Black Butterflies Page #2
I see you as young, Jack.
"I repeat you, without beginning or end,
repeat your body.
The day has a thin shadow,
The landscape has no distinction
and the people a row of candles
While I repeat you
with my breasts, which imitate
the hollows of your hands."
Hello.
Hello, Ingrid.
I recognize you from the newspapers.
Uys Kriger.
And you must be Jack Cope,
the writer.
How do you do?
Oh, come in.
Come in.
Your father's on the phone.
My goodness,
Even on sundays,
they bother him now.
He barely has time to write
his novels anymore.
Pa writes books, Lulu,
not novels.
I heard that.
Sorry to keep you all.
Uys Kriger, I'm an admirer
of your plays.
- You're quite prolific.
- Pleased to meet you, Dr. Jonker.
- Jack Cope.
- how do you do?
For some reason, I thought
you'd be younger.
Pa!
-Where's Anna?
- She has a migraine,
- But she sends her love.
- All right.
Come this way.
Please.
Maria, you're spoiling us.
When I heard you was coming,
I put in extra roast potatoes,
just the way you like them.
Ah, and this little peach,
she's looking more and more
like her grandmother.
That's all, Maria.
Thank you.
Mr. Cope, I just read your
story, the one called "Power."
- Hhm
- It's good, don't you think, Pa?
I thought it was quite manipulative,
rescue of a white boy.
Well, he comes to the rescue
of the bird, not just the boy.
The beauty in the story
is the allegory of the bird.
It represents freedom.
- What kind of freedom?
- Political freedom.
Fortunately for us,
blacks can't grasp
allegorical writing.
Shall we pray?
Lord, we thank you for what
we are about to receive.
In Jesus' name, amen.
- Amen.
- Smells good.
It's Rooibok.
Abraham shot it himself.
Dr. Jonker, you don't honestly believe
that black people are stupid, do you?
Intellectually inferior.
So by implication, you regard
the afrikaners as a superior race.
We were chosen by god
to lead this country.
The nazis paid dearly for their
presumption of being a superior race.
If you think you can compare
the afrikaner to the nazis,
you're way off the mark,
Mr Cope.
Can we not just eat
with our differences?
He wanted me to get a ticket for you
and Simone back to Johannesburg.
This is not the time, Pa.
give it another try.
So, uh, Uys.
You working on something
interesting right now?
I'm doing an afrikaans translation
of king lear.
He had a terrible time with his
daughters too, that man.
Excuse me.
She is in her old room, boss.
I didn't mean to upset you.
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