"Translated by PxAsL + corrected by Huysmans" "So why all these words, promises, compliment?" "I never asked for fidelity, so why did you swore, then lie, like so many people do ?" "So many people who .." "So many people who only practice approximate love, like a tumbling and leave so easily when difficulties come, when you have to get started" "Centuries of love songs, poetry, literature no longer helps me to understand my heart or yours." "This whole heap of blurring, contradiction... of interference, wounded me." "By leaving me so roughly, you destroyed... by pushing youself so flatly you erased months of passionate love that we lived." "You know, I missed that long time from May to November." "There was no summer or autumn." "You were not." "You do not exist." "Actually, you do not exist so much that I do not even know why I would write to you." "Meet Julie again" "There is still Odile Constant" "HowI wouldliketoseeheragain." "But where can we find Odile ?" "My mother said, it is always possible, when you really want something to find an old friend, even though ... she lives at the end of the world" "Julie and Me." " It's no big thing, please." " What did you say?" " It's no big deal." " How dare?" " Ma ..." " Now, and then enough." "That's too much, I won't stay here and listen to you reviling me." "That's it." "I'm sorry, it's not butchery "Saint gras"." "No problem, ma'am." "Look, Look, Look." "How nice it is to stroll in the woods during spring and to explore the Canadian forest awakening," "The fine tintling of small bells from the Linnaea..." "And other natural wonders." "Between the ferns, we can watch restful Hesperis matronalis ... accompanied by the hikers, who ... conveniently walk around." "And what about ... the al-Papucskosbor, beautiful flowers, whose shape nicknames it "queen of the woods"." "Also known as ..." "Lady's slipper and in France, Venuse's splipper" "Gotcha." "I've got lilac on the other side, did you notice?" " I'm Juliette." " Yeah, I'm Peter Pan." "Would you like some iris ?" " Or Grape Hyacinth?" " Julie!" "So, you know who I am." "Thus, it is not a random attack." "You made plans to steal my flowers." "But how ...?" "You?" " But, but ..." " But .. yeah." " Your hair ..." " Yes." "They're beautiful." "I could not find Florists." " I'm really sorry ..." " No, that's my fault." " Could have been ..." " I lost my head." "I won't do that again." " Me neither." "Let's forget about it." " I didn't want to disturb you, I poped around..." " Poped around?" " Hm... yes..." " What did you say ?" " By chance, I poped around..." " By chance?" " Yes... chance, not an absence of cause, but a contrast between an unimportant cause and its effects, who seem very important." " But if I disturb you, tell me ..." " No." "If we wait for the perfect time to visit, we never see each other again..." "I'm afraid you're right !" "The proof is that we didn't see each other since..." " A very long time." " Yes." " Maybe more." " For years." " If the time is inappropriate, tell me..." " You're not disturbing." "I'm glad." "Really." "You want a drink?" "Iced tea, coffee, herbal tea, juice..." "Sandwich?" "No thanks, I'm not hungry" "Spinach quiche?" "Hum..." "You do not like quiche." " I like it, but..." "Are spinach a problem?" "I've got one in the oven." " That's it?" " Yeah, thanks." "Good." "Funny, this house ..." " Come on." " It hasn't changed at all." "Every object is at the same place that it was in the past." "That's probably true." "Except maybe ... the curtain." "Took them off." "I got a quarrel with the owner about it who did not like this slur to the wholeness of the scenery" " What do you mean by the owner?" " My mother." "Now I live here." "I work nearby, and I rent my mother's house." "I thought it makes the curtain removable already." "I've never understood why we had curtains in the country !" "Maybe so a deer can not see our panties." " This is funny." " Yes" "So ..." "Tell me." "Who's the new you ?" "What are you doing?" "Nothing." "I'm getting old." "That's right." "It fits me." " And your parents?" " They're allright." "They get old too, but faster than I do." " And your brother?" " He's all right." "Married and I think happy." " You think?" " I guess, yes." "I do not really know him, we don't talk much." "What is happiness?" "He seems happy." "And you?" "Me ...?" "I'm thirsty." "And in addition to the aging what are you doing there?" " Nothing." " Nothing?" "Well ... almost nothing." "Like a little not much." "What?" "Radio." "There is a small show broadcast in the morning." "How daring." "You wake up early to do your "nothing"." "What is it about?" "Three times a week I try to demonstrate a hypothesis that... is discussed, but unfortunately quite useless, that in life, it's better if you stay in your bed." "I would have prefered doing nothing, but really, nothing at all, but ..." "I can't achieve it every time." "Sometimes I've got activity spasms." "Making a "do it" list and do it." "And then I feel so bad and stare at my toes for three days." "After that I can go to the radio and tell stories." "What are they about?" "Tell me a simple one." "There was once a French mathematician, Pierre de Fermat, who didn't like to work." "One day, in 1637, he was reading a math book, 153 days 00:17:17,494 -- 00:17:20,672 had an idea and wrote an equation on the side of the page." "And he writes a little note." ""I've discovered this great mathematical proof of the proposition but it does not fit the margin. " he wrote." "The little note was discovered after his death." "And 350 years mathemticians all over the world ... were not able to discover this equation." "It's called today Fermat's conjecture." "One of the world greatest enigma, just because the guy was too lazy to get up and take a sheet of paper." " I do not think I understand." " Sure you did!" "The hardest part of it is to admit it." "Talented, hardworking, a passionate committement... are not necessary to be famous." "You need, above all those things ... idleness." "And it works?" " I mean, the radio." " Pretty good." "People like it." "But ..." "The listeners are so convinced that doing nothing is best we can do... they do not listen to us anymore." "They sleep." "And you make a living?" "Yes." "And you?" "It's ok." " Are you comfortable here?" " Very." "I do not miss the city." "Does the owner often check the site?" "I would not say check but ..." "Yes, she often comes for a few days,and makes me understand that I live in her house." "No warning." "Yesterday she came unexpectedly." "This morning, I dared asking to call next time." "Completely freaked out." "She left as if I insulted her, you should have seen it." "You two almost met." " And how is she?" " Great." "The whole world could collapse,disintegrate, being depressed or just not going so well she would be in fine fettle." "Surprised that we mortals are not like her." "If she changed it would be worrying." "Maybe yes." "When I came here, I thought, maybe I could find the key to her joviality which is always flowing out," "And touch me, sometimes." "I came here to make peace, in a way." "But it's really easier when she's not here." "I'm glad to have news from you." "Me too." " Are you okay?" " Sure." " I love those churches." " Me too." " Did they really need two of them?" " I guess." "I heard a story about two young people, he was Anglican," "She was a Baptist." "They loved each other despite the desapprobation of their families." "During the office, both were in the back of the church." "At the same time,they quietly left to be together." "Of course someone noticed." "And they were caught." "It seems that the two pastors agreed to change the hours of the service to separate them." "Since then, it is so." "The bells have a different sound, that does not disturb quiet spirits." "And what happened to them?" "They left to Montreal as soon as possible." "Like Romeo and Juliet with a happy ending?" "Kind of." "But as it has an happy ending, it can't really be Romeo and Juliet." "And you, Juliet ..." "Do you have a Romeo?" " None." " Me neither." "But we're good by ourselves, aren't we?" "I'm not sure, but I think we have to tell we're good." "No?" "Personally, I feel really allright since I understood that time I spent thinking that I'd like to meet someone ..." "Is much more comfortable that time I spent yore, thinking that being alone was great." "I think this depends on people." "What do you do for a job, in the neighbourhood?" "Ah, finally!" "You want to know what little "nothing" I do during the day!" "Not really, but tell me." "In the end, I realize that I did not do too much." "But there is something you really like, and you do it the best you can..." "And ...?" "What do you think?" "You're supposed to know me." "Horticulturist." "No, but it would be nice." "Caterer." "No, but this is not bad." "Gerontology." "You lost." "Give me some guidance, we didn't see each other for such a long time!" "I say no more." "Working in a bakery." "I think she's a nurse." "Officer." "Veterinary Medicine." "I heard that she is a lawyer." "Historian?" "No, but I guess you can say that... it's related to it." "In a way you can say I am one... at a different scale." "Go on !" "Only the pianist left ..." "Geological research." "Geological research." "Geological research?" "I am writing an essay about surface geology" "Different sites of placer in the Eastern Townships." " You're impressed?" " Sites of what?" "placer, mostly." "Mineral masses." "You see ... what seems motionless, mountains, rocks, and so on... it moves." "Taking into account the earth's age That's normal movements." "We are the only ones who look like vibrating dust, insignificant." "In fact, if you look ..." " With hindsight ..." " You study..." "282 00:26:59,218 -- 00:27:01,650 movement of rocks." "Well ..." "Well, yes." "If you really need to put it in a nutshell." "You are not a workaholic, is not it?" "You have time to live, with the movments of the rocks." " Almost !" "Another phenomenon was observed at the Maine coast, when geological events makes the earth crack," "Molten rock, also known as effusive rocks, fills the gaps in." "In contrast to the volcanic events, where lava is carried out of the earth," "These gaps do not jeopardize the integrity of the crust." "Therefore, the magma ... does not get at the surface and petrify to form veins." "The spring flooding starts the slow process of erosion, shows long streams of lava prism, what's called dykes, and easy to recognized by ... their typical dark color." "Did you met the big Marie-Claude again?" "Yes, for a while, a few times a year." "At the university, and then some times again." "Then nothing." "I don't know if she lives in Sillery or in Cincinnati." "Myriam and Sophie?" "Myriam, not at all, but I met Sophie again." "From time to time, until now." "Architect." "I remember them, but it's funny" "I can not tell which one had red hair." "Sophie has." "During chemistry courses both of them wanted to pair up with me I couldn't choose just one of them." "I remember, I wanted to make teams of three." "Come on, Miss Popular." "There is a job for you." "I brought a visitor." "Hi." "Mr. Provencher." "How are you?" " Well, and you?" " Me, too." " Miss." " Remember Juliet?" "Oh, my God." "What a surprise." "Come on." "In summer, when the sap ascents in our marples, sagacful farmer puts in the tree a smart petcock skilful means and collect valuable sugary water to heat, in a huge boiler, heated by logs, powered thanks to a hoist where, like Hephaistos, the artisan monitor the source" "and carry out the ancient ritual, burning local woods to satisfy gluttony, to let people savor the delicate flavor of maple syrup." "I have modernized." "That's the particle separator." "The thermometer shows when the syrup is ready." "When you reach seven, you are finished." "There are tanks." " You see, I have a pair." " It's new." "Yes, it is." "Very special." "What wonder did you discover this time?" "Memoirs - or almost of a Swiss writer, at the beginning of this century," "completely mad,the way we like them." "He takes us with him during his daily walk." "We have an old deal." "Like a bartering." "I don't have enough time to go to the bookstore" "I do not really trust the salesman," "Julie is my guardian angel." "She never makes mistakes." "Until now." "It is not difficult." "We've got the same taste." "Have you read it?" "No." "I give it to you." " Oh, no." " Sure." "Why do you walk around the barn?" "Well, just because ... the man who for many years in many built, he thought that ... the devil was in the barn corner of the drag itself." "He always turned around to be sure that the devil wasn't there" "Why is it a red barn?" "This is annoying the devil." "Because he cannot enter it." "Got it?" "What do you do tomorrow?" "Nothing." "Of course, what a question." "Then you'll come with me." "Why?" "So we can do nothing together." "Really?" "I will try, seriously." "The first step is to sleep a lot." "As much as you can?" "The hardest thing is to resist temptation." "You feel you can do so much things." "But you mustn't." "If you listened to the advice of sleep, the whole world would have changed." "Your idol is the materess tester in Shelton, right ?" "No, my idol is Samuel Taylor Coleridge" " The writer?" " The great lyrical English poet." "And probably most genius lazy man of all times" " And she praises him ..." " All his life ..." "He had big projects he never tried to fulfill" "His masterpiece is Kubla Khan, 300 lines, he composed it in his sleep." " Oh, no." " That's right." "300 lines?" "Once awake, he wanted to write, but at the 54th line there was a small problem." "One of his creditors came in." "An hour had passed, it was difficult to get rid of him, and at the end he forgot everything, he couldn't continue to write." "Nevertheless, this one of the most famous creation of the British romantic literature." "Long live Coleridge." "Remember the puppies?" "What?" "When Chispa had puppies in autumn," "We had the great idea to take them on the boat with us" "They thought that would be funny to jump in the water, every puppy." "You did not hesitate, jumped in this cold water to save them all, one by one." "Then you absolutely wanted to dry them with the hair dryer." "You got such a flu I thought I would die." "You scared me so much." "I'm sorry." "I missed you." "I hope so." "One day you transferred schools, I never saw you again." " You liked the new school?" " Very much." "There was a large pool." "I see." "That's why I transferred." "Not because of my stincking shoes in the locker?" "I always thought that was due to my smelly feet." "No way." "They did stinck, but you did not tr nbvvansfer because of them." "After you left, I had tons of friends !" " There was a Joseph." " Joseph?" " And was he allright?" " Yes." "Then came Philemon." "Then, Pamela." "Then Natasha." "Then Arthur." "Then the sweet Gertude." "Then, if I remember correctly, Babylon." "So, it's the story of a woman who finds a kitten in the street." "He follows her everywhere." "The store, the laundry, the cobbler." "This woman is slightly allergic to cats, but he is so cute she adopted him." "Sneezing never killed anyone." "She is very happy." "In spite of the fact that her allergy tortures her, the cat brings her so much joy." "Years pass." "One day she feels very cold and exhausted." "A friend mentions that the health disorders begun 12 months ago." "Weeks later, she is feeling weak and starts to cough." "More and more, and then a few days later, a broken rib." "The cat sees his sick owner ... he comes closer to provide a little comfort." "But it gets worse." "Bronchitis it is." "A friend takes her to a well-known doctor." "He confirms everyone's suspicion." "The young woman has asthma." " It's that simple." " How sad." "No, quite the contrary." "Finally found what is wrong with her." "Thus, she's able to start the correct treatment." "She breathes freely ... for the first time of the year." "Crazy." "The sad part comes here." "The doctor tells her that ... allergy comes from the cat." "She hoped that he wasn't involved." "That perhaps it was caused by powder or because of the politicians, or ..." "Due to the Ragweed ?" " Ragweed?" " Yes." "Whatever, just not the cat." "So, she has to give her cat to somebody." "That's right." "But she can't." "Because of St. Exupery." ""You are forever responsible of what you tamed "" "She looks at her cat with an unexampled fondness." "He purrs, then he sneezes." " The cat?" " Yes." "Day after day he gets worse." "The doctors fail to understand." "She forgets everything about giving the cat, she wants to cure him now." "She takes the cat a specialist, at the Central University Hospital." "Here, an operation was proposed." "She agreed, and hopes." "The cat is given back to her, skull shaved but healthy." "She forgets all hospital costs, thinking that the whole expenses probably help medicine, or at least veterinary medicine." "The cat gets better, she doesn't ask for more." "A few weeks later ..." "She died of a heart failure, caused by asthma, because she couldn't reach the medicine." "The sad cat returned to the street." "Some skinhead adopted him because of his shaved head." "I do prefer mices." "Why did you gave up piano ?" "I didn't know how to make lines in my bed." "I bet you did not try to, lazy girl." "Why did you stop?" "I was not talented." "This is not true." "But, that's right." "I realized once that a musician studied technique 10% of his time." "The real work is to discover the great mystery of tone." "I had lots of trouble practicing before playing correctly, so ..." "Music is really something else." " Oh, no." " Yes" "I never properly played music." "I just looked at the keys and thought:" "Why are there 7 notes while I've got 10 fingers ?" "Why seven and not ten ?" "I tried to make my fingers fit to the keyboard, but I felt disabled, I could not play anymore." "Poor sisters, instead of taking about Indian shruti or dodecaphonism, or any musical convention ... who could have changed my fear into curiosity..." "Don't worry, it won't be that hard during the exam." "Bullshit." "I couldn't play anymore." "It was him or me." "This is not entirely true." "Actually, you're a coward." "I say it as a friend," "Idleness world champion talking ?" "This is not the point." "Coward ?" "Isn't it true ?" "No." "Maybe just a little bit." "But mostly not." "The cowardice would have been to hush up what I thought." "Nobody thought like me." "They thought I was talented." "Pretending would have been easy." "Maybe no one would have noticed" "My lack of talent." "Or maybe everybody agreed with me." "They shut down, asking themselves if this would last much longer." "Maybe they thought like you." "I should have played again, despite my fear." "Perhaps the courage is to pretend." "Maybe the courage is to realize that it's more courageous to do nothing when you know it's not worth it." "Even if I'm not sure" "I understand what you're saying, even if it is clear that you are completely drunk." " You're drunk." " Me?" "No." " Are you drunk?" " Am I ?" " Me?" " Yes, you." " I am not." " Yes you are" " You are more drunk than I am." " Yes?" "Prove it." " Excuse me!" "I dunno..." " I think I completely lost my mind I'm really sorry" " I'm tired..." "I'm going to go." "You can sleep in the green room." " But..." " Good night." "You did the right thing." "All right." "All right." "It's gone and not coming back." " I'm sorry." " It's okay." "It was an imitation." " I'll help you." " Forget it." "Relax." "Do you often host this kind of squatter?" "Sometimes." "It's part of rural life." "I hope you can get back to sleep." "I'll be fine." "Good night." "Good morning." "Did you sleep well, despite unexpected visitors?" "Yes, very well." "There are pancakes in the oven, jam, croissants," "Frankly speaking ..." "I'm not hungry." "Actually, in fact, frankly speaking, I feel ..." "I misused your hospitality." "I'd better go." "Thank you for everything." "And I'm sorry." "I do not know." "I do not want you to go away like that." "People don't do that... surprise people like that, walk with them in the path of the past, make revive this sweet collusion unaffected by time" "to let people down, flee when the smallest missunderstanding appears." "Fuck !" "It is not possible." "We can work it out." "You don't have to leave like this." "I don't want to to lose your friendship." "Because it's important to me." "Friendship? I am who I am" "That's what I feel about you, I can't help it." "I thought that this liking diminished with time, but no." "This will always be." "Until death." "Give me the keys, please." "It does not please me." "What?" "I'm sorry." "You say "please", but it doesn't please me." "What do you mean?" "Sorry." "I do not know what's going on here but I feel that I'm lost." "You don't want to give me my keys back, you don't want me to leave but I have to be, by chance, far from here." "Very soon." "So, just talk to me, give me my keys in the name of our beautiful friendship." "This is stupid, it's not what I forsaw." "What did you expect?" "I don't know." "It's not what was written, not what I dreamt up." "What are you talking about?" "It dreamt that we met again after so many years." "It wasn't in the subway, but in an opera house." "They played "La Traviata" ." " I've never been to the Opera." " Me neither." "We met in the toilets, Place des Arts." "We talk and talk, we tell our lives." "We stayed here the whole evening... talk so loud, and laugh so hard that ... we were asked to leave because people in the opera could hear us." "Would have been good." "But this is no longer going to happen." "All I want to know is whether you'll forgive me or not." "There is nothing to forgive." "That's life." "I need to know if you can forgive me." "At least you can tell me, before you leave." "Tell me ..." "Would you?" "Like I have done, when you lurked in the garden?" " What am I supposed to forgive?" " I hurt you." "I never ..." "I did not want to." " Please, tell me." " What?" "That you'll forgive me." " Ok, but ..." " Just because ..." "I must say," "I don't feel good ... when you look at me that way." "I could be completely ... happy, cheerful," "burning." "But it does not work." "I am unable to do this." "I feel ... unfit to do it." "I'm angry with myself." "I wish you had Cyrano's pride." "Nothing happened to Roxanne, she never knew how he felt." "They were the best friends they could have been." "... I do not know." "Would have been good." "I wish I never knew it." "Cyrano is an idiot." "An idiot." "He was too coward to admit that he loved her, so she never discovered that she loved him, until he died in her arms." " So I should have slept with you?" " No." "What I feel when I'm with you, I can't forget it exists, and you can not ask me to pretend." "Why are you so afraid?" "It's not that I'm afraid,or that I don't want to." "I'm just not capable of it." "It's impossible, do you understand?" "Even if we had a sweet love story when we were 16..." "I would have worn your clothes, and you mine." "We would have stared at each other, read our diaries." "Secretly kissing for hours." "It could have been so for weeks, maybe a couple of months, but not further." "And then?" "My mother would have realized, and put me in a boarding school." "Or not." "We would have stayed together, afternoons of reading." "But this would have reflected on our grades." "With all the tension around us, we might have had ... little fights, then more and more." "We would have seen each other less." "Or to have only crap to speak about" "or to break up." "Maybe you would have hit me." " Hit?" " Maybe." "Why me?" "I do not know." "It could have been the contrary." "We certainly would have had lots of pain." "It would have been hard to talk to our friends." "We wouldn't have known how to deal with our love pain." "You love me?" "No!" "You love me." "Stop it." "I always stop, but you always go on." "Good?" "Yes." "Are you all right? People testing mattresses are certainly two in a bed." "It's useless to test a big bed alone." "Would be almost unfair." "Bad results." "Wrtie them a complaint." "No, but ..." "I thought about applying." "From 9 to 5, lying over a bed would be interesting." "Will you be the match?" "What a weirdo." "Thank you." "I thank you anyway." "Let's say yes, it would be nice ..." "Are you all right? Hi, Mom." "Translated by PxAsL + corrected by Huysmans"