A Zed & Two Noughts Page #5

How is he?

He's miserable

like you.

Oliver says,

that rot starts in the stomach.

With an apple?

In the intestines,

in the liver, pancreas,

the spleen, near the womb.

I'm going to see Oliver.

Do you want me to give him a message?

No, I've got nothing to say.

Yes, tell him to look after himself.

Oliver!

Oliver, what the hell are you doing?

I'm having breakfast.

Stop it, you bloody idiot!

- You pathetic idiot!

- It's only ice.

Ice floats

and you don't put ice in wine.

Since when has etiquette

been your strong point?

Oh, all right.

Phone for an ambulance, I've had enough.

Thank you.

- Shall I call for Oswald?

- No!

All right, yes.

Tell him, I'm bleeding. He'll come.

He always used to come

when I was bleeding.

What's Oliver looking for?

I don't know.

I mean, look at all this stuff.

Maybe he's looking for an answer

to his wife's death.

He will not find it here.

This is just a straightforward account.

The squid

is among the most intelligent

of the invertebrates.

Darwin was a good storyteller.

Both brothers have taken out a copy.

Have I got to sit through them all?

There are eight parts.

This is only the third.

God, it's all such a dreary fiction.

You were right.

Though I didn't deserve this, okay?

How was he right?

I was pregnant.

I not only lost a leg in that crash,

I lost a child.

Though I wasn't,

by any means, trying to.

Gamma is not

a very good name for a child.

I have yet to work out my greater loss.

But I know that I want another leg

and another child.

As you can see,

it was inferior china.

What do you want

to keep those for?

Throw them away, you stupid boy!

I'd like to see this place.

Then go and see it.

And come back and tell me,

how it's getting on.

The key is in my bag.

You could go together.

So who found you?

- De Milo.

- Who is she?

Actually, her trade name is Venus,

her clients call her De Milo.

The seamstress.

She's a beautiful stitcher.

When she's not watching the zebras,

she meets her clients

at the panda house.

Oh! And what's her speciality?

Bamboo.

- "J" is for...

- Jaguar.

- "K" is for...

- Kangaroo.

- "L" is for...

- Lion.

- "M" is for...

- Monkey.

Mon dieu, Oswald! What's this?

Prawns on their way back.

- Way back?

- To where they came from.

Ooze, slime, murk...

Ooh, I'm still alive.

Someone's being tampering

with my experiment.

Or perhaps they were hungry.

Who the hell is he?

He's the surgeon who removed my leg.

He wants to be a painter,

a Dutch painter.

In fact, the Dutch painter Vermeer,

no less!

Vermeer

only painted 26 paintings

and three of those are dubious.

That's enough.

Obviously not!

Van Meegeren tried to paint some more.

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