Alexis Zorbas Page #4

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...everybody was crying.

Me?

I got up...

...and I danced.

They said:

"Zorba is mad."

But it was the dancing...

...only the dancing

that stopped the pain.

You see, he was my first.

And he was only 3.

When I'm happy...

...it's the same thing.

Come inside. You'll catch cold.

With your permission.

Now...

...will you tell me

what this is all about?

- I got a plan.

- What plan?

A great, big, crazy plan.

Well, what?

- I cannot tell you.

- Why?

I got many things to be figuring:

trees, monks, machines.

Tomorrow, maybe.

Tonight we celebrate.

Come on! Don't be delicate.

- Boss.

- What?

Come and see.

Do you remember that plan

I could not tell you about?

- Here it is.

- What is it?

It's a mountain. That one.

Oh, yes.

Look.

That's the way

we'll get the trees down.

An overhead cable? You're mad.

Why?

Well, to begin with

that forest doesn't belong to us.

Well it doesn't, and it does.

What does that mean?

It belongs to the monastery.

The monastery belongs to God.

And God belongs to everybody.

You agree?

No, I certainly don't.

All right,

you will pay them something...

...but not much.

- How do you know?

They are friends of mine.

If it works, we will bring down

the whole forest.

First we get the mine going.

Then open a timber factory.

We get stinking rich, then make our

own ship and sail around the world.

Aren't you going a little too fast?

Do you know how old I am?

Never mind, that's a secret.

But I have got to go fast.

You know, they... They say that

age kills the fire inside of a man.

That he hears death coming.

He opens the door and says,

"Come in. Give me rest."

That is a pack of old damn lies!

I've got enough fight in me

to devour the world.

So I fight.

Well? Do we?

Or do we let the mountain win?

Tell me what you need.

I will need some strong wire,

hooks and... And things.

I will have to go to town.

I still have to figure out the angle.

If it's not perfect,

it will be catastrophe.

How long will it take you?

The way things are going,

it had better be soon or not at all.

I'll give you until Christmas.

Hey, boss.

Rose water.

- Boss?

- Well? What news?

I made a great discovery.

Stones are alive.

Well, that's fine.

Well, I wish instead you'd discover

your famous angle.

I'm trying, boss.

- Look, your umbrella.

- Never mind.

Just let me remind you

that tomorrow's Christmas.

I know.

Wh..? Where are you going?

I need some wire.

Where the hell did I put it?

Won't this string do?

Excuse me.

Look.

A melomakarouna.

- A what?

- A Christmas cookie.

Well, what's so strange about that?

Nothing.

But many melomakarouna inside

an empty trunk is very strange.

- An umbrella under a bed is also strange.

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