Tertium non datur Page #2
- Year:
- 2006
- 39 min
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right out of Iai.
It was lost for good,
but then it surfaces,
where do you think,
in Chernovtsy of course.
It had been chased back
to its place of origin.
Then the final ordeal started,
I chased it in knee-high mud,
starved, in the cold,
to Tighina, Rbnia, Moghilev.
I met it face to face,
nowhere left to run,
it was terminus... Vapniarka (town in Ukraine).
Here it is!
But I had to pay 50,000 marks,
travel expenses not included.
Look.
The aurochs head is no longer unique.
Now there are two identical stamps
in the world, but two only.
Tenium non datur (meaning "there is no third possibility").
How much do you think it's worth?
I couldn't say, at least
The hell it is!
You're far off the mark.
It's at least a million,
a million and a half German marks.
Look at the left ear, it's got two
discontinuities in its lower side.
Look, the shades on the inside
of the ear differ in shape.
And his eyes... extraordinary,
perfectly round,
the left one is bigger, asymmetric
and the iris is doubled by a spot.
Look, General, this small arc,
It's written in Romanian.
For the first time.
Porto scrisori (letters).
Excuse my interruption. I assume
the stamp was not traveling by itself,
it had company,
like the rich Jew, for instance.
Naturally...
I said the stamp"... as a...
Ellipsis...
That's a classical trope
used in order to avoid
something potentially embarrassing.
Very useful to express ambiguity.
Short cut", you know?
Pardon?
The stamp is here,
but the Jew is short of a head.
What happened to the Jew
who was accompanying the stamp?
The Jew was paid 50,000 Marks cash.
Where was I?
The eyes are round...
Yes, the eyes are round...
The right eye is round
with a stellar pupil...
Forgive me. Vapniarka...
Vapniarka is a camp, right?
Yes... yes, a camp.
It's not Ritz...
Sometimes they don't get
hot chocolate for breakfast.
May I go on?
The right eye is round
with a stellar pupil
and a trace of an eyebrow...
Honestly, I don't get you,
you Romanians are very bizarre.
You can still get out of Vapniarka...
still get out...
But try this in Poland...
Here you can still negotiate.
You grease somebody and you're out.
With a bit of luck you get aboard a ship at Constana
(town in Romania on the Black See).
And farewell
to the promised land.
It's very expensive because
it's a country of thieves and bandits.
- Thieving gypsies.
. Yes, yes, thieving gypsies.
Present company excluded, of course.
Gentlemen...
I am not an anti-Semite...
The Von Klarenfelds are aristocrats.
All raised in a humanist,
liberal tradition.
If you want to know, I've carefully
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