"Can it!" "Otherwise you can quit!" "Offside!" "That was a clear offside" "A blindman could have seen, come on" "You're falling asleep on the job" "He's crazy!" "A real nut!" "Can I have this paper?" "Sure you can!" "What streetcar do I take for town?" "There's only the one." "Give me a good seat!" "Plenty of leg room?" "Has the feature started yet?" "So you want a room?" "First floor, number 15" "Saturdays..." "the baggage boy is off" "Off, eh?" "Where do I sign in?" "That'll keep till tomorrow" "The room's facing the street..." "but it's not really noisy" "The last streetcar's round about 12" "The phone isn't working" "5,7,9 pm RED LINE 700" "Good night!" "Good night!" "Anything you'd like?" "No!" "Got a paper?" "A paper?" "I could give you a crime story" ""Go wash up..." "Stop acting like a bitch"" ""We gotta go"" ""I want to see the cathedral"" "Is it yesterday's?" "No, it's today's." "With the football results?" "Yes, naturally." "Press Q4" "Choose one yourself" "Any other numbers?" "What's so interesting in those pictures?" "I might be in one myself" "A national forward had leased the joint" "Then he joined a non-league team in America" "After one year he vanished." "Nobody ever heard of him again" "His wife hired an American detective agency" "All they found out was... that he was last seen living in a trailer in Tucson, Arizona" "In a trailer?" "In Tucson, Arizona!" "We once did a tour of the States" "How about somewhere else?" "Listen to that music!" "We need a shilling" "Spent my last one on the juke-box!" "It's no go without money" "Hey, that was a quarter!" "Got a light?" "Where can I get a paper?" "At the station!" "I gotta leave in any case" "Going to the movies with my girlfriend" "See you" "Prater!" "Gimme a dime for the streetcar!" "Plenty of leg room again?" "Yeah, plenty of leg room!" "I haven't any change" "Nothing bigger either?" "What's the movie about?" "It's about a gang of counterfeiters" "I once saw a movie where they forged bills... with 10 dollars on one side and 20 on the other." "Do you know that film?" "But you've seen this one?" "No, I haven't" ""Out of his head... there flew a bat and went smack against the wall"" "Come on!" "The shower woke me up" "Sorry" "I'm glad I did wake up" "I had a stupid dream, a dream I often have" "Looks like ants in the teapot!" "Ants?" "Did you dream about ants?" "Every time I dream, I'm wearing a dress made of money" "When I sit down it crackles" "I like his voice" "I look down and notice... it's crackling because it's burning" "Freddy grabs the extinguisher and runs towards me" "It used to be a flame-thrower in my dreams" "But today it spurted water" "I was so surprised I woke up" "Then I heard the shower" "Who is this Freddy guy?" "Someone I know" "It's Monday, I've got some shopping to do" "Bring me a paper back!" "Did the planes wake you up?" "I woke up myself" "The last plane is the mail-plane.." "after midnight" "The first Boeing leaves for Rio at 6" "Where to?" "To Rio!" "Pan Am to Rio de Janeiro!" "Once I had a room looking out onto a blind alley" "Didn't even hear any cars!" "That sort of disturbed me, too" "Yeah, that's not so good either But I think an airport..." "My name's Gloria" "G-L-O-R-I-A, Gloria" "What's yours?" "Gloria..." "I'm a professional goal-keeper" "That explains the bruises" "I'd have said you were an ice-hockey player, or a boxer" "I'm Joseph Bloch" "I'm called Joseph Bloch" "B-L-O-C-H" "I once went to a football match with George" "It was raining" "I almost got hit by a flying beer bottle" "The day Sharon Tate was murdered" "Afterwards I had... an Irish coffee in the "Stefanskeller"" "Is George an Englishman?" "No." "We just call him that." "Is the "Stefanskeller" a restaurant?" "A bar, a discotheque!" "I met George at the movies" "He complained because he had a seat behind a pillar" "So I gave him one of those with leg-room" "A guy I know, played as a back, a guy in the team, name of Sturm... once put the ball through his own goal" "The ball went off his foot into the far corner while I was diving the other way" "I was in the right corner, the ball in the left" "I mean the left as I saw it or maybe it was the right" "Anyway, I was in the wrong corner... in a puddle" "Did you give poor old Sturm hell?" "The back, you mean?" "No, the game was lost already" "Like some more tea?" "Sure!" "Are you a good goalie?" "Have you got another job?" "That wasn't a jet" "No, a propeller job, a charter plane" "Haven't you done much flying?" "We did a friendly tour of South America last year" "Then we were in the States" "What?" "..." "Didn't you say something?" "Me?" "No... it must have been that noise" "This is from Bill in St Louis" "I collect postcards" "He gave me a quarter" "But I inserted it into a cigarette machine by mistake" "In Frankfurt" "Are you going to work today?" "Do you have to train?" "We thought maybe you wouldn't be back" "That'll be 300 shillings" "This isn't a doss-house" "Beat it with that light!" "Get out of here!" "The gentleman has sworn a complaint Show me your papers!" "He knocked the torch out of my hand It could have been broken" "You've been around a lot" "I didn't really mean that with the torch" "A sort of reflex" ""OK, OK cut that out"" "Is this a letter?" "Or what?" "Is this your money?" "Gotta hole in my pocket!" "American coins" "Did you lose them?" "I was in the States quite recently" "Staying with relatives?" "No, professionally, as a football player" "That's why the coins are so dirty" "They were used for the toss-up and fell in the mud" "How do you mean?" "Heads or tails...to see who plays against the wind" "Terminus!" "Everybody off, please!" "Good evening!" "Have you got a room free?" "Yes, there's one left" "I'll show you the way" "The key's upstairs" "A woman I know, Hertha Gabler, runs an inn near here somewhere" "Do you know her?" "She's leased the Border Inn, near the customs post" "I almost took a job with her." "Now my step-sister works there" "But you have to walk back at night" "What's that noise?" "Your room's right above the bowling alley" "A crippled school kid's been missing for three days" "They think it's murder" "Maybe he's lost his way" "Who ever loses his way these days?" "What's going on?" "They're hoovering upstairs" ""Murder of a Cinema Cashier"" ""Mute Schoolboy Missing for Two Days"" "The boy's not crippled, he can't talk" "That's worse." "I wouldn't like to be mute" "Is there a TV set on somewhere?" "The innkeeper's mother... sits in the next room all day" "She watches programmes for shift workers" "Deaf as a doorpost, but still wants it on" "How do I get to the Border Inn?" "Go along this road... and you'll find the inn where the asphalt road... turns around, back towards town... on the junction where the road becomes unpaved" "The border crossing is closed" "The road leads direct to the inn" "2 shirts, 2 underpants, 2 pairs of socks Collar size 40" "Have you got any shirts with high collars that don't slip below the coat collar?" "Those, I think" "Need any handkerchiefs, neckties... or a cardigan?" "No, thanks." "Could you mend this by tomorrow?" "The pocket lining!" "Is Mrs Gabler at home?" "She's still sleeping" "A beer, please" "A bottle?" "Do you know her?" "I used to" "Clean your shoes and shut the door!" "Mrs Gabler's daughter, four years old" "A man came here a few days ago" "He said he'd been sent to dig out a well" "She tried to make him leave" "But he wouldn't go until she'd shown him the cellar" "She had to send for help to get rid of him" "The kid's been scared ever since" "Apricot brandy" "Is the missing boy back?" "Not yet" "It's been three days now" "The nights are cold" "He's well wrapped up" "Yes." "He was." "He can't have got far" "No, he can't be very far away" "Those horns are from a stag that strayed into the minefield" "Has the furniture arrived?" "Bloch?" "I haven't seen you for ages" "I saw your name in the paper not so long ago" "I've taken a few days off Been banned to play" "Like it here?" "I arrived late last night and took a room in the village inn" "I didn't want to disturb you so late at night" "I don't mean the locality..." "I mean my place here" "Do you rent rooms, too?" "I don't know... whether I should" "Alfons!" "" " The son of the estate owner" "Don't you want to play in the kitchen?" "Run along!" "Don't look at me like that" "I'm glad I don't have to make up in the morning" "I get dolled up at night" "I can't be too glamorous for the village boys" "I put on huge false eyelashes and green eye shadow" "And what a mouth!" "You'd never know me" "I would, by your blue eyes" "My furniture!" "Bloch, give me a hand!" "I've got to get the stuff in!" "Will you stay for dinner?" "No thanks!" "I'll drop in later" "Is there only one room for all the classes?" "There's just one room... for all the classes" "No wonder the kids can't even talk properly when they leave school." "They can't say one proper sentence They just talk together in monosyllables" "Never without being asked!" "They just learn all by heart and reel it off They can't form a sentence of their own" "In fact, they're all more or less speech-handicapped" "What's the hurry?" "The movies!" "You gotta sign the register form" "The form's in your room" "I thought you were having breakfast" "Come on in!" "You can make the bed" "There was nothing... to stop you coming in" "I was mistaken" "I must have mistaken the bus-driver for you" "I thought you were having breakfast" "I didn't mean that" "What did you say?" "There's too much furniture here" "That's right" "And we haven't got enough staff" "I only mistook you because I was so tired" "No, the rooms are too full of closets, dressers and chests" "You can barely move around here Even talking is hard work" "What do you mean?" "I didn't want to drive you away!" "Do you need the lamp to find your way home?" "I've got a friend... he's a cabinet maker" "Are there any double doors here?" "Nothing's ever been stolen here" "And what's that?" "I once saw a movie where a thief was trapped between double doors" "There are no thieves around here!" "There's a funny smell outside" "One of the neighbours just died" "Does the waitress wear health sandals?" "That must be the bicycle" "What bicycle?" "The dumb kid's!" "If those shoes came in different colors they'd become fashionable" "Did the well-digger come back?" "He couldn't even shout for help" "Who?" "The boy!" "Do the border guards on the other side have field glasses?" "Sometimes there's a reflection" "You can't see the watchtowers from here" "I know that too" "How much is your rent here?" "The estate-owner's son is a friend of mine" "What does he do?" "Alfons!" "He's a perfectionist" "A few months ago he bought a sports car" "He drove in a rally and came in third" "Last night I took his car key's away" "He's a hard drinker" "It was too far to walk home for him" "He manages the estate" "His father... is in a sanitorium with T.B." "What number do you start with when you count?" "I've got into the habit of starting with 2" "I never count the ones anymore" "I was almost run over crossing the road today" "I only looked at the second car" "One egg, one roll and one coffee in the morning... aren't enough for me" "It's as though I hadn't started to eat... till the second egg" "No comment!" "You keep getting up, sitting down... getting up, sitting down again... grabbing this, letting it go again..." "What's biting you anyway?" "Should I go see the baby?" "No!" "The kid's had a bad dream." "She'll come looking for some pie soon" "What are you doing under the bed?" "Those flies under my pillow!" "Hold the apple with both hands!" "Go and ride your bike!" "Flies?" "The kids from across the road are sleeping here till the corpse is buried" "At night they shoot rubber bands at the wall to kill flies" "The ones they hit... they stick under their pillows" "Service!" "How can I help it?" "Now we're alone" "What about the kid?" "She doesn't count" "How do country people do their lovin'?" "Ride your bike outside!" "No" "Day before yesterday I saw a woman on the bus... with a spot of blood on her dress at the back" "It all happened so fast." "We had to wake the kid so she could run to the village" "But she couldn't tell the priest what had happened... and they didn't ring the bells" "Come in and have a bite to eat" "One of our children was killed by pumpkins" "He just gave a snort and passed away" "Nirosta dish washer - 2 to 3000 shillings" "Ice cream machine 10 to 12000 shillings" "What about the juke-box?" "I only rent it" "Is that worth anything?" "There are lots of stones like that around here" "Whenever I see a thing I'm supposed to sequester and know nothing about... a washing machine, for example, I always ask about the price" "If I see the article again, like this washing machine..." "I never remember what it looks like, those buttons you press, for example... but always how much it cost when I first saw it... like this washing machine here" "I always note the price exactly." "That's how I remember things" "What if it isn't worth anything?" "In my profession I don't deal with worthless things" "And that's worth nothing?" "Not a cent!" "Not one red cent?" "No sir!" "Dream's over, then!" "I place more trust in male hairdressers" "Did Charlie ring up?" "No, but I met Frank in the street just now, in his best uniform" "With terrific pointed shoes" "Who is Charlie?" "He's a soldier, too" "And Frank?" "..." "None of my business of course!" "Why are you asking for, then?" "You ask me something, then!" "Are you a detective or something?" "No, a sportsman" "That makes me a winner!" "A boxer?" "I'm a goalie!" "Did you hear?" "He's a goalie!" "What's funny about that?" "When we saw you last night, we bet whether you were a boxer, or..." "Or?" "A foreign legionaire!" "A football player with bandy legs" "We always stand behind the goal and make the goalie nervous" "Our goalie split his lip in a tumble in front of the goal" "Now he lisps" "You wouldn't make me nervous so easy" "Mrs Gabler's gone to the castle" "About her lease!" "It looks like a storm coming up" "Don't talk to him" "He can't talk when he's got things to do" "Has he strewn the ashes on the bed again instead of in the brook?" "Isn't he... running after the goats anymore?" "I'll pay this evening" "He had to leave the farm, and then they found him in the woods... hanging by his foot from a branch, with his head in an anthill" "Is this house occupied?" "No entrance to the private rooms!" "The darkness in the woods drove him crazy" "They've found the mute boy's body A customs office found him drifting in the stream" "Yesterday I found 10 cents under your bed" "You can keep it" "It's too late for breakfast" "I'll do without" "Not that I don't like it here On the contrary!" "I've got to go now" "Am I stopping you?" "That serves you right!" "What serves him right?" "Mr Schneider please!" "Can't you speak up?" "Training camp!" "When?" "I'll repeat that." "We are proud of you and little Andrew." "Stop." "The happy grandparents!" "I got cut off" "Get me another line!" "I can't get through myself" "Do you know what a pre-selection number is?" "Yes." "Don't you have any outside line?" "No" "Have you ever got through to the Red Cross or the police?" "Want me to give you the number of the information exchange?" "Did you hear they found the schoolboy?" "The cop who found him thought that he saw a floating matress at first" "Have you ever been to a play?" "Once, when I was at school." "But it was the film of a play" "Last night I dreamt I was supposed to act in a play" "I was supposed to do something with a lot of fire extinguishers" "And keep on shouting out the price" "What then?" "Over!" "You don't look the scared type at all" "Let's go" "Gimme a hot-dog" "Any movies around here?" "There's one on tonight in Windisch" "How do I get there?" "You can come with me" "What's the movie called?" ""72 Hours to Go"" "I've seen that one" "Right at the back!" "And a beer!" "It's your turn to stand the drinks" "Drinks on me for everyone around the table" "There might be another bill inside" "So what, it's my money!" "Come on!" "What do you want with that?" "Nothing!" "I was just holding it in my hand" "It doesn't mean a thing" "Where are you going?" "It's raining." "I've got to get the washing in" "It isn't." "It's just dripping from the trees" "You've lost a shirt" "It's only a foot-rag" "If your jersey was striped it would look like a football jersey" "I bought it in a boutique." "What's wrong with it?" "Nothing!" "I think it's pretty" "Are those false eyelashes?" "You find fault with everything" "I didn't mean it like that..." "You take everything the wrong way If I said you looked like a painted cow, you'd believe me" "What d'you mean, a painted cow?" "It was just an expression" "But you must have had some reason" "Finished your accounts?" "It's all part of it ...running an inn" "Like a sandwich?" "I don't mind I'm not mad hungry" "What did you tear Saturday off for?" "It's only Friday" "It's well into the morning" "It's half past two" "I've already torn it off for tomorrow" "In that case we won't get up till Sunday" "Can I have a knife, too?" "There's one there" "What are you doing?" "The kid's crying" "Be careful!" "It's dripping" "That's exactly what I want" "The kid needs a light" "If I leave the door open it's too loud for her" "I wish she were a bit older" "I'd have more time to look after the business" "I keep meeting these old women dressed in black wherever I go" "Has the estate-owner's son made you an offer of marriage yet?" "He's as good as married" "I didn't mean it that way" "You can make a person really mad" "You as well" "You drive me crazy" "You're always making the place untidy" "You leave the drawer open You throw your coat on the floor... tear off the calendar without reason, why did you turn on the radio?" "You'll be dropping the ashtray next" "I've got a feeling I have to let it go" "Could you lend me an umbrella to go home?" "I'm afraid I relied too much on the weather reports" "And they forecast a rainless night" "But the bubbles on the puddles show that it's going to rain for quite some time" "I'll go with you" "The umbrella's hanging under the work-pants" "Your jacket" "I'll bring the umbrella back tomorrow --Goodnight!" "Good night!" "I almost trod on a hedgehog" "How did you see that?" "That's part of my job!" "Whenever you hear or see something, you have to be able to identify it" "Even something that's right on the edge of your vision" "Even the colour, although colour can only be registered in the center of the iris" "We haven't got much to do around here." "Since they mined the frontier the smuggling's stopped" "Tension gets less, and you lose your sense of concentration" "If anything does happen you don't even react" "If someone crosses your path you don't know how to tackle him" "You're in the wrong place, or if you're in the right spot you rely on your buddy grabbing him" "Your buddy thinks exactly the same thing and the guy escapes" "When you catch up with a guy..." "it's important to look him in the eye" "That tells you which way he's going to bolt for it" "You gotta watch his legs, too" "The leg he's standing on is the way he's going to scram" "But if he's trying to fool you... he'll shift his weight to another leg..." "and that gives you time to grab him" "Oh well." "There are no rules really." "We're at a disadvantage." "The other guy's watching you too, guessing your reactions" "All you can do is react" "If he's gonna bolt, he'll change direction... and that leaves you standing on the wrong leg" "I'm saving up to buy my own appartment I was born right here" "How about a shot of something?" "No, thanks." "It's stopped raining anyway" "See ya, then." "Best of luck!" "The mail plane." "Half past three!" "It's raining, and my umbrella's broken, too" "No more bowling tonight?" "There's a tourist party sleeping on camp-beds in the bowling alley" "But there's still a bed left for you" "Of course" "So you won't be coming upstairs with me?" "No!" "Too tired, eh?" "That, too!" "..." "Open up!" "Excuse me, this breakfast isn't for you" "Sorry!" "I'll have breakfast downstairs" "Would you mind having it next door?" "The tourist party hasn't left yet" "Do they read a lot of newspapers around here?" "Mainly magazines!" "The guests read the papers" "He's bound to have grown a moustache by now" "And dyed his hair" "They've released the gypsy" "The mute school-kid died accidentally" ""Hot Clue in the Gloria T. Mystery"" ""Death of Mute Schoolboy Cleared Up"" "Should keep the ball low in this wind" "What teams are they?" "I'm a stranger, too." "I don't know what's what" "I'm a salesman, just passing through" "The players do too much shouting" "A good game is played silently" "They haven't got a trainer who can give them directions" "You gotta take a snap decision at the kick off" "Once in the stadium I saw... a player break his leg." "How it cracked!" "And I once played against a barefoot team" "The smack there was... when their feet struck the ball Have you ever tried keeping your eye... on the goalie and not on the forwards?" "It's very hard to tear your eyes away from the ball" "It takes a terrific effort" "You see the goalie running backwards and forwards... bending over left and right... shouting at the backs" "Usually you only notice him when the ball is shot at the goal" "It's funny... watching the goalie running around without the ball" "Your eyes get drawn back to the forwards" "It's as if you were cross-eyed" "When a man walks up to a door... you don't keep your eye on the handle" "Your head aches" "You can't even breathe right" "You get used to it." "But it's ridiculous" "A penalty!" "The goalie wonders what corner... the guys going to shoot into" "If he knows the kicker, he knows which corner it will be" "But maybe the penalty kicker's thinking that too" "So the goalie thinks the ball will go into the other corner" "But what if the penalty kicker thinks like the goalie... and crashes the ball into the usual corner?" "And so on, and so on"