Good Morning, Babylon Page #5

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in the birdhouse."

Remember what we promised

each other...

We only go out with...

directors or producers.

What a lot of laughs!

They're here.

Mr. Grass and company,

rather on the dot.

Listen, what if we asked

them for a rain check?

We can still get to

the woods some time...

Oh, forget it Mabel.

Getting involved with Nicola

and Andrea would be like...

like building houses on quicksand.

Those two are losers!

Poor guys.

- We're late.

- Oh, let them wait!

Oh, just look at those lips!

Whenever they chap like that,

I just know something

is going to go wrong.

Let me tell you,

the best medicine is to laugh!

I wish I wasn't here!

We have the money to go back.

Yes, but just enough to go back.

What will we tell father?

I wish I was back home

in the square playing in the bands.

What we do now, huh?

G. Rossini

"The Thieving Magpie"

This is the elephant

Griffith has been waiting for.

We will build one for him,

standing up, life-size!

They build that?

No, I can't believe it.

It's too beautiful!

What are you doing?

Are you not going undress?

I took off my vest.

A person wants to smell skin...

I know but...

I'm ashamed.

What about me, then?

A woman's body

is always beautiful!

At least your boots!

I told you!

It's good to be with you, Andrea!

You know some times I feel

like I am with two people.

You know, Edna and me, we're

friends too, but it's different.

But with you there's something more.

You two always together,

same,

always equal to each-other.

No...

Now tell me what

you were about to say.

Please tell me!

I was thinking about a time that

Nicola and I were not equal as you say.

We were about nine and ten,

and both had

two cents in our pockets.

We bought a ticket apiece.

Nicola got number 18.

I got 50.

18 came out!

Nicola got his beautiful Spanish knife.

Chance has favored just one of us.

Our strength, our equality

had been destroyed.

Why did you tell my this story?

To scare me?

No!

To make you realize

how much you mean to me.

You're the first person I told it to.

The scar's over here!

This is the scar?

Yes, but don't tell Andrea that

I told you this story, my love.

He'll never forgive me.

Those were happy days.

Edna and Mabel introduced

us to their friends

people from all over the world,

who had come to work in the movies.

One evening they came to see us

and we took them to see our elephant.

Was it worthy to be

shown to Griffith?

It's a little gray,

isn't it?

An elephant is gray.

It's true to reality,

but it won't stand on a film.

If it was lightened, Andrea,

I'd shoot some test of it.

- Then, we'll see.

- Yeah, right.

It'll be day soon,

in a couple of hours.

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