"Now I'm a cab driver at night" "I like nights better so I can spend the day with Julie during the day, he tells me of his night" "I've the impression he invents a little and I invent a little with him" "Are you sleeping?" "No, are you?" "No" "You and I never sleep" "Never when we are together" "We like movement better" "Yes, it's true" "When I sleep, I don't live" "Neither do I" "Right now, I like living" "So do I" "When I'm asleep." "I'm not completely sure you're here" "Neither am I" "I slept so much when I was little" "But then it was the opposite waking up meant getting bored" "Me too." "It's since I met you that things have changed" "Me too." "I knew something was going to happen." "For what?" "I didn't quite know, but for something" "Meanwhile, I kept sleeping" "If nothing had happened to you that can happen too" "Would you have slept on and on?" "Yes, probably" "I would have been a sleepwalker going here and there like everybody but a sleepwalker still Jack and Julie were very young" "They came from the provinces" "They had a one-bedroom on the fifth floor of a Parisian building not far from the Sebastopol Boulevard" "They had a view a very long and large avenue with the incessant flow of cars the owner had put up new wall paper" "They hadn't changed it" "It did not concern them" "It's hot" "It's summer" "A particularly hot summer" "They loved each other, it was enough for them" "Everyday, their bodies search for more" "Especially after what was going to happen to her." "But I'm anticipating." "Jack would say:" "I won't drive a cab all my life" "And they would both laugh" "She would say:" "Next year" "I'll work and you'll be resting." "Holding each other, slowly almost asleep, they made love" "It was the almost that was important" "Do you have sunflower oil?" "They lived casually had no friends and didn't know anybody in Paris" "Maybe we should meet people" "Next year" "And the telephone?" "Next year" "You must sleep Jack, you'll have an accident" "Next year" "Jack would say:" "I'll take a minutes sleep every now and then" "Half asleep" "Paris is even more beautiful." "No, you will kill yourself tonight, Jack" "She dislike staying in alone" "It was too hot" "The nights were cooler outside" "Be careful, anything can happen" "I'm not afraid" "Nothing can happen to me" "And it was so" "Nothing happened to her" "During the day he tells me about his night" "And at night, I wander around Paris" "We have no child" "It's really not the right time" "At night, he drives around in his cab" "And at night, I wander around Paris" "I always get home before him" "I wait for daylight and erase the night" "It's summer in Paris" "The time for abandonment when the days are the longest" "During the day he tells me about his night" "And at night, I wander around Paris" "We don't have a phone anyway, we don't know anyone" "We have no child" "It's really not the right time" "At night, he drives around in his cab" "When we sleep, we don't feel we live" "I always get home before him" "I wait for daylight and erase the night" "It's summer in Paris" "The time for abandonment when the days are the longest" "I'm not an apparition" "I'm a woman, which is quite the opposite" "One day, Jack told her:" "I've got an extra half-hour." "How come?" "The driver offered to drop the car by the door" "They made use of that half-hour" "Then, went down together" "Hi Joseph" "Hi Jack" "Joseph, as in the Bible?" "Thank you" "Have you been in Paris long?" "No, not very long" "What are you reading?" "The map of Paris" "I like exploring better" "I know the main avenues the Champs Elysees and the Opera House" "Now I'm discovering small streets" "And the one-way streets?" "Do you pay attention to them?" "No" "How what might not have happened did happen?" "I don't know yet" "Maybe Julie was tired of walking alone in the big city" "And she loved Jack so much she distrusted neither" "Joseph nor herself nor the endless walks in the summer nights of Paris" "Do you like American shirts?" "They're Chinese" "It's for Jack" "Jack?" "I thought it was Jacques" "Jack" "Joseph is a strange name" "I dislike it but I'm used to it" "It's unpretentious" "Think so?" "I wouldn't like Amaury, it's pretentious" "I don't know it" "I heard it goes back to the Middle Ages" "Joseph is fine" "Where are you from?" "From over there" "It looks far" "Yes" "Do you like Paris?" "Yes, do you?" "Yes" "What do you like in Paris?" "I like Belleville at around nine on a summer night eating out on wide terraces" "I like appetizers brought to the table the waiter offering you a drink" "I like to dip bread in arrissa and burn my throat" "I like movie houses even if I never go" "I like it when it's crowded" "I like it when it's empty" "I like going into stores in the summer for it's cooler" "I don't like cafes closing at 2 a. m." "But I like when they reopen" "I like ordering coffee at the bar or a slice of bread and butter at a table" "I like reading for hours sitting outside" "I like lit up billboards" "I like pharmacies with all sorts of toothbrushes wine shops when you are given advice grocery snops with pistachio or spring rolls" "I like Chinese beer and gluey rice restaurants, but far from train stations for I hate departures" "I like the St Denis metro station even if it's sad street names not campaign posters" "I like the Republique area" "You can always find cigarettes delivery boys riding scooters with helmets like Lindberg's" "I could have been a pilot" "I like watching girls but I don't go near them, boys too but I don't know them" "Actually, I know nobody in Paris" "Neither do we" "Neither do I. Until now" "I thought it was better for I could think more about work" "I've got ambition I guess" "Cabs, plenty of cabs cruising around Paris and its suburbs" "I calculated:" "If I work 12 hrs a day for 3 years." "I'd get my permit" "Later, my own cab, still later, many" "Then it would have no end" "Why until now?" "For I've seen poverty until not" "And now?" "Now, I see you" "Then along the banks of the Seine in a part of town where she had already been" "I do believe that they kissed" "Where are we going now?" "To your room" "I don't like my room" "Nobody ever came there" "Not even my father" "Why keep it then?" "I dislike it when I think of it but I hardly ever do" "What do you think of?" "I think of when I'll move out of when I won't drive a cab and won't be as lonely" "Those are terrible thoughts" "What about you?" "I don't know yet what I think" "I'm happy like this" "At night, I think of Jack and during the day he's with me" "At night, when you think of him." "What do you think of?" "I try guessing where he is, the rest I've no right to tell you" "I think of him, then I feel him" "That's already a lot" "A lot for now" "Will you think of me during the day?" "Certainly not." "You know, most of my time I think of nothing" "That must be very difficult" "You know, I no longer want us to talk about what we think" "Everyone for himself" "That smile betrayed her" "Do you go around with a como?" "Yes" "Why did you come to Paris?" "To be happy, Julie" "And you see, it happened" "I don't think it's going to rain" "Where are you going?" "Home" "Jack's home too" "Yes" "Why?" "I love him" "And me?" "You too." "See you tomorrow" "At the cafe near Chatelet" "She greeted him as usual" "With desire, joy and emotion what do you think of when I'm away?" "It's strange" "I feel I lived this before" "Well, I think about you, and you?" "So do I. I think about you and I hurry but it's no use the night doesn't go by faster" "No, it's even getting longer these days" "Yes, and time seems so much longer without you" "But if I start doing that" "I'll be really sick the night after" "I'll be used to being with you night and day" "I'd better go" "Besides, we must pay the rent tomorrow" "Do we have to?" "I'm afraid so" "Luckily we don't have a phone there'd be that much more to pay" "I make money at night" "People pay less attention at night" "Because it's dark?" "At night, either they're in love or no longer in love or about to fall in love" "Anyway, they're sentimental, so they give" "I'm ashamed to use their emotions" "But gangsters or people leaving business dinners they can't be sentimental" "Less so, it's true, it depends" "But they're drunk or pleased with themselves, so they give too" "And during the day?" "During the day, I don't know" "Your eyes are open" "How do you know?" "There are things one feels" "And what else do you feel?" "No, not this what else do you feel about me?" "Your lips are trembling a little" "I feel this" "We're in love" "Yes, in love" "They had a beautiful day wrapped up in each other" "At dusk, they didn't want to separate" "Why does one have to work?" "I don't know but that's the way it is" "It's reasonable" "I dislike that word" "So do I." "You look so pale" "You too" "No, not like this" "We're not children anymore" "It's the first time it happened to me" "That what happened to you?" "To be in love" "Tomorrow, we can't meet" "Why?" "Because it's Sunday" "Sunday was the finest day of the week for them" "Jack didn't work from Sunday to Monday they had time to themselves" "They were left with a day, then a night, and another day" "But something happened on this Sunday" "Expecting anyone?" "No, are you?" "No" "It's us" "We had no news" "Come in" "Sit down" "Jack, your parents are here" "Aren't you afraid of splinters?" "No, not anymore" "Jack, you look so pale" "Anything to drink?" "No, it's all right" "Yes, I'll get you something" "Thank you" "So you're doing fine?" "Yes, dad, I drive a cab at night" "At night?" "Till I find something else" "Yes, that's good, that's good" "And what do you do?" "Not much right now" "We have time" "Of course" "Women are up on things faster than men are" "So it's better when there's an age difference" "Well, yes" "You're not expecting..." "No, we have time, dad" "You do go to the doctor sometimes?" "And you too, it's all so dangerous" "And you teeth are all right?" "Yes, yes" "Teeth are important after all" "As much as the rest" "Let's go" "Let's go" "We didn't want to disturb you just get some news" "Sure dad" "See you soon" "Goodbye Julie" "Do you want a child, Jack?" "Next year when things will have changed" "With a child we'll need a phone if he gets sick friends who have children so he can see people his age" "And I won't be able to go around at night" "We'll have to do without pizzas and breakfasts" "We'll have to eat meat for him to be strong" "We're strong without meat" "Yes, but we don't have a child" "Right." "And no friends" "And no furniture, no telephone" "It's true" "And we'll be afraid all the time" "Afraid?" "Yes that's what my mother told me" "When she had me she was afraid for me afraid to do the wrong thing" "Afraid I'd die" "Everything counted each gesture she made" "At night, she'd get up to see if I was still breathing" "Can it just stop?" "I've heard it can" "And men, are they afraid also?" "I don't know" "My father never said anything" "It's enough that women should worry" "Then what?" "Then nothing" "So a child is a funny business" "Yes, let's wait a bit more" "Yes, we're in no hurry" "No" "Yet, it's said a child is the fruit of love" "What counts is what's not said" "They still worry if they came?" "Who?" "My parents" "Fear is a thing that lasts" "New shoes?" "Do you like them?" "Yes, you look different" "You have a new shirt, I like it" "I look different" "What should we do?" "What you want" "And if what I want is not what you want how will we manage?" "We won't manage" "They often changed hotels because of the breakfast problem" "The receptionist always wanted to know when they would have it" "Joseph thought it was a very tactless thing to ask" "Tea or coffee?" "Coffee and tea" "I like how you smell" "I like your color" "They knew they would leave the room before dawn" "And this room, do you like it?" "Yes, and you?" "Yes" "If somebody came in?" "We'd blush" "They just came to love each other" "For a few snatched hours" "Time to undress swiftly to creep into bed and make love to silence" "So deep a silence it was she couldn't stand it" "Julie would say then:" "Speak, say something" "Yes, was all he'd say" "I'm happy" "It's not a thing one says" "And why not?" "It's a thing one feels" "You want us to say things we don't feel?" "That's not it" "When one feels something it shows then why say it?" "As long as a thing is not said you can't be completely sure of it" "And besides, I like repeating things" "Especially that I'm happy" "If you were unhappy you'd say everyday" "I'm unhappy" "I was so used to being unhappy" "I didn't even realize it" "So I said nothing" "And to whom say these things anyway?" "To nobody" "Whereas being happy is unusual" "Especially that happy" "It's true" "You know, I was told:" "Beware if ever you fall in love, that's when trouble starts." "I asked what kind of trouble they told me:" "Trouble of all kinds." "Who told you that?" "My soccer friends" "You play soccer?" "I did before" "Before what?" "Before you" "And do you believe it?" "What?" "That trouble will begin" "One mustn't believe everything" "Say something" "Yes" "They couldn't fall asleep nor be caught unaware by daybreak" "They got dressed in silence" "I still want you" "Keep that for tomorrow" "You think it can be kept?" "Oh, yes it can" "But it distracts me in my cab all day long" "I've funny thoughts" "Besides, I feel they can be seen" "Hide them better then" "The address they gave got them close to either his place or hers" "Never in front of the door to remain discreet" "Once they'd arrive nobody would get out" "They'd give another address getting one of them closer on and on till they felt daylight was too close" "They she would get out and go home" "I'm happy" "I didn't know one could be that happy" "I'm less happy at night but still am when I think of the next day" "If there were only days" "I might not realize it" "It would all be the same" "Might just be a matter of contrast" "It's begun again" "What has?" "This talk of being happy" "Why do you say that?" "We always say the same thing" "I don't think so" "How can you be sure you're happy" "But I feel that that's what it is to be happy" "In books they get happily married and have many children" "And then?" "That's at the end of the story" "It's something you go towards if it's at the end" "And we don't" "Since we stay here" "But we can still go somewhere" "But where?" "We'll know at the end of the story" "But we have none" "Doesn't one say a happy love has no story?" "Yes, one does" "Then we have none?" "Yes, we do, but a story with no fuss" "Joseph also - he's happy" "How do you know?" "I don't know, it's just an impression" "Well, just today he was in a hurry" "Often, he stays on at the cab depot, so we talk a bit" "We're not friends, but we talk" "You haven't seen my cat?" "No" "You don't ask about what?" "About what?" "What we talk about Joseph and I" "Yes, I'm asking you" "It's hard to say" "Just words" "Words?" "French words like 'Doing okay'" "Days it's tough, nights are better" "It depends on what day or what night" "Last night we didn't say anything" "Maybe he had nothing to say" "And then?" "Well, that's all" "He's a good guy I think" "Good?" "Yes, good, he feels good about himself" "It's true" "I like your shoes" "Have you seen Puss, my cat?" "Why?" "Your legs stand out and I like that" "But you don't see them" "I can guess them" "It's full" "Not here, it's full" "She had fallen asleep after making love" "It was air conditioned" "It was cool" "She was no longer used to that coolness" "It was the first time he saw her sleep" "What is it?" "It was like a bad dream" "It's getting light" "You shouldn't have let me sleep" "I shouldn't have fallen asleep" "Sorry I'm off duty" "If you only knew something almost happened to us" "But what?" "Something like a lie" "Don't fall asleep Jack" "You know what happens if you fall asleep in a snowstorm" "No" "You never wake up" "It's summer" "There's no snowstorm in summer" "One never knows Jack" "Since the day Julie had fallen asleep she was beside herself" "Why do you go so slow?" "And what's the hurry?" "I'm hurried by life there's no hurry" "Careful with those heels" "Could you run away from bad company?" "I won't need to" "And with my sneakers" "I was too close to the ground" "I couldn't wait longer" "Me neither" "In a hurry to see me?" "Yes" "And to leave Jack?" "No" "No preference?" "No" "It'll never change?" "I don't think so" "But I only love you" "But I'm not you" "Besides, it's not my fault" "If it were you I loved the most" "I couldn't love you" "At around four a. m." "She started worrying for Joseph couldn't keep from keeping hold of her" "Stay a little bit more" "Just this time" "We're both hurt" "It's not what I wanted" "No, I'm not hurt it's only in the morning when we separate" "What?" "It's so abrupt" "You're here and suddenly you're not" "But we can't separate piece by piece" "No, but it's abrupt, it's abrupt" "You mean brutal" "Yes, I mean all that" "Abrupt and brutal" "It's like from one second to the next there is then there isn't" "But it's not forever" "Later, there is again" "We're never sure" "One is never sure of anything" "You must go down now" "Why?" "Because of my heel" "What about it?" "I can't walk" "You're afraid?" "No, I'm not." "You don't want him to see us?" "I don't want you, you to see me go home" "I won't look at you" "You will" "How do you know?" "What?" "That I will" "That's what I don't know" "Then?" "It's too late now Joseph" "Why?" "For I'll tell myself he's not watching because we said so" "And can't we act as if we hadn't said so?" "No, and also I might feel like turning around" "And then we couldn't separate" "And even if I didn't turn around while dying to do so" "I'd know that had I done it, we couldn't separate" "Oh Joseph, you must go now" "Shouldn't wear those high heels" "I thought you liked them, you told me so" "No, I didn't" "Maybe not" "Julie was hothered" "He didn't quite know why" "But maybe intuitively he did" "It's not important" "You know it is" "For if it isn't, we'll end up saying that about many things then, about everything" "And if nothing is important" "Then why do this rather than that" "Don't say it's not important anymore" "No, I won't" "See you tomorrow" "Stay one more minute" "Yes" "Don't fall asleep Julie you know what happens if one does" "I'm not falling asleep" "I'm listening to your heart beat" "I'm going down now otherwise it'll stop beating" "What is it Jack?" "I wanted to say something, but I just forgot" "What could it be?" "Oh, it gets on my nerves" "It's not important" "Probably not" "Try to remember" "I have it on the tip of my tongue" "But not anymore, it's gone" "Think harder" "I'm trying, Julie, but nothing comes" "It's not important after all" "You might remember" "Yes, I might" "Why are you shivering, Jack?" "I don't know" "I have a funny feeling" "A feeling like what?" "Like a weight on my heart" "But I'll take a deep breath and it'll go away" "Is anything burning here?" "My place is full of smoke" "No, nothing" "Excuse me" "Now, I remember what I wanted to say" "What is it?" "Paris is a big city" "While driving at night" "I see lots of girls." "And not you" "It's true" "Yet, I move around so much" "I could run into you" "That's true" "There's very little chance" "I calculated last night that there is one in a million" "But even here you can get round laws" "One night, he drove past her" "She seemed elsewhere" "In a world to which he had no access" "What is it, Jack?" "Aren't we okay like this?" "We are but at times" "I've the feeling it won't last" "You shouldn't" "It's hard to fight against feelings" "Don't let them take over" "No, there's something too good" "I worry." "It can't last" "If you worry, maybe it's not that good" "Oh, no, that's impossible" "Could be the heat or you're tired" "Yes, probably" "when he kissed her it wasn't as simple as before" "He felt uneasy" "And when he took her he was rough" "You're hurting me" "You see" "Julie went with Jack in his cab because he asked her to" "She wasn't feeling right" "Even with all the windows opened she felt oppressed" "The passengers were like silent shadows in the back of the car" "Don't look at me like that" "Why not?" "I don't know" "It's too see if you're changing" "And what do you see?" "I don't quite know" "One can change" "It's true why do you say that?" "Maybe I'm changing" "People look at me strangely" "Who?" "Well" "Joseph for example" "I don't know, what I've done to him but he doesn't like me" "Or he's just preoccupied" "I thought he felt good shout himself that he could be a friend" "I feel he doesn't want friends" "Or it's just me he doesn't want" "It's nothing much" "I'm not hurt" "What is it Julie?" "I don't know" "Should I make you laugh?" "Yes, make me laugh" "No, you haven't changed" "Didn't think I'd see you" "I'm here" "You're not asking me anything?" "Yes, I am" "Then ask me" "I'm asking you" "I stayed with Jack" "And you left me alone" "He needed me" "And you?" "Me too" "And me?" "I needed you too" "You need everybody at the same time" "And I only need you" "I wanted to come" "But you didn't" "And tonight he doesn't need you?" "No" "And you don't need him?" "No" "And tomorrow?" "Tomorrow, I don't know" "Tomorrow is tomorrow" "Tomorrow morning" "I'll need you" "No, don't say that" "But it's true" "How can you know, it's not morning yet there's a whole night ahead of us" "I need you every morning" "Nights are so short" "But they're beautiful" "Tomorrow morning, is another morning" "But every morning is the same for me" "If every morning were the same why would there be other mornings?" "Don't say that, it's not fair" "No, it's not fair, but what's fair?" "The day after tomorrow is Sunday" "It's still far off" "And then it'll be Monday" "Jack said he saw me at night the other day" "And me?" "No, not you" "But it's as if he had felt you" "And me, I saw you both tonight it's as if I felt you both all the time" "I saw you last night" "No, you didn't you were with him" "I was with him, but I saw you" "How did I look?" "You were alone" "I saw you but not alone" "You were together" "I know you're together, he doesn't." "It's unfair" "It is unfair" "I should maybe tell him" "So he'll be unhappy also" "No, but you lie to him" "No, never" "What are you doing?" "I'm taking my pill" "You never forget?" "No, but I never think about it either" "You take it without thinking" "Yes" "It's funny" "It's the first time I've noticed it" "It's funny and it's not funny" "Might be that before it didn't affect you" "It's true" "It's the first time" "How did you guess?" "I took it while thinking about it this time" "I wondered if I didn't forget the other days" "Did you?" "No, I didn't" "How do you know?" "I looked at the box:" "The days matched" "So I hadn't forgotten" "Why just today were you aware of taking it?" "Oh, Jack!" "Just today, you thought:" "I won't forget" "Maybe so" "And just today it does something to me" "You want to know what?" "Yes, Jack" "Well, I wish you'd forgotten" "I wish you hadn't been careful" "Not that I wished you'd be pregnant but I wish you'd done nothing to prevent it" "And just today I was aware of taking it" "In the past I wasn't" "So I could have forgotten then" "I wonder why you were aware of it just today" "There are days like that" "Luckily there are other days too" "Jack, you shouldn't work anymore" "I'm afraid" "Should..." "Shouldn't" "And they argued for the first time" "Since the night she had spent in Jack's cab" "Joseph kept making plans as though to force something upon her" "He wanted to go away with her for a week." "Will it ever be the moment?" "I don't know" "Can't you find an excuse?" "No, it wouldn't be you" "Nor you, as I see you" "Just tell me what you two do on Sunday" "I don't know yet" "It's not important" "You know it is" "Yes, I do" "If I knew, I wouldn't spend my time imagining" "There's nothing to imagine" "I imagine anyway" "I imagine you and him on Sunday" "Me, on Sunday, I go home and wait till Monday" "And you?" "Me, I know that Monday is coming up soon" "Just tell me if you go dancing just that or if you go to a restaurant or..." "But no, we stay home" "That's what I dreaded" "That's what I imagined" "I'd hoped you went out" "Stop that Joseph" "I will if you don't leave me this morning" "So you want Jack to be hurt and me too" "And me too." "Oh!" "I shouldn't have said that." "Who says he'll be hurt?" "But everybody's hurt" "I should leave you" "No" "No, it wouldn't help" "You're here now." "It's too late" "And Jack is already hurt" "He doesn't know why" "But I know, that's already a lot" "And me too" "I shouldn't have met you but one can't go back in the past" "Oh, if one could" "That's what you'd like" "No" "I can't see myself without you yet you're in my way" "I can't see myself without you but you're not enough in my way" "Anyway, it doesn't work out" "You have such a way of looking at things" "Come close to me" "I'm cold" "It's hot and I'm not a blanket" "I'm cold but I like also to feel you against me and maybe make love" "Maybe, you don't even know" "It's a risk then" "A risk to take" "I'm afraid" "What if it doesn't work?" "It would be terrible" "But maybe not" "Julie" "Joseph" "You said I should leave you" "Yes." "Why me?" "Because you came afterwards" "Is that all?" "That's all" "You have something to say?" "Jack, I haven't slept but I did dream" "It's impossible" "But I assure you it's true" "One dreams at night" "I dreamed during the day and I was awake" "But Julie, this is crazy!" "There was a man walking to a window" "He opened it and said..." "You're doing fine today?" "You already told me about it the day we met." "You said he'd meant:" "You don't feel right." "You were pessimistic then" "He said it to others but it was he who didn't feel right" "This man in your dream must have been somebody else" "Your sister for instance" "You know I have none" "Your sister if you had one or the dream you had of having one for when we have a sister there are two of us" "That was before I met you" "You too dreamed of a sister" "That was before I met you and I'm not a sister to you" "In this dream, he didn't say:" "You're doing fine." "What did he say then?" "But you can't dream awake for it's not dreaming but daydreaming" "And I interpret dreams better than daydreams and I'm best at nightmares" "Why nightmares, Jack?" "Well, the man said:" "I love you." "And I can interpret it myself this one dream" "This man was not my sister nor your dream about a sister" "It was me who told you" "I love you the window banging was my heart opening up to tell you this" "If you say so" "What is it?" "Why do you look like that?" "Like what?" "Gloomy" "Well, if you interpret your dreams what do you need me for?" "And if you must use a dream you haven't had simply to tell me that you love me then you are a complicated girl" "Then?" "I like when it's simpler and things seem complicated now" "Even to say that we love each other when we do" "You know, Julie about this sister I never had" "I wish we'd talk as if I'd had one" "As you wish, Jack but how could we do so?" "Well, for example, we could say:" "Don't make pig-head faces." "It's the kind of faces your sister couldn't stand" "But what would this pig-head look like?" "Well, like a guy's head who if he were told I love you would first have to listen to a crazy dream and who, if he also made a declaration wouldn't be so smart as to imagine" "a dream like this one he hasn't even had or dreamed of having for all that he dreamed of having was you and that I have you and I love you" "Yes," "I love you and I managed better than you did it came out by itself no dream of a guy at a window" "If you do, then you say babe and babe" "I don't like" "Yes, I see, but you give too much importance to details" "No, I don't." "I wouldn't waste time disliking it if it were a detail" "I'd be indifferent to your misfortune as they say" "I have no misfortune" "You talk like in a book" "It's because I'm used to books" "You know, having habits isn't good" "Who told you that?" "A book in fact, just a little bit sad the way I like them" "Why do you like sad books?" "I didn't say sad" "I said just a little bit sad" "Jack, why do you talk so much today?" "Today, I'm very witty" "Make the best of it" "I might not be so tomorrow if I feel annoyed" "Why would you be annoyed?" "And when it happens it just does and it clings to you to the end" "There's the type who's neither witty nor annoyed and you shouldn't think they have much in their brains that if they did say what they have to say you'd bowled over" "The romantic hero type mysterious, that's not it!" "If they are quiet, it's just there's nothing in their brains nothing worth saying at least or else they are real fakes" "You know what I think of fakes" "You never talked about it nor about romantic heroes" "It's the first time" "I don't see why you think about all that" "I do because when I have nothing to say" "when I run out of imagination" "I say to myself" "I hope she knows there are great things beneath the silence" "I don't want you to think this guy has nothing to say today" "I'd be better somewhere else" "So I want you to think that" "I'm a great guy" "I wonder what your sister would think of it" "It's you who's saying sad things now" "I'm not" "It's you who feels they are sad" "It's the same thing" "Julie, you know what?" "We'll pretend I've no sister" "I don't want family between us" "All right" "And it's Sunday" "Sundays, things go wrong especially in families" "But Jack, today is not Sunday" "It's Saturday" "But we can pretend it's Sunday" "All right, if you agree" "All right." "But what's wrong with Sundays?" "I don't know, it's in the air" "Tomorrow is Sunday and I'm going away!" "Oh, Jack, it's begun again" "No, I'll stop" "Where are you going?" "I'm coming towards you" "But I'm here" "But I hadn't seen you" "I haven't changed though" "No, you're right" "You're weird today" "But you're here that's what matters" "You didn't think I was not going to come" "It happened already?" "Yes" "And since that day" "I'm never sure anymore" "If I hadn't come would you have been surprised" "Not really, only unhappy" "And if tomorrow no, it's Sunday... if I hadn't come on Monday would you have been surprised" "Yes, for you have not come two days in a row" "But if you hadn't come the next day, then?" "Then?" "I don't know" "Maybe I would have thought you'd never come back" "You won't come on Monday, is that so?" "But, no, Joseph" "Yes or no" "Yes, I will" "Then what do you ask these questions for?" "I don't know, just like that, for nothing" "You're here" "It never happened that you didn't come two days in a row" "Come on, let's go" "Jack felt a shadow was hovering over them" "He thought it was because of the apartment" "He wanted to redo it enlarge the bedroom and paint it" "We don't need a living room" "What if we meet people?" "We won't anyway" "And if your parents come back?" "Hi" "I'm your downstairs neighbor" "Hello" "Is there a leak?" "My place is flooded" "A leak?" "We have a leak in here" "A leak?" "There's no water" "We didn't notice anything" "We hear everything in here" "We didn't notice anything" "Could be in the toilet" "No, nothing there either" "Don't you see?" "What?" "That we hear everything" "I didn't hear anything" "There's nothing" "Know a plumber?" "No, we know nobody" "Sorry, don't like bothering people" "Neither do we" "At least we met" "Shouldn't walk bare foot" "There are splinters" "What do we do when happiness is gone?" "We try to get it back" "And if we do, will it be the same happiness?" "I don't know" "I must think about it" "So, have you?" "I have, but I still don't know" "There aren't answer to everything" "I don't know, I wonder" "We can always wonder" "You said, we try to get it back" "Yes" "It's lousy" "Julie?" "Yes, it's lousy" "It's lousy and it's lousy and I don't give a damn" "it' not that bad" "No" "Now, we're making it bigger" "And when it's done?" "Well, it'll be bigger" "And then?" "We'll see things more clearly" "Jack, you must rest" "The neighbors complained about the noise and the dirt in the staircase" "They entered their apartment" "The police were called" "But there were those who were on their side and who dropped by at all hours of the day, to say hello or to cheer them up because they were intrigued by what was going on" "Julie says if it goes on like this it will be next year right now" "We'll have to have a child right now" "And a telephone now if it goes on like this" "It's steep" "The plumber found nothing, could you try?" "No, I'm sorry" "They were invaded" "They resisted a little but it didn't help" "It probably suited them" "Maybe we should move out?" "Maybe." "That night they loved each other even more so" "Julie said" "Don't stop, Joseph, don't stop" "And Joseph didn't stop" "You feel weird" "Yes" "Why?" "Tomorrow in my cab" "I won't even have funny thoughts" "I was mistaken" "They took a cab" "Julie was so tired she gave her address inadvertently" "She realized it but it was too late" "She couldn't take her word back" "Anyway" "I won't look at you go in Julie" "No, Joseph but it showed she had relinquished what he couldn't stand" "Do you want me to get out now?" "But no Joseph, it's not important" "You're the one to say that, Julie!" "To say that it's not important" "When she had gotten out she had said goodbye to Joseph" "Goodbye Julie" "No, I know tomorrow is Sunday" "See you on Monday" "It's nice." "Do you like it?" "I can see plants in this corner" "Yes" "It's acrylic, a good paint" "It's a good color, restful for the eyes" "It's true Julie, it's restful" "When they were finished that night, the neighbors organized a house-warming" "And Julie wondered why not dance" "Jack didn't go to work that night" "It was normal." "It was Sunday" "We still have time to ourselves before dark" "Then Julie started to tell him about Joseph." "Very calmly" "For it was time for him to know" "For what she had thought possible was no longer so" "I was tired of walking alone in the big city and I loved you so much" "I distrusted neither Joseph nor myself nor the endless walks in the summer nights of Paris" "so it was that Julie left both Jack and Joseph"