Despair Page #5

No.

How could he resign...

without telling me?

- Telling you, sir?

- Yes, me.

Am I mad? Do I own this factory?

Or am I some tramp?

Wandering around, looking for a job?

Oh. Not our Mr. Mller.

I mean the chancellor.

The government has resigned.

Oh, the government...

- Hello!

- Hello?

You are still giving

an excellent performance.

Bravo.

Have you forgotten your place?

No.

Mller...

Why did the government resign?

Mller wanted to cut unemployment

benefits and got voted out.

Good riddance.

Surely the unemployed should be

able to share what's available.

When unemployed increases,

then the share decreases.

When it doubles, they should get half.

- That's a bit rough, sir.

- Well...

you have to take the rough with the smooth.

If the government could

reduce unemployment to about...

...oh, a dozen,

they would be billionaires.

Have you joined

the boy scouts or something?

Do you mind me wearing

uniform in the office, sir?

No, not at all.

Most appropriate,

a chocolate-colored jacket.

This chocolate...

this chocolate tastes, um...

Bitter?

What are you doing?

It's Saturday. We're waiting for you.

We're going to the lake.

Don't you remember?

You said you wanted to draw me.

Will you wait a minute?

La Boheme, huh?

Is this your contribution

to political art?

Oh... no, no. No, no, no.

That was done by the housekeeper's son.

He is interested in politics.

You can have it.

- 35 marks.

- No thank you.

Get dressed, Ardalion.

Liddy?

Ardalion!

Come!

Let's start.

Start what?

Oh... oh. Start the art, huh?

Are you in a hurry?

Yes. I'm in a hurry.

By the way...

you've got a tricky face, Hermann.

Would you consider my face unusual?

The modern school.

It looks a bit like Hermann.

It looks more like Hermann

than Hermann himself.

And all's right with the world.

Oh, please!

- Have one of these!

- So kind.

All in order.

And, frankly, it's a bargain.

The premiums were set a year ago

and are well below

under the actuarial reality.

- And what kind of reality is that?

- To me, the only kind.

And, to you, it's not reality

at all:
a statistical probability.

Do you mean the probability of my sudden

death has increased in the last year?

No. Statistically.

Oh... political riots and

violence in the street.

And violence in the families. Violence...

violence in the houses and... violence,

- even in the Reichstag and so on and so on.

- But I am a foreigner in this land.

It would be presumptuous of me

to have a political opinion...

And bad manners...

to express it.

Insurance is above politics.

The Brownshirts and the Communists

and... the immigrants...

and Chancellor Brning, himself:

They're all equal...

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