The Ninth Gate Page #2
CORSO (grins to himself): He should be quicker off the mark.
The spiral staircase judders as BERNIE starts to descend.
CORSO goes over to a wall cupboard and opens it. An assortment of
bottles and glasses come to light.
CORSO (cont.):
May I?BERNIE:
Your valuation was way over the odds it's brought thosepeople out In a rash. They're now asking twice what the books are
worth.
CORSO, still grinning, pours himself a slug of Scotch. BERNIE
reaches the ground.
BERNIE (cont.):
He's talking about suing you. Well, let's faceit:
you screwed him. That's what it's called.CORSO:
I know what it's called.BERNIE comes up close.
BERNIE:
He also says you snaffled the 'Don Qui ...He breaks off as CORSO produces the four volumes of the
'Quixote', bends over to examine them, whistles appreciatively.
BERNIE:
(cont.): The Ybarra 'Don Quixote', 1780, four volumes.Fantastic! (opens one) Sonofabitch, you're the best in the
business. Definitely.
CORSO:
And the most expensive. (smiles slyly) That client ofyours, the Swiss, is he still interested in this edition?
BERNIE smiles back, then redirects his attention to the books.
BERNIE:
Sure, but Witkin will blow a fuse. I told him I hadnothing to do with this operation.
CORSO knocks back his Scotch in one. Extracting a crumpled
cigarette from the pocket of his overcoat, he sticks it in his
mouth and lights it.
CORSO:
Nothing except your ten percent.BERNIE:
: Twenty. The Swiss is my client, remember.CORSO (shakes his head): No deal.
BERNIE:
Fifteen. (cynically) For my children's sake.CORSO:
You don't have any.BERNIE:
I'm still young. Give me time.CORSO (expels a lungful of smoke, unmoved): Ten.
A taxi pulls up outside an opulent building downtown. CORSO gets
out, dodges a persistent beggar, and enters. The sign above the
entrance reads:
'BALKAN PUBLICATIONS'.7. BALKAN BUILDING: LOBBY INT/DUSK
CORSO nods to the SECURITY GUARD at the desk and makes hit way
across the lobby to a door at the back. Beside it stands an
easel-mounted announcement: 'Demons and Medieval Literature, by
Boris Balkan, Ph.D.' It's adorned with a medieval engraving
depicting an Inquisition torture scene.
8. BALKAN BUILDING: LECTURE ROOM INT/DUSK
BORIS BALKAN, standing at a state-of-the-art lecturer's desk, is
a bulky, imposing figure of a man around 50 years old. His thick
gray hair is slicked back to reveal a domed forehead. The eyes
beneath it radiate keen intelligence through a pair of heavy
hornrims. He speaks in a deep, slow, almost monotonous voice, but
with great authority.
BALKAN:
Relevant information may be found in Antoine Martin delRio's 'Disquisitionum Magicarum', Louvain 1599, and earlier, in
1580, in 'De la d‚monomanle des sorciers' by the Frenchman, Jean
Bodin...
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