flee these sights" "What a coincidence." "Looking for inspiration?" "I needn't come home for that." "I remember it all." "You want tea or apple juice?" "No, and I've had dinner." "I used that wedding text in a story." ""Serving the Lord"." "Sewing the Lord, Romans 12:11." "We always kept to it." "In church this Sunday I suddenly heard my name." "Not from our Minister, But some whippersnapper started to preach about a book of yours." "The narrowness of education in the past." "I thought that's about me, your father." "We've always done our best f0 you." "Taught you respect for the Almighty." "It's only a book." "It has nothing to do with you." "It's got a lot of your mother and me in it." "You remembered my brand." " Of course." "As to your books." "How you write about man and wife that's not my cup of tea." " This is a different time." "I live differently." "You call that life?" "Without hope or future?" "You make a mess of it, my boy." "If God should ever call you to judgment..." "And the strong men shall bow themselves when the sound of the grinding is low and he shall rise at the voice of the bird or the pitcher be broken at the fountain or the wheel be broken at the cistern..." "Then shall dust return to the earth as it was." "When you die, what'll happen to God?" "We've got leftovers every night." "Your mother still isn't used to it." "Remember first those big potfulls and now there's just the two of us." "It's grown quiet around here, my boy." "Go now, if you have to." "You can't on the way." "There was a carriage with a false bottom in which you juggled a new baby each year." "Look at his shoelaces!" "Hold your foot straight!" "He won't help, Mom!" "You're old enough to know better." "Flatten it!" "There's a spittlebug in your hair." "Don't fool me." "You pig, you spat in my hair!" "Keep in mind that it's the day of the Lord." "He started!" "Human saliva?" "Look at me!" "Is that saliva on your sister's head?" "You come with me!" "Throw that away." "What's that?" "Come on..." "We'll sit down here." "Paul..." "Stop that!" "You come with me." "Don't go into the sea or your feet won't be dry in time for church." "Yuck, do we have to go to church?" "You don't have to." "You may." " Then I won't." "God's vengeance as it pours out on the disciples." "And it will find us sinners as the plague." "Brothers and sisters in Christ!" "The Lord Jesus Christ died on the Cross for us!" "Let us pray..." "How was the sermon?" "Let one of the kids tell you then I'll find out how well they listened." "What was it about?" "The Old of the New Testament?" "He's being pigheaded again." " Keep out of it." "What was it about?" " About God." "He only opens his mouth to bolt down food." "Ham or cheese?" "First close our eyes..." "We're waiting for you." "Respectfully." "Lord of creation, who fed your people in the desert bless us poor sinners." "There." "What a filthy noises, Madam!" "You fuck off or I'll kick your guts out!" "Get the hell out of here!" "Baboon!" "Can I catch a lizard in the dunes?" "Ask your father." "He's asleep and that'll take an hour." "I don't want trouble with your father." " Just a little while." "Alright, one hour." "You're hurting me." "I need a tin." " What for?" "For the lizards." " That tin?" "You can wash it." "They live in the sand." "Alright, go ahead." "Have you caught many?" "Eight." "I only catch males." " To fry?" "They go into a terrarium." "Why just catch males?" " They're prettier." "I thought you wanted to eat them." "We can fry them alright." "No, the box is too shallow." "They'll jump out if I take the lid off." "I don't believe you've got eight." "I need lots more." "In the valley there, I know a spot..." "It's alive with them." "Coming?" "There are no lizards here." "It's too cold for them." "They need sunshine." "They're cold-blooded animals." "This is the valley of the shadow of death, I thought." "Eat up!" "They're deadly, it says in my book." "It's dead already." "There I keep grasshoppers, beetles lizards..." "I keep them 2 days, then fry them." "Shall we pump?" "Don't you want to?" "It doesn't take long..." "Chicken shit!" "If you squeal I'll find you." "I'll remember your face!" "He's pretending he's dead." "Shall I shake him?" "You keep out of it, and we'll have some peace." "There's dirty weather brewing." "Let's hurry." "Where are my lizards?" " Under the carriage." "Did you put the box at a crack?" " Of course not." "They'll die if they can't breathe!" "Well, that's too bad." "They're not poisonous!" "Shut up, will you?" "Stop it." "And hurry!" "You keep us waiting again!" "It's like the end of time is nigh." "What's that?" "They have suffocated." "And you put that on my sink!" "Don't do that!" "They must be buried." "What's going on around here?" "I tossed those dead things in the garbage." "Taking creatures out of their element is asking for trouble." "You stop bringing them home, understood?" "But it's your fault." "You closed the box!" "You dare raise your voice?" "Your hands will grow out of the grave and be trampled by stallions!" "You'll go to bed without your dinner!" "Nothing could be done, I thought." "They were still alive." "I hear the tiny claws scratch." "I can't help them." "I can't stay awake all night." "The garbage man will be here at 7 a.m." "MARTYRS" "You're a contrary boy." "It's a good thing it's coming off." "Curly hair, curly senses." "Curly outside, curly inside." " Father!" "I will not die, but live!" "Our new lodger, Chris." "The Queen of the Madhouse." " Silence." "We get 8 guilders a week for her." "Respectfully." "Chris..." "Lord of creation who fed your people in the desert bless us poor sinners." "Our Father, let us always search the spiritual bread of your word and works for live eternal." "Lord, come hastily." "Enjoy your dinner." "Amen." "As pants the hart for cooling streams..." "When heated in the chase" "So longs my soul, Oh God, for Thee" "And Thy refreshing grace..." "Off with you!" "Father and mother loved their children so much that God kept giving them new ones." "But after a few years they had no more money and no food for those children." "And they prayed to God." "Lord, give us food for our children." "But the bread-tin stayed empty." "They had to send their children, including Tom Thumb, into the woods." "What do you think, love?" "Shall we send these gluttons into the woods too?" "Shall we send these gluttons into the woods too?" "What'll it be, Mr. Siebelink?" " A bag of Turkish Delight, please." "Go to Van Woerden for Turkish Delight." "One of the kids will go to the stockroom." "Our Jan is a difficult, but good child." "Can I have a bag of Turkish Delight?" "On account, please." "You lot like sweet things, don't you?" "'N skews..." "You're busy lately." "Be seeing you." "Don't let me see you like that again!" "I'll remember your face." "You're a marked boy." "With the mark of the cross on your head." "Roll up that thing and take it home!" "Boys like you will never be happy." "You don't have to worry these days, Mr. Wolkers." "Large families are highly esteemed in the New Germany." "You get a premium for the third child." "And a medal even for the tenth." "Personally presented by the Fiihrer." "I don't need worldly rewards for the commandment to multiply." "But Mr. Wolkers..." "Us Christians must give the Germans credit for they've thoroughly cleaned things up." "What do you mean?" " You know quite well what I mean." "That they who killed Christ are being punished." "When you still wore hides, Jews were already civilised." "Get out!" "You don't look good, Father." "You won't write about the store, will you?" "What's the card say?" "Goldround, an immortally tasty cookie." "Make that "endless", so people know what you mean." "Immortality is entered through Christ." "As good as new." "Go and get your mother." "Look, love." "As good as new." "Pickwick!" "This store is fully supplied." "I don't come for fun!" "Pharisee!" "1+1=3." "2+2=5." "3+3=7." "4+4=9..." "Get your tables." "The tables!" "She can't sleep at home for she wakes the neighbours." "They remove her from the asylum." "Two man put her into a box and tie a pillow around her shoe." "But she kicks it open and the next day she's covered with spit." "Yfiwrg Crazy'" "We can call again this week." "Will you thank Mrs. Lampet?" "Yes?" "Elly Lampet was the prettiest girl at school." "What do you want?" "There's a new baby again, right?" "Mom says you're crazy." "Miss Hakkenberg doesn't lie in a box." "I'm looking for a girl who is willing and able" "To join this fine chap at the registrar's table" "I'm bringing a short-sighted cock for my share" "Now a sweet wife, and that's a pair" "I'm bringing a short-sighted cock for my share" "Now a sweet wife, and that's a pair ...only be conquered by mortal fear of that big bird with his curved beak and claws like fists." "Thank you." " Thank you, what?" "Thank you, Madam." "What did you get?" "Did you thank her properly?" "I hope he leaves soon." " Hi, Jan." "Louis..." "He's a hobo." "The black sheep of the family." "Good for nothing." "Handy, a coat stand." "Cigar?" " No, thank you." "Jan, my boy?" " Louis!" "Squashing them doesn't help." "Or else they'll start on other blood." "That's the way of ticks." "Dad, he's got a frog!" " Messing with cold-blooded animals..." "How many girls have you got by now?" "Where's your piggy bank?" "Our Jan doesn't have one." "Then I can't give him a guilder." "I want to hear it tinkle..." "Get ride of that vermin." " It's my toad." "You want to earn one guilder?" "Go and get a flowerpot." "Then uncle Louis will give you a guilder." "It doesn't fit." "Very good, Louis." "My pleasure." "It's mine..." "Go to your room." "You'll get one later." "Come to your uncle Louis." "Oh mother..." "What a dreadful end." "It's too horrible to talk about." "You can't saddle others with it." "She lived Godforsaken in a remote cottage." "Your father and me came to see her sometimes but we had our activities so months went by without me seeing the dear old soul." "She was on the floor for weeks dead as a doornail." "When your father and I got there we saw the scratches of her nails on the door." "She must have crawled around for days but had no strength to get up and open the door." "You won't believe this but she was encased in vermin." "It was summer, you see." "They had nothing to eat either." "She was hard and wizened." "They'd starved to death on her body." "When your father and I lifted her they fell off her like scales." "Best not talk about it." "Your father had a hard time of it." "You owe me something." "You're supposed to be in possession of your minds." "And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth shall be an abomination." "It shall not be eaten." "Whatsoever goes upon the belly, goes upon all four or hath more feet among all creeping things them ye shall not eat, for they are an abomination." "Ye shall not make yourself abominable with any creeping thing nor make yourself unclean with them that you should be defiled thereby." "For I am the lord your God." "I can't." "I can't anymore." "He couldn't do it." "Wilderness." "We're among men but what she proposed I can't utter." "Mrs. Van Teeng?" "Stop it, phantom." "Heathen..." " Mother of love, mother of plague!" "I am the Lord your God." "Ye shall make you no idols or graven image." "Neither rear you up a standing image." "Nor set up any image of stone in your land to bow down unto it." "For I am the Lord your God." "The fool's a spiritualist." " A spiritualist?" "Idolatry." "I see a brown priest behind you." "Respectfully." "Lord of Creation who fed your people in the desert bless us poor sinners." "We pray, Merciful father, that we can look to heaven awaiting the Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ to deliver us." "Amen." "Enjoy your dinner." "Enjoy your dinner." "The cat!" "She's shitting them out." "Sit up straight!" "There are six of them!" "You too, Louis." "She's got less than you." "Sit up straight!" "Not even my wife talk to me like that." "Why did you get divorced, uncle Louis?" "What's that?" "Divorced?" "She keeps on going!" "I wouldn't mind a glass of wine now." "It'll be over soon, love." "Stop it." "Come now." "Love!" "So they found coffins with people in it with arches backs and twisted faces." "They'd tried to get out." "How dreadful." "Drown them!" " You're not serious." "I've taken them to the shed, mother." "What do they want in the shed?" " Nothing can happen to them." "Since that cat went for my throat..." "Welcome!" " Watch it, Louis." "Enjoy your dinner!" "And Cain knew his wife and she conceived and bore Enoch." "And Ada bore Jabel." "He was the father of such as dwell in tents and have cattle." "And Adam knew his wife again." "And she bore him a son called Seth." "For God hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel whom Cain slew." "And to Seth there was born a son." "He called his name Enos." "Then began men to call upon the name of the Lord." "The grief we bear has lesser weight than fear of dangers that await." "But God always pays heed." "And when affliction comes to call He'll gives us strength to meet the need." "I'm the boss!" "The husband is the head and the wife the neck." "When the neck turns, the head turns with it." "Be harmless as doves and wise as serpents." "Paulus?" "Not one of the seven dwarfs." "Your father's been active!" " When's your soccer team complete?" "!" "Those misguided Catholics are up early!" "I know a Catholic girl as hot as mustard." "What profit if man gains the world and loses his soul." "Oh, Lord!" "Eternal Light!" "Nought is hidden from You." "You watch us wherever we go." "Beyond sunshine or the light of moon." "Lead us not into temptation..." "Calvinist jerker!" "Never admit the evil enemy to mislead us." "Protect Christianity at large." "Give back your Cross, your Joy!" "Amen!" "You'd have burnt all the Popes." "We will now ask for your donation." "For the customary purposes and for the evangelisation of Southern Holland." "Look, that's a real old-fashioned grand manor." "We can move in and start an export office." "You'll have your sewing room there." "And you'll be sitting by the big window." "And you can pick any room." "Though you only lived for that One House not made with hands but the eternal heavenly home and though earth was just a stopover according to you it had gradually became to use your own words..." "I don't know how to put you all up anymore." "Perhaps we should emigrate." " What's "emigrate"?" "Going to another country." " To South Africa." "Long live the Boers" "Fighting to the bitter end" "Long live the Transvaal Union" "Long Live the Transvaal Boer!" "Are you emigrating to South Africa, Wolkers?" "Yes, Miss Hakkenberg." "Once we sail, the fish will fly across the deck." "I don't believe a word of it." "1x0=0." "2x0=0." "3x0=0..." "We're not going." "He'd never get the money together." "Is it true what uncle Louis said?" "That some people are buried alive?" "Only God knows." "You think God exist?" "Peter..." "Peter..." "Dreaming again!" "He sees the flying fish fly!" "They're not going!" "He won't be scouting the bush-bush for some time." "Jan is a lair!" "Jan is a liar..." "I want to die!" "Jan, come back!" "Peter..." "If you try this again, I'll let you drown!" "I saw all the colours of the rainbow." "The lord has given, has taken." "The Lord be praised." "What did you say?" " Amen!" "We raised you in the fear of the Lord!" "If God doesn't want to, not a sparrow will fall from the sky." "Oh, Peter." "If I see a crab, you grab him!" "Get him!" "He's gone!" "They know when danger threatens." "You wanted him for yourself." "But you won't succeed." "Your life's at stake too." "It's high noon." "If we don't make a sacrifice, dreadful things will happen." "The sun'll turn blood red and all living things will die." "War!" "I'm going to fight for peace." "I'd wanted to go and see Grandma." "Where are you going?" "Look for the sunny side of life..." "Peter!" "Peter!" "Go to sleep!" "They're slaughtering us." "Where's Lea?" " She's dating a Kraut." "What's a Kraut, Mom?" "Her Majesty, Queen Wilhelmina." "My People!" "After our country has observed strict neutrality and intended to keep to this the German Army has crossed our borders without warning during the past few nights." "This in contravention with the solemn assurance that our neutrality would be respected as long as we maintained it ourselves." "I protest with all my heart against this unprecedented violation of good faith and defamation of the proper trust between civilised nations." "I and my government will do our duty." "Do yours too, everywhere." "Each in his place." "With the peace that a clear conscience gives us." "The Netherlands fell trough treason." "And that's it." "And because they let us fight with rubbish from the last century." "They call it making room, or plumping." "That's derived from plumping your bed." "Since the grave's considered your last resting place." "But don't imagine they leave you in peace after you die." "Sure, if you pay more they let you lie a bit longer." "But most of them are dug up after 10 years." "I've seen them, those bones." "Barges filled to the brim." "Is it true what uncle Louis says?" " What?" "That if they bury you in coma they can hear you knocking right through the earth when you come to?" "Not if the gravedigger is deaf." "Have you all gone crazy!" "I'm not crazy!" "Almighty Lord." "We pray for the Jews too." "Will you protect them against the beast from the bottomless pit." "Like you once led Moses from the house of bondage in Egypt." "Amen." " Amen." "The potato peels look tasty again today." "The Jews think they're being called up for forced labour." "Do you believe that?" " No." "What's going to happen to them?" "What do you think?" "She should be put in a straight-jacket." "Nobody can call here anymore." "With that idiot noshing and burping like a pig." "They've come for Chris." "Good riddance." "I have to phone my husband." "You have no husband!" "We used to have a store." "We've still got chocolate, cookies." "Then bring some along!" "Do you believe in Christ?" "That rotten fish?" "Do you think God exists?" "If God exists?" "If God exists!" " Go to sleep." "I lost my faith in God in that lab." "When I learned about the concentration camps and gas chambers I thought it's my fault, I started it." "What do you earn?" " 2,5 guilders a week, Sir." "That's not much." "Would you like to earn some more?" "You're dismissed." "And you'll go a long way." "They're all crazy." " Who?" "Everybody." "And you?" "I'm not." "And me?" "You're my brother." "Then all's well." "The new help?" " Yes, Sir." "2,5 guilders a week." "It's a privilege to work in the open air." "What else could you want?" "I want to become an artist." "Bye, Mr. Houtheer." "One leg is shorter than the other." "I want to marry a real artist." "Look, my leg's real long." "You can't tell." " And from the back?" "No, it's okay." "You can get dressed again." "I took nothing off." "I'm real tall in the hips." "I drew a Kraut." "You can't draw." "I don't want them to get hold of my uniform." "Don't forget your cap." "I want to work for you." "You?" "Is our courier ready?" "Serpentina." "Hello, Jan." "Drawing is not your strong point either." "You always won." "I've won!" "Would your eggs break?" "With this?" "Don't..." "I still wake up at night bathed in sweat." "I scream, almost choke." "I see your face curl up before me." "Black." "I'm going to France." " Why?" "It's too cold here." "Are you joining the Resistance?" "I'll bring you a girl." "Look after Serpentina, will you?" "Uncle Louis..." "There's that old fool." "What are we to do with him?" "Tell Serpentina that she belongs inside after the curfew." "Not in the shed." "You freeze above and burn below." " Praise the Lord." "What did you say?" "It's like heaven and hell." " What do you mean?" "That you feel cold." "All that counts is the day I appear before His Throne." "You should think about it too." "I wish Peter came back." " That's in the hand of God." "We will pray for him." "Will Peter ever return?" "Never." "Peter will never return." "Did you know that human flesh tastes of roasted chestnuts?" "Uncle Louis told you..." "When God has decided it's time prayer doesn't help." "It's for Louis if he makes a fuss." "Lord of Creation, bless us poor sinners." "Lord, lend my brother the strength to appear before Your Throne." "I don't want to be buried." "I don't want to be buried." "Burn me." " Let's get the doctor." "How would you know?" "There's no cure for what your uncle's got." "There's cash in my pocket!" "It seemed as if he blinked his eyes." "Isn't it a shame." "Look at that material." "It's the last thing he'll ever wear, so it should look decent." "Too bad he's in a filthy state." "The collar'll be greasy before he's buried." "He's not filthy." "He's been washed from head to toe." "Washed?" "Why in heaven's name?" "Take that mirror from the wall..." "Move it to the right a bit..." "Can you manage, Sir?" " You're not a relative, are you!" "I'm his only son." "Your razor slipped on my father's face." "It's not all that easy!" "Especially when someone's watching!" "A living person can give will blow up his cheeks tighten the skin." "This won't give." "It won't even stretch by pulling." "Why did you lather his mouth?" "Couldn't you have pulled a cloth over it?" "Ah Sir, I'll just flush it inside after." "We have gathered together here since a normal burial can't take place in this era." "Me and this gentleman will carry my brother to his grave." "Nobody else is to come along." "Unless close relatives turn up after all." "But the relatives we wrote did not respond." "And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God." "And the books were opened, which is the book of life." "And the dead were judged according to their works." "And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire." "This is the second death." "And whoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire." "Hello, my boy..." "H°W Y°l1'Ve grown!" "You're a man..." "Theresa..." " Poor Louis." "He won't see us liberated." "Theresa, would you like a last look?" "He exudes peace." "He hasn't changed since his death." "It's constantly been cold since." "Did you wash it?" "He wore it only briefly." "Didn't even had it on." "He was ill." "Uncle Louis died of a contagious disease." "I don't want to be buried!" "Serpentina was as hot as mustard but it wasn't the reason." "Peter..." "Is it a V1?" "Or is it uncle Louis?" "I don't want to be buried!" "You can see the steam coming from his nostrils." "Do you want it?" "Keep it for later." "It's so empty here." "So you can get used to heaven." "Is that empty too?" "You bet." "I can't reach you..." "I can't touch you..." "I'd have myself inoculated if I were you..." "I never felt your absence to be more absolute than then." "When I realised that all we'd seen and done together no longer existed." "Peter?" "Where are you, Peter?" "Your son said he went to Christ." "He also said:" "As pants the hart for cooling streams so longs my soul, oh God, for Thee." "Amen." "The Lord has given..." "The Lord has taken..." "The Lord be praised." "Amen."