"Based on "Psyche", by Sándor Weöres" "Scenario by Vilmos Csaplár and Gábor Bódy" "Psyche that is, Countess Erzsébet Lónyay" "was born in the year 1795 on the 27th of January at Nagylonya, she being the daughter of Janos Lónyay." "She used her title just for tradition." "Erzsébet Lónyay, born 27th January 1795, at Nagylónya." "The Habsburgs recognized the family's nobility, but not its rank." "Her mother, a gypsy girl's bastard, had been adopted by Count Majlath, thus she was Countess Barbara Majlath." "Count Majlath regarded Psyche's mother as his own child." "She considered herself a descendant of the gypsy kind Szindel." "Her husband studied astronomy and astrology." "Her interests were piano, organ and cimbalom playing." "No wonder, therefore, that their first daughter was named Anna Urania Erato and the second, Erzsébet Mária Psyche." "The famous gypsy violinist János Bihari visited Nagylónya ...and the wife of János Lónyay ran away with him." "She took her daughter with her;" "Erzsébet Mária Psyche, then three." "Bihari's relatives lived in the gypsy settlement near Miskolc." "There Psyche spent her childhood." "Her mother met János Bihari ...the gypsy violinist who was renowned throughout Europe..." "Psyche's mother played the cimbalom making music with János Bihari ...until their mutual talents ran away with each other." "After her mother's death, Psyche was reared by the violinist's relatives and by kind-hearted common folk." "One such as László Tóth, the shoemaker's grandson to whom Psyche remained attached all her life." "Later, her uncle sent her to a convent school:" "St. Catherine of Sienna's at Regensburg." "She left there at fourteen and then went to live with her sister." "Anna, known as Ninon, was married to a landowner, Gaston Haller." "The scene of her happy youth is Tállya, in northern Hungary." "Joso's mare is wonderful." "I'd rather be riding, too." "What lovely weather!" "Mother wishes us to arrive by carriage." "She is stubborn, I hear." "She holds to her ideas; but you needn't be afraid of her." "I'm not afraid;" "I've suffered many things." "If she encounters no resistance she softens immediately." "She agrees to our engagement, though she's never met you." "My father was a stubborn fool like her." "My mother is not a fool." "My father was; for years he didn't want to see me." "He let me live among gypsies and shoemakers, then one day he sent a carriage for me and ordered them to let me go." "True, little one?" "Let him sleep." "I love you." "I've written another poem for you." "I hope it's not as bad as the last." "Only you said it was bad;" "my mother liked it." "You showed it to her, too?" " Did she like it?" " She praised me." "She doesn't know much about poetry." "Why not?" "Who does?" "I'll show you." "Where are we going?" "To Bányácska." "Good, they feed you well there." "Let's not go there now; my mother expects us by evening." "If we're not there by evening, we'll be there in the morning." " Ars longa, vita brevis est." " That's just what I've been thinking." "My suitor, Isti Terek, writes poems." "He's come for the great critic to appraise his efforts." "So you will be a poet-pair." "I am a passionate horseman." "...and i put my horses into my love poems, too." "How extraordinary..." "You're as lovely as a horse." "You hurt my heart without remorse" "I a stallion, you a mare, Will grow old without a care" "Tell me if it is poor, I shall not take offence." "Here's the other one." " Fair Erzsébet, I beg, Harness..." " My old nag?" "It rhymes alternately." "Fair Erzsébet, I beg, harness my horse" "We shall rise side by side If I harness yours." "The younger lady is a better poet than her future husband." "The verses my little Erzsébet has composed make me believe that her poetic touch, her warming breath will be felt in centuries to come!" "One I'm especially fond of." "I always have it with me." "As the night is approaching, I, Psyche, bathe myself." "In rose petals, in rosemary." "In the scent of century." "I adorn my neck with pearls, My fingers with rings." "Lo, I lie upon my bed, Bedecked with all my jewels." "For in the coppice of my dreams, There I shall encounter..." "For in the coppice of my dreams, There I shall encounter..." "A gallant, handsome lad With eyes afire, so bold." "The finest, best of men, Whose name I cannot speak..." "The finest, best of men;" "His love is the love I seek." "Capital!" "The Muses bless you." "If you had a moustache, I'd tweak it." "Dear child, you are disrespectful." "She is but a child." "No longer a child, a woman - to say the least." "Where are you going?" "Wait." "Go and write poems to your mother." "And the wedding?" "Hm?" "It will surely happen soon." "To the great delight of my sister and her husband." "How are things going in Tállya?" "It's alright." "What kind of... company has assembled there?" "!" " Do gossips reach even Kassa?" " Your repute is not up to much." "Gaston is always out hunting." "At nights he's just sizzling tipsily." "My sister's doing her job like a yoked ox." "What should I do?" "Sit at home and watch them?" "Are you in need of anything?" "I've got what I need." "And what do I need...?" "Nothing, after all..." "Nothing..." "*****************************" "Alright then." "En cochon d'Or." "Gold-piglet!" "Keep it!" "Get thee gone to Isti Terek!" "A bride has to be beside her groom!" "Succades approaching!" "Stop caressing me, Miss!" "I am a swordsman, a horseman, I do not want a vampire to drain my strength." "I, too, wrote a poem about Erzsébet." ""My Afflation"" "The little maiden" "That inspires my verses" "That the Muse gave me," "Is a roguish little scamp" "Countess Erzsébet, I beseech you!" "I want to have no dealings with ladies as yet," "I want to safeguard my chastity for as long as possible." "My unbroken strength..." "What have you done?" "Everything from you leaks onto my pants." "And no one will wash the stain of shame off me." "A soldier must never be afraid." "Don't be afraid and don't mind my reputation." "Perfect!" "A true masterpiece!" "Psyche is not just a poet." "She's also a muse." "A muse!" "Are you asleep, children?" "I'm tired from riding." "I must have dozed off a little." "I was wrong." "Love doesn't drain energy, but induces it." "If you stay with me, I'll change from a swordsman to a hero." "If you were my wife..." "I would save my poor country." "Your late father pushed his wife into sorrow, and you'll be no better or worse." "You shall marry no one." "Kiss my left hand when you have it, don't ache my right," "I will not give it to you." "It's fairer if I stay free." "Come indoors, let us play the clavier!" "Time to start, brother." "It's getting dark." "My mare can find her way home in the dark too." "Krisztinka, why are you limp?" "I shall not budge until you give in to me, Erzsi." "Josó, you came close with beautiful words." "But a thousand eyes follow me everywhere." "I can't do all you hope for." "But tonight I shall be up late." "I shall be reading Sappho." "Come to me." "Is it you?" "!" "Let me go!" "What do you want?" "You've stained my dress with blood!" "Will you buy me a new one?" "Red flowers go well with white." "I'm not your wife." "You make everything worse, not better." "You torturer of women!" "You ugly fart of your mother!" "I should have never gotten married!" "What happened?" "All he can do is beat me!" "Did he do this?" "He bit me." "That animal!" "Open up!" "Open up!" "Come out, or I'll shoot the lock to pieces!" "Come out!" "I said come out!" "I'll slay the evil spirit that makes you always miscarry!" "Keep quiet..." "He'll go away." "He'll soon go away." "I'm going out." "Let him beat me to death." "No, you must stay!" "This is horrible." " You will come to know it, too." " No, I won't." "I will not live like this." "I hope not." " May I take the carriage?" " Where to?" "To Réde." "All right." "László Tóth also lived and tutored in the Highland, in the manor of Réde." "Her childhood friend, who wrote poems in both Hungarian and Greek." "He fervently wished to rise to greatness from his lowly state, so poetry..." "Psyche has known the poet, László Tóth since the exile of her childhood..." "From Avas, alongside Miskolc." "She lived here with her mother and Bihari's gypsy kin." "Back then he taught Erzsébet Lónyay to write, and now he's teaching her how to poetize." "The gifted pupil followed, admiring and haunting her teacher with a child's secret love, both back then and later too." "With respect... for the elegant poetry of László Tóth, with high hopes... and great expectations... the noble and rich Rhédey family... appointed him... as an instructor." "His pupils were flying around him... like gentle and sweet doves." "These titled and rich maidens vied for the favours of the poor descendant of a clergyman and a shoemaker." " Elise!" " Laci!" "It's ages since you were here." "It was only a week." "How is the honourable and charming Countess?" "What's wrong?" "You look as if you've had a tooth out." "It's worse than that." "Are you ill?" "What ails you?" "A painful and lasting disease." "What sort is it?" "Is it your lungs?" "Or dropsy?" "Don't tell me you've got Lazarus' disease, leprosy." "No, Lidi, none of them." "I have the French disease." "You've got syphilis!" "Where do you get that, you woman-hater?" "No man alive has ever seen go you near a woman." "Was it from Klára Rhédey?" "No." "I got it years ago, in the gypsy settlement." "As a student of Calvinistic theology?" "Yes." "In celebration of the great day of the enrolment." "I thought that I had the right to some pleasure, too." "So you wanted another gypsy girl... and yet you cast me aside... every time when I offered myself in my ignorant craving." "But..." "I loved you." "You were a child." "Perhaps you still are." "I didn't dare to touch you, Lidi..." "Me a child?" "I am your mother, keep that in mind." "A mother who accepts you as you are." "Who feeds you when you're hungry." "How much money do you need?" "Five or six ducats would be enough to pay for a cure in Pest." "Here's one hundred and ten Forints, all my money." "I'll be well again, I'll be crowned with laurels, and then I'll throw... myself at your feet and say:" "don't mind the past, our childhood... the poverty, the suffering what we've lived in." "We were like brother and sister;" "let us now be lovers." "I have finished my great work." "A tragedy, composed in rhyme." "Its title is:" "Narcissus" "Did you get my letters?" "Your poems?" "I did." "No doubt there is a spark in them." "Fire even..." "But they are somewhat coarse, soiled with sensuality." "Be more subtle, more abstract." "Listen to this." "O gods!" "What a terrifying, bleak grove, is here around me" "And what a horrendous breeze whistles above me in the green foliage." "I tremble in my marrow, my knees, my hands and my every limb" "It seems there is no nook, no cranny in which i could escape from sight." "Ah, I shudder!" "Have they read it yet?" "Who?" "Your pupils." "Hear the latest work by Hungary's poet of promise." "A tragedy titled Narcissus." "Counts and countesses!" "Let the performance begin." "It's no secret." "All right, let's play." "Let's perform it." "What is the story?" "It is set in a grove in Thessaly, when gods still mixed with mortals." "Thou shalt not blind me, whoever thou art." "I swear." "Some see everything in his work, but in his life, nothing." "His eyes always look upwards." "Take a look around you, for once." "Psyche?" "Where is Psyche?" "Laci..." "Lidi." "Why do you keep away?" " Are you bored already?" " No." "What's the matter?" "I am resting." "Resting?" "My head is swimming." "Are you dizzy?" "What can I do to help?" "You?" "Don't do a thing." "It usually passes after a while." "But what ails you?" "Some sort of women's disease." "At times I bleed unexpectedly." "And my head swims." "Such things are not without cause and consequences." "Is it better over there?" "My purity, which held you back, was destroyed by Gaston." "Gaston, your sister's husband?" "I was fourteen and he often took me incestuously." "I played with him out of boredom, then he subdued me by force." "Once I even conceived." "Gaston kept hitting my belly then..." "I had a miscarriage and it almost killed me too." "I have been bleeding and agonizing ever since." "Have you not seen a doctor to heal you?" " Not yet." " Why not?" "I wanted to find a doctor now." "I thought you would help me." "I'll give you back the money you gave me." "No." "Don't." "It is more urgent that you cure your syphilis." "Go to Pest as soon as you can." "There you'll surely find someone to cure me, too." "By then I might have some money saved again." "Let me in." "Let me in!" "Leave her." "Here's your cloak." "Put it on." "Dear Elise, the sisters are looking for you." "They're taking you with them." "We must find our inner peace." "It is most important." "We've always provided for you, haven't we?" "You know that we forget the good things and remember only the bad things." "Or vice versa..." "Poor thing." "I'm not going!" "Let me go!" " Get in the coach." " I'm not going." "Let me go!" "Go away, Palkó." " I want to go with her." " Lise has to go away." "A girl's place is in the convent." "You could wield a sword before long." "Gaston had enough of Psyche's juvenal nymphomania for young lads." "He sent her back to the convent of St. Catherine of Siena Psyche's adolescent nymphomania... was too much for her brother-in-law, her first lover." "They sent her back... to the Dominican nuns... to Regensburg." "THE YEARS OF WANDERING" "Where she has spent... some... cruel years as a child." "Wait, Laci..." "I want to say something..." "Come back to Réde soon." " It was foolish of you to come here." " I don't care." " This could taint a countess's reputation." " I don't care" "Józsi Szilassy will care" "I won't marry him, anyway." "You will." "Everyone wishes it so." " Only I don't." " Let go!" "I shouldn't be late." "The Archbishop is expecting me." "Laci, stay at Réde, don't leave me." "Why should we make such a contract?" "The social difference between us is insurmountable." "I will ask my father to obtain a scholarship for you." "You could study at Pest university." "I already have a scholarship, by the grace of the Archbishop." "I see." "So that is the reason for your coldness towards me?" "I have never been different." "You desert those who no longer serve your interests." "But you abjured your faith too for 500 silver Forints." "I believe in neither the Roman nor the Helvetian God." "Only in the aesthetic and historic authority of the Greek-Latin gods." "Therefore, I am not abjuring my faith, only my matriculation certificate." "I wasn't born a Count Rhédey... or a Baron Fischer." "My poverty spurs me... to do everything that will advance my ambitions." "I'll follow you to Pest, anyway!" "Don't you dare!" "Klára, if you do so, I shall inform your father at once." "I shall make my own way, without any burdens." "Do you understand me?" "His Grace Archbishop Fischer summons Mr. László Tóth." "The groups labouring above the main entrance... illustrate the scientific departments of the Faculty of Arts." "Here are the professional scholars... of land-surveying, astronomy, military and... political geography, chemistry and optics." "The laterna magika can also be found amongst the instruments." "On the left... a Hungarian-suited man... holds up our country's compilation of laws." "On the estrade, there is the Superior Court." "Unfortunately the sitting judiciary - besides some heads - are concealed by the high chair-backs." "At the head above the window, the fathers and greats of our church... are listening to the declaimer of... some theological term earnestly and with decorum." "Little angels flitter above... propagating, that..." "In the beginning was the Word." "The last grouping... shows us the state the Art of Medicine." "We can not deny... the great importance of the dissection of the body." "With the nun's permission, Psyche could break her journey." "...at the house of relatives, she has met Baron Zedlitz on her way, she met Baron Maximilian Freiher von Zedlitz..." "The eccentric, lame, Freemason scholar... reminded Psyche of her father." "Unable to bear the austere convent, she turned to the Baron..." "She wrote in a letter that he must free her from Regensburg at all costs." "She promised to compensate him for her freedom." "Zedlitz, leading a gaudy company, came to the convent and, as her fiancé... asked for the release of the young Countess, his betrothed." "You have come from the convent into the very heart of Europe, Countess." "Everyone here is victorious." "Victorious and immortal." "But take care, because every third victor, every third celebrant, is a paid agent." "That is why there is such a crowd." "I love you, Countess, not Europe." " The betrothal..." " Such a pretty tune, Baron." "And even the spies are so cheerful." "Well, the Titan has been defeated." "Recipes replace ideas." "And I too would rather dine separately with you." "Let us ignore the interrelations." "Allow me this paradox:" "French rationalism and the English theory of dead-lock ...which means that anyone who wants to move has to be dead-locked." "You are scintillating today, though treaties always mean the end of peace." "Is it true, my dove?" "Let us flee from the quadrille." "Have you ever been in love?" " Sincerely or professedly?" " Sincerely." "You're beautiful." "Let us dawdle a little." "Offer your arm to me." "May I?" "Let's go." "What are you doing here?" "Are you mad?" "Get lost!" "Poorness is an ornament to world-history, Countess... and also a pledge of the freedom to come." "But the ambassadors don't have letters of procuration in their pockets for the poor." "Aber was machen Sie?" "What happened to you?" "Picayune." "Don't excite yourself, Baron." "I slapped an over-excited rooster." "You look over-excited, too." "Countess..." " Do you know who you slapped?" " Who?" " The Minister of Police." " Really?" "Is that such a sacrilege that you dare not invite me to dance?" "You are burning like a flame, Countess." "Our betrothal can not remain knavery." "I shall travel to my parents for their approval right away, if you want me to." "Stay where you are, Baron." "The ball-season is not yet over." "When an adolescent, the Archduke of Lothringen... wanted to marry her, she was exiled from the capital, as a fraud." "The boy fell for Elise at first sight, and... was unsuspecting and meant no harm." "Archduke Salvatore Xavier saw them together..." "The boy was sentenced for three months in the... casern prison, so he couldn't meet his sweetheart." "The incident with the Minister of Police remained a secret, covered by the heavy leaves of the palms..." "But soon policemen called at her lodgings with the Minister's order:" ""Elise Lonya, who falsely purports to be Princess of Transylvania  is a gypsy adventuress who shall be expelled from the capital"." "Baron Zedlitz followed his fake-fiancée into exile too." "You two-headed armour-animals!" "Crawl inside here!" "Damn you all to hell..." "At some post-house." "What the...?" "Why the hell are you here?" "Leave me in peace!" "Don't follow me everywhere!" "Rent a room and order dinner." "Don't stand gaping." "The night is falling." "Seeing as you're here..." "Why won't you eat?" "What's wrong, Baron?" "I went to see my parents at Kramow to ask their assent to our intended marriage." "I was there for almost a month." "In vain." "I'd not have married you even if... your family had sent the best man for me." "I have a great love." "I do not know whether he is alive or dead... but I always think of him when we're apart, ever since childhood." "He's with me even now." "He taught me to write a neat c and a y" "Quick-greying, uniting, shild-bearding decent ingle, milk-smell, swaddle-niff" "I'll never be a milk-cow, not me, forever mourning my wandering." "Won't you have some of this fruit, Freiherr von Zedlitz?" "Do you deny perhaps, that... a new life is beginning?" "What life would that be?" "After the revolutions..." "Napoleon... after devastating wars... after fights that shook many empires we must have a new world." "If by that you mean marriage, I'll have none of it." "Let's go!" "Are you leaving?" "Ride!" "Adieu." "Does a László Tóth live here?" "László Tóth..." "I don't know." "What do you take me for?" "Sir, I'm looking for László Tóth." "Who?" "Tóth?" "Go that way." "To the left." "You'll find him in there, if he's at home." "Quicker!" "Move your legs!" " Is this Mr. Tóth's lodging?" " That door." "I hope the clout rots on you..." "Laci!" "I had difficulty finding you." "Really?" "Everyone seems to do so lately." "Sorry, I knocked it off." "What is this?" "The bone-saw." "I've changed over to medicine." "Poetry is but eating air or swimming in fog." "It is knowledge, not poetry, that the Olympians enwreathe in our days." "Poetry stills haunts you." "Man's creation" "Pour acrid onto clay... releasing this way the coal-spirit... and transformed the clay will be." "Destroy my dust-frame, let my soul evaporate" "My clay will be transformed into a different, new body." "Now I write nothing but epigrams." "Perhaps." "But they're equal in value to Faust." "I'd like to bathe." "To wash my dust-frame." "This place is no good for one... who is used to castles." "I wash myself in this, you see." "I'll be right back." "Faster!" "Move your feet!" "And you?" "Hurry up!" "Mr. Quill-driver..." "A little urge to work?" "Move over!" "Did you cut yourself?" "Don't bleed all over the place!" "Remember how you taught me to write?" "I've grown up, eh?" "The learned poet is now done with me." "You've grown up indeed." "Into a great whore." "There'll always be men's hands to paw you, as you desire." "What did you say, you syphilitic?" "!" "You dared not take my virginity, which would have been God-given." "And your famous purity drove you to gypsy trollops at the creek!" "Now you can't lie with any woman who's not like you, so you pretend virtue." "You're afraid to show your love, but not your jealousy." "You are all twisted and yet you dare to call me crooked!" " What are you doing?" " Sleeping" "Why make two nests in such a hovel?" "I'd rather find an inn." "Lidi..." "Stay." "Let's sleep together, like we did in the shack." "Let's sleep together." "Whatever." "Deformatio dorsalis." "The back side." "Deformatio caudalis." "Deformatio generealis." "A totally deformed body." "Is this a normal body?" "Normal Gestalt." "None of them seemed normal to me." "Were you really in love with me?" "Always, and I still love you." "Take it off." " What for?" " Take it off." "I'd stain the bed with blood." "Dancing makes my bleeding worse." "You've always loved me, yet you've never been mine, Lidi." "Blame yourself and your harlots." "Girls sleep with me now, too." "They don't catch the disease, it's milder." "I'm afraid." "Don't experiment with me" "Nothing will happen to you, you'll see." "Nothing." "Let me..." "Laci, don't." "You gypsy whore!" "Psyche!" "Gypsy... whore..." "I prepared a bath." "Go and wash yourself." "A little water won't harm you." "You smell of carcasses." "Were you autopsying again?" "Leave me alone, Lidi." "Can't you see I'm writing?" "One light, one gleam, and one image is drawn by truth." "...one image is drawn by truth." "Lidi." "Lidi!" "Look what I've brought from the university." "One light, one gleam, and one image is drawn by truth." "And yet it stands in front of us in its thousand forms." "No wonder, because a condense mind breaks the gleam elseways towards its end and... destination, as a sparse one." "And yet it stands in front of us in its thousand forms." "No wonder... because a condense mind breaks the gleam elseways... towards its end and destination, as a sparse one." "Give it to me." "One light, one gleam, and one image is drawn by truth." "Yet it stands in front of us in its thousand forms." "No wonder, because a condense mind breaks the gleam... elseways towards its end and destination, as a sparse one." "I want my writing to have smell, taste - something tactile." "Make them think I lay with them, when I mention my hips or breasts." "or at least that I'm close to them." " Where are you going?" " Right here." "Why do you sit apart?" "You might be a whore, but I'm not." "Life is overfilled with whoredom." "So I despise and avoid it in my poems." "Though I must serve it in everyday life," "I won't serve it with my poetry." "They think you're in love with me." "If life dishonours me and everyone... than I shall dishonour life too." "My hymns soar above dust and mud." "They abdicate and defeat the subordinate." "That's why I don't scribble poems to girls." "Not anymore." "Not even to you, Lidi." "He who soars in poetry, flounders in a hole in nature." "And whomsover is clean in nature, shows his arse in poetry." "Just like you." "Dredge the scabs out from under your nails instead." "These English gentlemen might form a bad opinion of the native medicine." "Herein." "Herr Professor..." "It's ten past ten." "I've sent my assistant to make a delivery." "I'm sorry." "Oh, Countess..." "Very well, then." "Herr Tóth has told me of your anomalous bleedings." "I'll examine you and we'll see what we can do." "Don't be afraid." "Have a seat here." "Laci!" "Don't go away." "Ja bitte..." "A clever rocking-chair, isn't it?" "I had it made to my own plans for three gold Forints... by the best craftsman in Vienna... who provides furniture for His Majesty as well." "A real aristocratic vessel, a true Japanese vase... we'll see what has caused it to split, and after that I'll operate." "Whoops!" "Does it hurt?" "It shouldn't hurt." "Of course it doesn't hurt." "Nature responds to offence with offence." "Ich habe einen Polipus gefunden." "I've found a polyp, madam." "It's most likely the cause of all your troubles." "But do not worry." "If we excise it, there'll be peace in the vase." "This should do it." "No..." "No!" " We'll remove it." " No!" "Indeed we will." "No!" "Calm down." "Professor..." "Herr Professor." "Will you operate right now?" "Why should we wait?" "We'll pinch off the small dragon head." "Let's hope that it won't grow back." "If you want to be rid of your trouble, you must consent." "No." "Why won't you understand?" "We'll put one leg up here..." "The other one here..." "Come help me, Lancelot." "Tie her leg down real tight." "I'll do the other one." "Put your hand in here, Countess." "Right here." "Tie her hands firmly too." "I'm scared." "Leave me!" "Don't go, Laci!" "All done." "We're ready." "Untie her, amice." "Ripped by gogbad, translated by malenkij Proofed by MENiSCUS" "After the operation, Psyche regained her health." "The operation helped her..." "Liberated from bodily trouble, she regained the freedom of her soul, too." "The power of the soul, unless created by despair, won't be predominating without the body's endurance or its - so to say - condition." "Amidst the limp objections of the weak Orders... only Baron Mika gave a worthy answer." "And why?" "Come on... tell me, why?" "!" "Because his fist - his bare fist - was pressed!" "Bah!" "It's only comedy... scandal..." "May I hear the story too?" "Lidi..." "Get dressed!" "I used to know the Baron." "Who does Countess Lónyai not know..." "Good evening." " I'm pleased to meet you again." " She's pleased too." " I'll be right back." "Anyway." "On the 26th of May, the appointed day of the Transylvanian Parliament..." "Ferdinand Estei, who replaced Vlasits as the king's commissary... informed the Orders that the Parliament was delayed for two days." "The Orders..." " Is the Baron still in Transylvania?" " Et causa... the chamber is not equipped, and not practicable." "The delegates are indignant, and they wither away." "But Baron Mika..." "At first he merely knocked, but then he rattled the door frightfully... and, as he said, he left it in one piece only out of becomingness." "So is he still in Transylvania?" "He wants to open a lithography workshop." "To publish the parliamentary papers in spite of the censorship." "And what does Bratislava say?" "Bratislava stands by him with heart and soul." "The youthful Members of Parliament even paid obeisance to him in a letter." "He always desired to step up on a plinth." "If the little miss cares for some piquancy, the diet is now prosecuting... that the king should sign his papers as Ferdinand the Fifth, for he is not first as Hungarian King, even if he is the first as Kaiser." " This is why the upper and lower table are at quarrel." " About the king's title!" "Eventually, the king said," " that the Orders should send the papers in unaddressed envelopes." " The king...!" "The king only cares about the letter." "That's how kings are." "You dressed up in vain." "The auberge, where we wanted to have dinner tonight, went bankrupt." "Everyone suddenly goes broke when I want to have dinner." "You stink of the kitchen of politics from afar." "I wonder why, because there has been no cooking lately." "Only the under-cooks brawl." "I've been in Pest for some days, waiting for the county's commission." " Let me see the receipt-book!" " Here you go." "You can see that I'm not guarded by anyone." "And I don't mind your closeness either." "But we should not burn each other." "If I were to burn away in a white glow... it would not terrify me... as much as the fear of parting from you." "Why are you talking about parting?" "I have to go to Bratislava on duty... to the diet, maybe tomorrow." "Bratislava might be a big city." "But not so big that you couldn't find me in it." "The countess in Bratislava?" "I'm travelling to the Highland through Bratislava." "BRATISLAVA" "The king is no longer the head of the country when he lives abroad." "That's one." "Two..." "The king should assume the responsibility to keep the law." "Three..." "The kingdom does not fall to the distaff side." "Four..." "Without the permission of Parliament no wars can be started, and no peace can be declared." "Five..." "The Hungarian army cannot be used to oppress other nations!" " Six..." " Desipient..." "Seven." "Fantastic." "Nota bene, it really is desipient." "Eight." "World Freedom should be proclaimed right away!" " Nine..." " Some things might be exaggerated or out of time... but it's apt to start a debate in the counties... which will dredge up the country's common will!" " Where was it printed?" " In Hamburg." "Everyone will see rebellion in this constitution." "That is why only the safest hands can carry it." "Can I open it now?" "Oh, it was so hard to break free." "There was this huge group." "Full of court councillors, aristocrats, peers, generals..." "Too much talk and champagne made me sleepy." "Pardon monsieur." "Who's going to get wine?" "We don't need wine!" "Everyone has his assignment for tonight." "I've prepared the portion and penitence for you too." "The king is no more the head of the country when he lives abroad." "Your uncle is one of the ringleaders of the aulic ultraconservatives." "Our arch-enemy." "I know." "The king should assume the responsibility..." "My parents forgot to dash off my dear uncle's political career." "So I gladly abided sitting in his lap as an infant." "And I often pissed on him too." "The kingdom does not fall to the..." "We both loved to play gold-piglet... which he learnt from a gypsy wayfarer." "He'd grab my nose with two of his fingers... and drop a gold coin into my palm." "It's true that his feelings for you are not exactly friendly." "When he asked about me, and I mentioned your name, he turned red..." "And he popped the tap like ferment wine." " Zoltán..." "Do you have some kind of discussion-group?" " Why?" "My uncle says that its days are numbered, and the wretched members will soon learn their lesson." "The club can not be disincorporated!" "Our ground rules... have been laid down by the best jurists of the country." "No one can pick a quarrel with that!" "Without the per-mis-si-on..." "I've heard that Dávid Zsolnay left, because the card-game grew rougher." "The club is more important than one attitudinizer!" "These letters prove... that we are a great hope for the country's youth!" "In this lacerated country... even if its in a casino... where will you find... an altruistically united society?" "!" "You should also know... that we are setting the fundaments... of a greater task: our freedom." "Tell me..." "Doesn't your great freedom come with too many bonds?" "Regulations, code-words..." "Lengthen or fatten your letters, so the enemy won't recognize your handwriting." "You here?" "How dare you bring the countess here?" "!" "Erzsi is our follower." "I take full responsibility for her." "I don't care for your responsibility." "This is an unwarranted risk." "To put her through this is a huge irresponsibility." " Is there something wrong with me?" " Oh, no." "What's the problem?" "Women don't usually come here." "Doesn't matter, I'm here." "I'll let you in on something, then." "Do you want to see?" "Come with me." " Behold!" " Let me go!" "Don't fool around!" "Let me go!" "You beast!" "Please..." "Let me go!" "I might as well have saved my breath." "Big onrush, little pop..." "And you tore my dress too." "You ass..." "I'm all... wet..." "How will I go out now?" "My clothes are torn too." "Towel yourself!" "I'll apologize in the quarters." "Thank you on behalf of the countess." "Try it on." "Show yourself..." "Will you look at that!" "You look great in boys' clothes." "A true parliamentary clerk." "I say... it would be one hell of a joke." "You'll see, you can safely come here from now on." "Schuldigung bitte..." "A little game?" "In the name of my mandators, the nobilities of the free hundred of Nyitra, and in my own name, let me oppose my last words... in this pernicious moment!" "I would be ready to participate, in the form of ultroneous taxation, or a nation-wide scheduled conscription, in the effectuation of this beautiful idea." "But I will not reach out... my helping hand to the felling of the abdominous tree... of the nobiliary freedom!" "What would those foreigners, who pay attention to our country, think of the Hungarian people... if we sacrificed... one of the main, and finest, privileges of our small comfort and dubious conduciveness, and we would build bridges... on the blond waves of the hoary Danube?" "!" "What?" "Is it really the intent of the constitution, that we should crawl in mud?" "!" " This way, the homeland will certainly perish!" " That's right!" "He's right!" "The palatine has every reason... to keep the case away from the Parliament." "He earns 200.000 Forints a year from his late wife," "Alexandra Pavlovna, who was related to the tzar." "Don't leave her there." "Come with us." "It would be unpleasant for him to stir up the Polish affair, right?" "It's hardly preventable." "Did Borsiczky deliver the letter?" "Yes, but he declared that if some... delegate brings it up before he received the Polish committee's answer, he would have to take it back, and put it in." "If your proposal is voted down... you'll sigh even on your death-bed with heaviness of heart:" "poor Polish nation, the whole World abandoned you!" "Poor Hungarian nation, too." "Because he who deserts others will himself be deserted." "If Louis-Philippe and his nation had let them drown, and no one rose up in arms in Wilson's homeland for their rights, what can we expect from a nation that wears its sword only on feasts and with a blunt edge?" "!" "After the European courts... broke Napoleon's empire with the help of their people, each and every one of them broke their promise... to give their nations a constitution." "We fight for our Constitution." "The Polish... fight for their freedom!" "We are both alone." "That's right!" "And we have another thing in common." "Instead of wearing proper clothes..." " Let me sit for another exam." " Leave me alone." "If you leave me alone, I'll write you... a diploma that every breed accepts." "I can't live like a failure forever." "...the eyes of Europe are vigilant against insomnia!" "Our national pride has lain dormant for years now before such issues as the copyhold, the rules of the partage of general taxes - which should be the Parliament's duty." "They would rather close their doors when hearing of such difficulties." "Balogh is no hero but a barn-stormer, who flaunts himself in the overindulgence of the democratic principles." "And always avails himself of the opportunity to make the aristocracy feel his hatred." "As a matter of fact, he is himself osbtructing work on the country's situation." "Just like those who take everything that comes from the government for malificence..." "And seek their own glory in endless fault-finding." "I will not abide this!" "I dare you to fight a duel!" "Wipe your ass with it, amice." "After that you might be accepted into the athletic club in Wiener Neustadt." "Let me through!" "That bastard..." "I will never sit down with them again!" "Why the long face, Zoltán?" " We've lost another man." " Which one?" "What a beautiful horse!" "It's a valuable asset." " The ambassador paid 500 morgens for him." " Let me ride him for nothing." "Be careful, he heaps his back and slips on purpose." "Maybe under your arse." "World-history teaches us, that... nations will always arise, and nations will always vanish." "I have more respect for the Wings and the Orders..." "I wouldn't assume that... they would want to tumble over the ash-covered cars of Europe." "Nations will always arise, nations will always vanish" "As a member for Esztergom..." "I think that there is nothing new in this statement because history teaches us that much." "But history does not teach us... that we shall leave a distressed nation on its own... and just watch its suffering in silence... and not help as best we can." "And if there is no more in our power... that we could do for the underprivileged... than offer compassion and sympathy... we must offer even this meagre easement... if there is no more that we can do." "But we shall offer it instantly, without any delay!" "That's right." " It's rising!" " Look out!" " Grab it!" " Everyone grab the ropes!" "Go to the other side!" "Don't these pieces look nice?" "We should get more." "We could plant the whole court with them." "Why couldn't a little forest grow here?" "We'll talk about this later in the club." "You're still here?" "Why won't you rest?" " What happened to you?" " He got run over by the Vienna Coach." " It's a bad sign." " Bad it is!" "Someone else rides my horse, and I'm on foot." "Freedom..." "Is it not World Freedom that springs up from every tree?" "From everything that grows..." "On what account are you mocking our noble ideals, Sir?" "Me?" "I was just starting to like them." "The forest on the Parliament's court would mean, that bridges are being built from iron and not lumber." "This isn't any more visionary than some proclamations." " What are you suggesting?" " It's lifting up!" "Hold it!" "Pull it!" "I'll help!" "Get away!" "Get away from here!" "Leave me alone!" "You'll hurt yourself." "Am I a boy to no avail?" "You're no boy!" "This part should be more powerful." "The spirit of the Tartaric Overrun demands it." "They are my guests." "Get to work!" "You are welcome!" "Give me your hand." "Careful, Károng broke his ankle here yesterday." "Welcome, welcome..." "And the poet..." "God bless you!" "We've been waiting you." "Like every Hungarian with abnegation who drives a quill." "your tragedy moved me deeply... and convinced us of your genius." "For many a day..." "I lay down with this thought." "Alas, the topic does not attract the public today or patrons of the arts." "Look at the costumes of these patriots." "They have to cover the threadbare patches with ink." " What do you want?" "Go to the rehearsal!" " I'm going." "Now take this almost perfect strophe:" "Thou..." "Thou shall not..." "Thou shalt not blind me, whoever thou art..." "I solemnly swear by this matchless bow my ancestor won from Artemis ...thou shalt not blind me!" "To this, I swear!" "Whoever thou art" "That's when Narcissus refuses Echo's love." "I know the text" "Well now..." "What if we changed a line to this:" "I swear by Árpád, the Hungarian conqueror, and the homeland!" "I solemnly swear!" "...by this matchless bow my ancestor won from Árpád ...thou shalt not blind me." "...thou shalt not blind me!" "To this, I swear!" "A inconsiderable modification, thundering applause... and unbridled huzzas!" "Árpád fits in the classical context, like peasants fit in the opera." "So Attila the Hun, then!" "He fought the Romans." "Or Csanád." "Or Ond!" "Why not Töhötöm?" "No sir." "I am grateful for your criticism but your proposals prove that my visit was useless." "These times are not propitious for me." "I would not entrust you with my tragedy, which will survive the ages." "Laci, wait." "You do not understand me either, Fidél." "My eyes, fixed on the heights of Parnassus do not blink at the behest of minds gripped by politics." "Translate your drama into Greek, after all you're good in Greek." "Or German." "A German theatre might perform it." "...because it's only a water-reflection... it's empty... and has no existence." "Why are you always at my track?" "!" "Like dogs that smell a carcass." "Phew!" "Us?" "Dogs?" " Ich hab' da hoch jemanden gesehen." " Wo?" "Wenn er 'was verdächtig macht - schiessen sie." "It also aggravates Zoltán's case that witnesses came forth from his county, where he protested against the king." "A writing was found on a wall in Váradolaszi, stating:" "Viva freedom!" "Viva patriots!" "Death to Ferdinand!" "Terrible." "On what wall?" "On a backhouse." "He could even get ten years for treason." "You are on the list too." "How do you know this?" "Tell me!" "Tell me..." "I thought this way I could help Zoltán, so I confessed to my uncle, that I'm pregnant... and that he might be the father." ""Might be"?" "He also asked me that." "And demanded, that I name all the possibilities." "I mentioned..." "Your name too, Ferdinánd." "And who else?" "Dénes Pázmándy." "And...?" "Whatever." "He said, that we're all on the suspect-list." "We could be arrested at any minute." "He said that you were a bad influence on me." "I'm travelling to his estate in the Highlands to have my child." "And he will take care of it." "So we could be fathers?" "Show me your belly." "It's not that big." "Though you're a little skinny yourself." "Ferdinánd..." "For some, it doesn't even show in the fifth month." "Are you allowed to do everything?" "I wish this hammering would go away." "I have to go." "Don't go..." "Don't forget your duty." "You owe the county 40 copies." "Oh, how I hate to scribble!" "Damn it!" "These goddamn soldiers are everywhere!" "Go!" "Run into that street!" "Go!" "Run!" "Come on!" "Go!" "Halt!" "Halt!" "Die strasse freimachen!" "Here you go Countess." "We've been expecting you." "You don't even have to ask, you would have the best room anyway." "But don't have high expectations," "It's a dusty little station on the Hungarian border." "Your honoured uncle has stayed with us more than once." "But why am I talking so much..." "You must be tired." "Should I prepare a bath, or would you rather have a rest first?" "Prepare a bath as soon as you can, please." "I'll be waiting here." " Right away." " Sir..." "May I have an apple, if you have some?" "I'll get an apple." "Please deign to wait here." "I'll be right back." "János!" "János!" "Lidi!" "János...." "Forgive me, Countess!" "You know who sits in the drag?" "Baron Mika." "Are you a policeman too?" "Erzsi..." "After his long solicitations and intercessions, the government has suspended his punishment considering his eye problems." "Liza, the Baron is blind." "Completely blind." "I'm escorting him to his designated place in Austria, where he must live... as civil dead, incapacitated of... all his political rights under house-arrest." "And him?" "What about him?" "Come on, let's get moving." "János, come on." "Right away, Sir." "I'm coming." "Let go, Erzsi." "We must leave." "Tell me about Zoltán!" "Forget him." "He is no more." "Live for the future!" "You're about to become a mother." "Has he been killed?" "No..." "But he'll never be released." "His mind is unhinged, his soul is blind forever." "Let's go!" "Man and woman... carry the hidden symbols of nature." "Master Lund and I have been looking for the true meaning of these symbols." "Hermeneutic philosophy?" "The unity of micro and macrocosm." "You, as a man... or as a scientist, will understand... that I'm in search of... a missing symbol, a missing pole." "Yes indeed!" "These two poles are within us." "We are locked inside ourselves." "That is the truth." "Everything else is just illusion." "Is there something wrong?" "Enough of science." "The barriers of marriage... are crumbling to dust along with my parents." "I didn't want to get married." "I wanted her to have my children." "Marriage doesn't matter." "After all, it wouldn't even be a real marriage, merely in name." "And she's gone." "Gone!" "She's dead!" "KOŠICE" " Miss Erzsébet!" " Good evening." "Where are you?" "Look at these dresses!" "Did you sew these dresses, Miss Erzsébet?" "But mine is the prettiest, right?" "Show it to me!" "Let me try it on quickly." "When the Captain rides along the main street, every girl has to go out to see him." "At least for a walk, in case..." "It is said that wherever he goes, at least one woman commits suicide." "But Miss Erzsébet doesn't even know who this Captain is." "Why would she know?" "She won't leave her sewing-shop." " Should we tell her?" " Why not?" "Our love..." "All three of ours..." "Isn't it strange..." "One love in three different dresses." " Erzsébet, be my girlfriend!" " All right." " You're a Countess, right?" " Of course, she is." "Let's hope she's not our rival." "Oh, my feet." "Don't shake my bones." "How much do we owe you, Miss Erzsébet?" "As much as you figure." "Oh, we have so much to do." "Will you carry along the dresses now?" "The maid will take them in the afternoon." "We have a lot of shopping to do." " May I give you a kiss?" " Of course." "I'm afraid I might dance again." " And what about the admission?" " How much?" "Three crowns." " Three crowns?" " Three." "It might be four." " Three crowns?" " That's right." " He'll take her into the garden too." " The things you say..." "Countess Lónyay would gladly go with him." "Who invited her?" "I didn't." "Amy wanted to invite her." "Why wouldn't I?" "She's so alone." "How old can she be?" "Who knows?" "She's from afar." "She must be sixty." "It's not certain she is the Countess;" "no one in town knows her." "The Countess and the Captain... ridiculous!" "Doesn't matter, it will end eventually." "What?" "Life?" "No, I meant this ball." "Now come on." "Nusi!" "Wait up!" " Do you know what the Captain is doing in the bushes?" " No." "But I can imagine." "Miss Erzsébet, what's wrong?" "The Captain, maybe?" "Neaten my band, please." "Hey, you pulled it." "Tell me about those six Prussian hussars!" "I lashed out at them until I extricated myself, and chased them into Hungarian captivity." "So that's why you're the hero of Koniggratz." "I hear you've captured more girls than you've captured Prussians" "Is there a rank for that?" "When you're in my arms why talk of other girls?" "My poor feet..." "You're right, let's escape the next dance, my sweet." "Let us walk in the garden!" "Have you ever been in love?" "Can't you give me a kiss?" "Kratky, when you embrace me, all you break is my bones." "Give me a kiss, my dove." "Don't wring me!" "Your two children await you at home." "Exchange kisses with them at home!" "Wait, miss!" "Don't run away, I'll accompany you!" "We'll ride out at dawn and listen to the murmur of the trees." "We will rite until marasmus!" "Laci..." "Isn't it me you're looking for?" "Why you?" "I'm looking for work, honourable and charming Countess" "Don't call me Countess." "Forgive me..." "I'm nobody and nothing, not a jot better than you" "I've never felt such a nonentity as I do now." "Yet my rank is important to you." "You need a countess to look up to or a gypsy whore to look down on." "These are only attributes." "It makes no difference whether I call you a rag or trash." "Such is my lot." "Don't say that, Laci." "You are not unblemished." "See me home." "Where will you sleep?" "Laci, you are a godsend!" "Am I really a godsend?" "Maybe I'm bringing you a message from heaven." "If that is so, heaven only loves itself, too." "You want to know, who sent me?" "A baron sent me." "A lame Silesian baron is looking for you." "Maximilian Zedlitz?" "He wants to tell you, that his parents have died." "He'll reward even the person who finds you." "You'll get that, at least." "Lidi..." "I could have made money if I'd written the story of your affairs." "What can you know?" "Enough to publish 'Adventures galantes de la Countess Lónyay'." "A nice title." "I could have my disease cured with the money." "You're still ill?" "I could complete my unfinished studies." "Pest..." "Vienna or Paris would be more suitable than Pest." "You have far-fetched plans, Mr. Tóth." "Then we could marry." "A doctor medicous and a poetess countess." "I'm no countess." " You are." " And you are insane." "I'm insane, but such a marriage might admit me to the Upper House." "A possibility, minimo calculo." "And your being a whore doesn't matter because you were born a whore." "Lidi..." "Lidi, stop!" "Lidi..." " Laci..." " Erzsi...!" "Laci..." " Laci!" " Lidi!" "Laddie...!" "My mouth is bleeding." "Narcissus..." "Narcissus..." "Ripped by gogbad, translated by malenkij Proofed by MENiSCUS" "YEARS OF MARRIAGE" "At last, Baron Maximilian von Zedlitz finally found a trace." "Soon after, he appeared seeking Psyche's hand in marriage once more." "This time she did not refuse him." "They tied the knot, and took possession of Kramow manor in Silesia which was unoccupied since the death of Zedlitz's parents." "Psyche gifted him with two children." "A girl, Mari..." "They had two children." "The girl was named Mari, the boy was baptised in his father's name." "Although, the Baron promised his wife total liberty..." "Psyche never once left the Zedlitz Manor... in the first years of the marriage." "She lived for her family alone." "They continued the Baron's charitable habit, to... to help bind the fate of the Manor's inhabitants together." "...she didn't write much from then on." "The Baroness stopped writing poems." "I'll sit over there." "Follow us!" "Mari, I love you so much!" "Where the water takes you." " The Baron has come!" " We'll get some sweets for sure." "Oh, piggy, you're so beautiful!" "So beautiful!" "Greetings, Baron!" "Good day!" "So..." "Who's first?" "I am." "Sit down." " Where does it hurt?" " Here." "This one?" "All right." "We'll have a look at it." "You're next?" "Come on, don't be scared." "Sit down." " Won't it hurt?" " Of course not." " Is this the one?" " Yes." "All right." "Open your mouth." "Wider." "That's it." "This one?" "It'll grow back." "Ew, that stinks." "Got scared, little Baron?" "All right, Vaclav, you must inhale." "The cloth, please" "Above the bowl." "That's right." "Enough." "Is the ballerina in the court your granddaughter?" "Yes, unfortunately." "The bane of my life." "From my daft son-in-law." "The only one of my grandchildren who must be forced to work." "Otherwise she'd dance all day," "Whirling round like a giddy sheep." "She's not that giddy, Vaclav." "Max, have a look." "Her motion is so unique." "You don't see that everywhere." "I wish she could come along." "These are the miners' houses, Sir." "The colony." "Near to the mine, but far from their present hovels." "The dwellings are not beautiful, but everyone has their equal space... in accordance with the specifications you gave me." "And will the miners wish to move into these dwellings?" " That is not my business." " But these houses are all alike." "Monotonous." "If everyone sees the same, they'll feel the same too." "It's but one rung of the ladder, a partial solution, of course." "But it's better than the old one, and most importantly it is more capable of supporting a new life." "No doubt." "And the next generation can do even more." "That also depends on us." "I'd like to have detailed plans," " and an estimate of costs." " Yes, Sir." "It's most important that the arrayal of the... colony eliminates the uncontrollable anxiety caused by solitude." "Let them see each other's lives behind the identical windows." "Maybe they can improve this way." "The windows are identical, Sir." "And behind identical windows, their lives are identical too." "Let us not forget... that we don't know them." "Good day, Baron." "Welcome, Baroness!" " Good day." " Jan Viskoty." "I remember you." "Are your teeth all right?" " Yes, they are, thank you." " Good." "Greetings." " Frantisek Novak." " Jan Viskoty." "Go and fetch Hupka." "Yes, Sir." "Professor, I'd recommend those two men." "Those?" "Yes." "I'm going to examine you." "Stand closer, please." "Stand by each other." "Hold this." " Are you... brothers?" " No." "Polish?" "Ukranian." "Please hold this, Baron." "It's my notebook." "Your hat." "On what grounds do you call something abnormal?" "Alright... go ahead, do your measurements, Professor." "Your hat." "Are you satisfied with my men?" "The children settle in quicker than adults, without cares." "Yes, madam, they're playing about everywhere." "Dear Baroness." "Lidi..." "I inform you that an abnormal state overcame me when I heard of your marriage." "The possibility that something like this would happen one day has threatened me for a long time, and I didn't do a thing against it." "But when it came true..." "I felt like I couldn't bear it." "I distressed myself: what sort of material is a man, that wants his own ruination so much?" "I strolled the streets of Pest, days ran into one another," "I barely knew where I was." "And then, suddenly, I was at home in Avas." "I went up the hill from time to time, where you... flounced around me so much as a chit, exposing your nakedness." "The trees have peeled off long ago, and even the soiled earth is sweating." "As if it wants to sweat everything out that the factories didn't take already." "Something has really died in this region for good, and only those that gain profit from it think that it is progress." "The previous generation transmits its defectiveness to the next, which breeds more defectiveness." "And societies leave the birth of a perfect order for blind coincidence." "Ideas fly high, but humanity is staggering below." "My duty is... to create the system, that can turn the life of all citizens... of all states towards unequivocal progress once it is inaugurated." "Because without it, humanity is destined to high expectations and bitter disillusions." "At last, the dichotomy will be over!" "I can be a scientist and artist rolled into one!" "My pensiveness is over!" "Over!" "Okay, okay, it's quite a noble thought." "I would gladly listen to it more, but my driver will be here any minute," " and we have to get going to Kosice." " Your driver?" "Is this why you're here?" " So you came to snoop around!" " Laci, you should know that a doctor so you can make a good anecdote from it, right?" "Go away!" "Out of my sight!" " Go to your friends." " Madman!" "I'm not your friend anymore." " Go away!" "To Kosice!" "Go!" " You madman!" "Away with you!" "Go!" "For days, I couldn't move out from my miserable nook, which used to be my fathers shoe-shop, and the smell of glue and etchant still hadn't vanish." "You must remember it, because I taught the Honourable..." "Baroness in her infancy to write here." "You must remember it, because I taught the Honourable Baroness in her orphan-age to write here." "The apprentice has gone far, and I came closer and closer to the beginning." "Or the end." "I was cogitating upon this day after day, restless and sleepless in the company of mice." "Then the opposite urge:" "strolling around day and night, wandering onto the streets of the sphacelating past." "At dawn I met the workers on the street," "I saw all those imperfect bodies walking with a stoop, saw all the sadness in their distorted faces." "And one day, the thought that has been hiding inside... me for so long, encapsulated the idea of my life in one hour." "I have arrived in the future." "I, who stand outside the proliferating multitude of humanity have realised that our troubles lie in this unstemmed proliferation!" "It will be my task to create a system to turn the ranks of the proliferating towards progress!" "My sufferings and half-hearted efforts are over now which, in the case of a person like me, can only arise from the lack of the ultimate goal." "My syphilis, which I saw as a blow of fate was an early warning of this." "I, who am outside the proliferating multitude of humanity have realised... that the main problem is rooted in the proliferation's chaotic freedom." "My duty is to create the system, that will allow the states to turn the ranks of the proliferating towards progress." "Therefore, I will not return to Pest, but go straight to Vienna, which is a more suitable city for scientific activity." "I hope the Baroness will not refuse to support her childhood love and friend after you refused his marriage proposal." "Fate willed you not to be my wife, but you can be my patroness." "Fate willed you not to be my wife, but you can be my patroness." "László Tóth, scholar and poet..." "László Tóth, scholar and poet" "Dance Mari!" "I think we ought to have Ilse educated." "Dance, Ilse, dance!" " Educated for what?" " What do you think?" "She has a talent for dancing." "You mean a dancing school?" "There are masters, famous institutes that train ballerinas." "In Vienna." "In Vienna, Paris, Naples..." "Or in Vienna." "VIENNA" " I want to see Laci Tóth." " Yes, please." " Is he at home?" " Yes, please come in." "Be quiet, please." "He's still asleep." "Sit down, please." "The eye is one of our sense organs." "But can we trust it, when, as in these circumstances," "it projects before us the images of our fantasy?" "Where can we find assurance on anything... in the world that surrounds us?" "It has been ascertained, that there is someone in the room." "The eye... senses the honourable Baroness..." "Who was once..." "Erzsébet Lónyay." "The tou... the touch is..." "insensitive... impersonal." "It reveals a woman." "A woman... who could be anyone." "The results of smell confirms the experience of the touch." "It does not confirm that the person in the room is necessarily... the Baroness." "Who used to be called... simply... as.." "Lidi." "Laci, what's the matter with you?" "The sense of hearing..." "Hearing!" "Hearing... is our most reliable sense." "But in the agitated state of mind... it is capable of painting minutely detailed visions." "For that reason...we can not believe in anything." "Nothing exists... only I." "And the cells of my rational mind." "There are no feelings no memories." "Well, please be seated." "My illness is not a bodily trouble, Lidi." "It's my soul that is pining away in this town." "There's no more for me to learn here, and I would gladly accept any assistance." "Die Rolle des Individuum in der perfekzion des Schiksaals" "Did you write this?" "The Role of the Individual in the Perfection of Fate" "Get assistance for my treatise and my person." "Baron von Zedlitz could ask Professor Lorenz Ochsendorfer from Jena to sponsor me." "I understand that he is staying at Kramow." "Deutschland" "Paris" "London" "I am the last link, the most perfect one." "The last link... in a genetic chain." "Only decay and decomposition will follow me." "Therefore, I must not procreate." "I have to achieve everything... that I am destined to achieve." "Thus, if you want to put it that way, the aristocratic lady... is as much use to me as a nightingale..." "But... now, now... now when my career is rising... as my lawful... and predestined consort..." "Your allowance." "Don't you do it!" "You..." "Come here, you!" "What should I look at?" "It's daylight." "Do you see that house by the lake?" "It's so close!" "Is it sharp?" " Do you look at this all night long?" " At night, it's dark." "At nights I look at the other planets and the stars." "I keep looking at you, Ochsendorfer..." " 35." " Were you ever..." " a clergyman in Hungary?" " What an odd question, Baroness." "Priests are men of the soul." "A clergyman would have never attained such thoughts." "So you don't agree with that young scholar's idea either, whose essay I read at night." " Since he's been commended to my chair." " What essay is it?" "The Role of the Individual in the Perfection of Fate" "Heavens, Max!" "It is Laci's treatise." "To hell with monomania!" "God bless everyone." "Come on, Professor, your train is leaving." "I think, Professor, that it is the poetic manner of... the approach that captures the reader in Herr Tóth's treatise." "The individual's attempt at perfection, and the adaptation of humanity as a whole are two different things." " Am I right?" " Yes." "That young man is very talented." "Only the world cannot live by poetry alone." "Think about it:" "I don't spend my money on some handsome lad... or greasy hussar, but on my childhood friend who cannot lie with me." "Besides, why are you calling me to account?" "Wasn't it you who promised, nearly demanded, that I should keep my liberty in marriage?" "Is this your great freedom?" "You take me to task when I go to see my childhood friend?" "You didn't go away..." "You became distant." "And I keep wondering where you might be." "Do you?" "Why do you always want to know where I am?" "You left me alone with the stars." "Without you, they are nothing but cold lights... in a celestial hall." "Have you brought new instruments?" "Young Max is very lonely, since Mari is at the Institute." "Forget the children, talk about yourself." "Why won't you confess your regret?" "Do you regret that you wanted to possess that which can never be yours?" "Be quiet!" "Understand that I find no pleasure... in my possessions or my constructions, if you are not among them." "From now on I will support that young scholar... and poet personally." "Forgive me." "What is it?" "What do you want, Klara?" "A theatre director wants to have a word with you." "With me?" "Yes." "A theatre director?" "He said so." "His name is Rinnlingen." "All right." "Let him in, will you?" "Klara..." "Just a moment, all right?" "Some even said that you were dead." "Your work is a masterpiece, dear Sir." "But..." "What does a variety show theatre want with my tragedy, Narcissus?" "Of course, this excellent work should be altered a bit." "But the translation has mostly done so already." "My composer, who discovered the play, has already musicalized a scene." " Musicalized?" " Yes." "And the songs are so good that they will surely... become popular hits." "You shan't blind me, blind not..." "No, thou shall not blind me." "Thou shalt not blind my eyes... whoever thou art." "I solemnly swear, by this hand!" "Thou shalt not blind me!" "Thou shalt never blind me." "You must sign here." "We can also give you an advance right away." "Accept it!" "Sign it." "Here." "Narcissus..." "Narcissus..." "It's you..." "It's you..." "Or am I mistaken?" "Echo knows my name." "Revered one, I'll respect you for ever." "I do not need your respect." "I'd rather you looked me in the face." "Come with me, dance with me." "Love me as I love you." "Oh, why all this pondering?" "Love me to your heart's desire." "Come, Ilse." "Proceed!" "Proceed!" "Terrible." "You beguile me with your honeyed phrases." "But in your heart the poison rages." "O what anguish!" "O what pain!" "Because I gave my heart to a paltry human!" "Adjust the tone." " What's with the pause?" " Proceed!" "Proceed!" "Music." "Venus." "Great goddess." "Every mortal, every god... knows you." "Did you hear the stamping?" " Knocking?" " I heard it." "And no stamping?" "No, no stamping." "God damn it!" "Is everyone in this house sleeping?" " I wasn't sleeping." " Really?" " I wish I could." " Really?" "I've been insomniac for twenty years now." "Really?" "Do you all think that I'm an idiot?" "Huh?" "!" "I heard with my own ears, that someone jumped out the window, and ran into the woods." "It was the colt." "He's escaped from the hurdle in the afternoon." "He's rambling in the garden." "He wants to go back to his ma." "Maybe we could trace him in the morrow." "What kind of colt... jumps out of windows?" " Pull it." " No." "Why not?" "We'll take it in." " It's stuck down." " No, it isn't." "When I was a child, we had a house like this." "I reached the shore early." "What a distance..." "Some day we could travel across it." "You always search for distance:" "the stars, the sea..." "What are you running from?" "It's just that I don't have any money at the moment." "But the Viennese public is looking forward... to seeing Narcissus and Echo." "The fact is, Herr Tóth... that we're withdrawing Narcissus from the programme." "Withdrawing Narcissus from the programme?" "I don't understand." "The public is no longer interested in a tale of knights and harlots." "Now people need enthusiasm, patriotism and military zeal, not decadent extravagance." "You too should listen." "A bearded Serb will inflame people more... than a lot of female legs." "I have sold my talent... to your shady booth." "I will sue you!" "Sue me?" "You should sue world-history." "Let's travel even further South." "YEARS OF PARTING" "Where no ships, packed full with engines of war, will remind us of Europe." "Even further South is almost North." " Take it." " What is it?" " A present." " What for?" "In case we should return." "Someone back there... might remember us." "Come now." "Let's go even further South." "Even further." "The statements of income, Sir." "They are not very pleasant." "I must say, the estate has deteriorated in the chaos of war over the last four years... which you were fortunate enough to spend on another continent." "Thank you." "You'll enjoy this." "Havana..." "They've become a rarity lately." "Your administrants' accounts are contradictory, and the profits are declining." "Elise." "Here's last year's mail." "There were arsons, too." "The processing... of the mines has almost ceased of late, due to the known events." "My dear, excuse me for disturbing you." "What would you say... if we sold the estate and returned to America?" "To the North this time." "May I make an observation, Sir?" "Given the present instability, an estate is worth more than money." "Even if there's no telling how the situation will develop." "And purchasers are very cautious." "No one wants to possess latifundia nowadays." "And this complicates things." "Will you undertake the liquidation?" "Are you determined to sell it, Sir?" "I'll give you a week, or I'll find someone else to do it." "What about the castle's furnishings and personal effects, Sir?" "Auction them." "On second thoughts..." "do not sell the family portraits." "My dear, I'm sorry to disturb you again." "Is there anything you wish to keep?" "Max..." "I'm leaving for Budapest." "And what about the Argentine Consul's ball?" "Are you together?" "Dear Baroness!" "So you're alive!" "Yes, Ilse." "It's been two years since we last heard from you." "The mail was congested in the last years of the war." "Laci!" "Laci, for Heaven's sake, look at me." "Ilse is already here, she has come to bid me... farewell." "I've awaited you impatiently." "I feared you wouldn't keep your promise." "How could I have promised anything?" "We returned to Europe only a week ago." "Someone was here, I don't know who." "And said that you would come to see me." "Why have you abandoned me?" "Why...?" "You abandoned me for good." "You're tired, you should sleep." "I rushed to you as soon as I got your letters." "Where are you?" "Where have you gone?" "Why did you leave me?" " Laci, I'm here." " You are?" "I'm here with you, I've always been with you." "I can't hold it back," "I have to stool." "Can you get up?" "Hurry up." "Quickly, dump it." "Klara..." "Where can I...?" "Over there." "Another one." "Lidi..." "Lidi." "Come, help me." "No, no..." "Go out, Ilse." "Turn around." "What are you looking at?" "Do you still love me?" "Erzsike..." "Come, lie with me." "Stay put, Laci." "You can't even walk and yet you want to make love." "We've loved each other all our lives, yet we've never possessed each other." "I'm rotting away." "I'm falling apart... and I haven't reached perfection." "The world hasn't... even seen my tragedy, Narcissus." "At least my... genes should travel..." "Go where I could never travel." "What you want is sheer madness." "Sleep now." "Sleep." "Are you afraid of contamination?" "My disease is no longer infectious." "As a doctor, I can state this ex cathedra." "The only medicine for my present acute condition is that I should empty my seed into a woman." "You wouldn't be infected, and I would be purified." " There is no such cure." " Ilse..." "I was searching for you in Ilse, too." "And now I expect your embrace, from the world's most beautiful woman." "Perhaps that could resurrect me." "Another one." "Ilse... did you really sleep with him?" "You haven't caught his disease?" "I've no desire for this, but he is entreating." "I am afraid." "I fear he might die under me." "It's strange." "You are not crying, Baroness." "My love is fire, not water." "No one can desert me so easily." "Let's go." "Excuse me..." "Who was that lady?" "Baroness Zedlitz, the patroness of László Tóth." "Why blanch over it?" "My great love... was terribly egoistic." "Just as egoistic, as the hero of his poetic tragedy," "Narcissus." "Who was ill of mortal self-loving." "No one else could have written it... but him." "I remember... he started composing it back in Sárospatak." "What is it about?" "It's about the young Narcissus, who was in love with himself." "Though he is a man, his beauty is also feminine." "Inamorato and unreachable inamorata rolled in one." "His adviser was Tiresias, who was born as a woman, but transformed into a man." "That's how we were to him." "Klara, Agnes and the others." "We went after him as lads ineffectually." "Why ineffectually?" "Because..." "Narcissus withers away." "He dies of unfulfilled love." "And that's how it happened." "He knew it himself." "Nothing remains of him but this tragedy." "Epigrams, some treaties, scientific notes." "I drank... pain, poison and sorrow." "There..." "I saw the lovely form." "I beseech her," "There I saw the lovely form." "I beseech her," "I weep, I beg," "I entreat," "I threaten," "I urge her." "She is silent, she does not hear me," "does not understand me." "For she is dumb, deaf..." "Empty, non-existent and cold." "Because it's only water-reflection... it's empty... and has no existence." "Take it to the garage." " This is the inner yard." " How arresting." "What can that be?" "I don't know, it's enwrapped." "Last week you brought a cupboard." "But that was a cupboard." "And this?" "Have a look at this coach." "That's the card!" "The frame was made in the eighteenth century." "But I have a buyer for it." "Who bought it?" "What matter, if it's been sold?" "Who bought it?" "Dear Madam..." "The Baron wanted a discreet, private auction." "Is everything sold?" "Then let's buy this carriage." "Elise, why would you need an old vehicle like this?" "Why... why are we aristocrats, and why are we adopting their habits?" " And this?" " Baron Reithauser bought it." "Baron Reithauser" "He received this formality after the war." " Then let's buy this drag." " It's a good bargain." " That's not for sale." " You'll take it to America?" "I don't know yet." "Why shouldn't he?" "Everyone has expensive things, family heirlooms, that they're averse to parting with." "The Baron... has something rather difficult to move." "May I have a dance, Baroness?" "With pleasure, but let's get inside first." "Is that man some local Baron or Count too?" "He's Mr. Reithausen, who tried to work off his debts through the... bulk manufacture of war-devices, but he's now dealing with sewing-machines." "So now he tries to work them off in peace." "A Viennese doctor says that to do that, he would need a lot of profit." "This Doctor has analysed everyone except sewing-women." "You say arresting things, Baroness." "You're a real Baroness, right?" "Europe is fascinating." "You see, I inherited millions, yet I'm not a Baron." "Nowadays you could easily buy yourself the title of Baron." "You know what..." "I think we're talking about a really serious issue here." "Lately I've been thinking a lot about moving to Europe permanently." "You want to move to Europe?" "Why are you surprised?" "Europe is magnificent." "My husband and I decided to emigrate to America for good." "Now that's a surprise!" "I must say, I can hardly believe it." "Are you kidding me?" "It's the truth." "Please, give me a chance to see you." "I would surely talk you out of it." "Then you'd better see my husband." "He's right here." "Max." "I want you to meet an American war correspondent, who also happens to be a millionaire." " My name's Harold Scott." " Pleased to meet you." "You know, it's prohibition now in America." "Do you think one can live in a country, that banned the drinking of whisky?" "Your whatever is real fine." "Will you drink with me?" "No, not yet, excuse me." "Maybe inside." "Okay." "There's the telephone." "I don't understand." "I don't understand." "What?" "I don't understand." "I don't care much for the auction." "I didn't ask you to come here for that." "These things..." "I have parted with them." "Cupboards, furniture everywhere..." "A lot of paintings, at least a hundred years old." "They'll just find another place." "That is all." "I assure you I didn't come here for the furniture, either." "I've heard many good things and many bad things about you." "That a lot about you." "But the play I gave you has been thrashed about a lot." "The author is long dead." "I'd like you to make this work known to the world." "You must understand..." "It is of the utmost importance to me." "You don't have to ask me anything, Baroness." "This play happens to be suitable to present the results... of our experiments in a coherent narrative, which is also understandable for simpler people, too." "As for my methods..." "One can reach his goals in each era, or even each day with other expedients." "I only care for the play." "Naturally, it is important for me too, if I can present it adequate to my conceptions." "So you stand by your own approach." "I stand by the adequate approach." "The era of the simple people has come now." "People will have to breathe together." "And it is my belief... that they'd better try to do so in terms of art or religion, not politics." "Otherwise, I would only need a room, so we could start doing something." "Do you think, that this one would be suitable?" "Why not?" "It's perfect." "Then you'll have to wait." "We'll re-arrange the guests, lead them out to the other room, and the space will be free." "Telephone, Baroness." " It's for you." " Thank you." "I see." "I see." "I see." "Baroness, you promised me a dance before." " And you won't forget it?" " No." "But you've already left an entire wreath of ladies behind." "What do you mean?" "The president of the ODI, for example." " What is ODI?" " Open Door International." "Women's International Alliance." "It has a worldwide network." "You've never heard of it?" " There was a war, Baroness." " Yes." "The lady is also the head of several other... women's organisations, and an industrial artist." "I see." "Max, please take care of the guests." "Look, Dr. Jakse Knapitsch is sitting alone, with whom you were in correspondence... about South-America and the Indian women." " I hardly recognized you." " I understand that your wife is of Hungarian descent." "I did something very interesting:" "I designed Hungarian-style bridge-cards, wherein the conventional King, Jack and Queen are dressed... in beautiful Hungarian national dresses." "An original idea." "Allow me to introduce Dr. Jakse Knapitsch." "Madame" "Alphonse Struve, corvette captain." "And the doctoress is a versed voyager and industrial artist." "I see." "And what kind of uniform is that?" "I don't know for sure." "A lot of new countries have formed in Europe during our long absence." "As a matter of fact... with your collaboration." "He must be a representative of some Balkan empire." "But which one?" "This is too much." " Hildegard." " Yes?" "What's wrong?" "You can dance with everyone, except that orang-utan." "Don't watch the Other." "It is also you." "You act, and the command disappears from you." "You win, for the Other is also you." "You don't feel embarrassed, because the act outstrips you." "The shame of the world is hovering ahead of you, and you step beyond it." "Your will follows you with allegiance, like a dog." "The Other is following you." "The Other is your determination." "I hope we won't go to the station in this old drag." "Be calm, please." "Three cars are ready to go." " I hope you're not cold, dear." " No, but..." "The Baron has decided to set the drag ablaze, but he wants a last ride." "Max..." "Max!" "What are you doing?" " You'll infuriate the horses." " Never mind that." "I want to go along." "As you wish." "Mind your skirt." "Where did you vanish to?" "Did you fly up amongst the stars?" "Or were you in America, perhaps?" "Our guests missed you." "Don't hit the horses!" "Where are your cuff-links?" "You really are a sight." "My money is in good hands." "I've found a reliable company to ship us over." "This is all very good news." "But your face is moody and ferocious." " You're not being frank with me." " I had a bad dream." "Why aren't you frank?" "You've had a dream?" "You never dream." "Did you sleep at all last night?" "What?" "What kind of ship is it?" "Don't you carry me across the ocean in some small barque." "It's a big ship, Elise." "It also has a swimming pool." "How original." "Neither of us can swim, but the children will like it." "Perhaps after all these sea voyages we'll learn to swim too." "Could be." "Elise... that ship sails out in a week from Le Havre." "Are you starting again?" "Let's not go to Germany, Elise." "Not Germany, but to a town where the professor will stage Narcissus." "Where Laci will get the posthumous recognition that he earned in his life." "Let's not go to Germany, Elise." "Stop whipping the horses!" "Stop it!" "Stop it!" "Stop the carriage!" "Stop it!" "I want to get off!" "You've gone mad, Max." "Look, you've wounded her neck." "That is an old wound." "Have you still got the ointment?" "We used to keep it under the seat." "It's here." "The goose-feather is there, too." "This is how Erzsébet Lónyai made her exit from the world, with whom diplomats and aristocrats... fell in love, from Madrid to Moscow, from Copenhagen to Constantinople." "That's how she died." "If they even existed at all." "Was it an accident, or did the jealous husband do it?" "It never transpired." "No one heard the woman scream." "This is how Erzsébet Lónyai made her exit from the world." "Was it an accident, or did the jealous husband do it... it never transpired... how Erzsébet Lónyai made her exit... from the world." "The Baron built a statue for her." "With one word on its pedestal, how her loved ones called her:" "Psyche" "He built a statue in the garden of Kramow, an accurate portrait of Elise with wings." "The husband never healed from his sorrow, never married again." "He built a statue in the garden of Kramow, an accurate portrait of Elise with wings." "With one word on its pedestal, how her loved ones called her:" "Psyche" "And he died three years after his loved one departed." "This is how she made her exit..." "If they even existed at all." "Ripped by gogbad, translated by malenkij Proofed by MENiSCUS"