The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner Page #3
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a bit better than this, Smith.
Surely your nerves were on edge,
weren't they?
You felt afraid.
Well, if I felt afraid,
I mean, I wouldn't have broken in, would I?
Yeah, all right, fair enough.
Look, I want you to help me.
I'm going to say a word
and I want you to reply with any word
that comes into your head, okay?
Like, if I say to you, "Food,"
what do you think of?
I'm sorry, I don't get the idea at all.
Well, would you like to do it to me?
- Say a word to me.
- Tape recorder.
Tape recorder. Desk.
I don't know why I said desk,
it just happened.
Now, I'll say one to you.
Water.
Football.
Football.
Sky.
Snow.
Snow, indeed.
- Girl.
- Look...
I mean, what are you trying to do to me?
- I don't understand.
- Now, come on, Smith,
please, I'm trying to help you, help me.
- Girl.
- Boy.
Boy.
- Have you got a girlfriend, Smith?
- What's she got to do with you?
Oh, right, right.
- Gun.
- Horses.
- Knife.
- Smoke.
- Car.
- Compass.
- Father.
- Dead.
Why did you say that? Is your father dead?
Right.
- When did he die?
- The other week.
The other week?
I'm very sorry.
Your mother was very upset, I expect.
- No.
- She wasn't?
Not very.
Well, I think that'll be all for now.
Thank you.
- You mean I can go now, sir?
- Yes.
All right, thank you very much, sir.
- I hope you do well here.
- I hope you do, sir.
- What?
- In a manner of speaking.
Oh, I see. Right. Thanks.
Well, they certainly drive themselves hard
on the playing field.
Well, they're high-spirited, Mr. Brown.
If they weren't, they wouldn't be here.
Each of us has to expend our energy
on something, you know.
"Mens sana in corpore sano,"eh?
Well, that's better than some of that
psychiatric stuff they shove at us.
You mark my words.
Yes, but surely you believe that
an emotional readjustment
might be the answer
to some of their problems.
Well, of course, I do,
if I didn't, I wouldn't be here, would I?
No.
But how do we tackle the basic aggression
- which these lads obviously feel?
- By channeling it in the right direction.
I was just wondering whether
life wasn't a little more complicated
than a football match.
Go on, Col, get to one. Go on then.
Come on!
- Did you see that?
- Oh, you had him there.
Right down the middle with it, Don.
- Get it.
- Foul ball!
- That's a foul, ref!
- Oh, come on.
Come on, ref, it's obvious...
- Swallowed your whistle, ref?
- Go.
- Come on.
- Go on, Col.
Get to one, go on then.
- Come on.
- Get around him.
- Come on, Col.
- Go, go. That's it. You're on your own.
- You're on your own, boy.
- Kyle!
- Shoot!
- Come on.
- Well done, mate.
- Great.
Great, everyone.
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