Il Postino Page #3

- It's easy then!

Why has it got such

a complicated name?

Man has no business with...

the simplicity

or complexity of things.

Excuse me, Don Pablo,

then I'll go.

I was reading something

yesterday:

''The smell of barber shops

makes me sob out loud.''

Is that a metaphor, too?

No...

not exactly.

I llked it, too, when...

when you wrote:

''I am tired of being a man.''

That's happened to me, too...

but I never knew how to say it.

I really liked it when I read it.

Why ''the smell of

barber shops makes me sob''?

You see, Mario...

I can't tell you...

in words different

from those I've used.

When you explain it,

poetry becomes banal.

Better than any explanation...

is the experience of feelings

that poetry can reveal...

to a nature open enough

to understand it.

Will you open this, please?

- Who, me?

- Yes.

- Shall I open it?

- Yes!

My hands are dirty.

It's written in--

It's foreign.

Is it more important

than the others?

Yes, it's from Sweden.

What's so special about Sweden?

The Nobel Prize for Literature.

A prize then?

If they give it to me,

I won't refuse.

Why?

How much money is it?

I've no idea, is that a lot?

Lots and lots!

Then you'll get it.

There are candidates with

a better chance than me this year.

Why?

Because they've

written important works.

No...

you'll get it, I'm sure.

Thank you.

Shall I open the other letters?

No, I'll read them later.

Are they Iove letters?

What a question!

Don't let Matilde hear you.

I'm sorry, Don Pablo.

I only meant--

I'd like to be a poet, too.

No, it's more originaI

being a postman.

You get to walk a lot

and don't get fat.

We poets are all fat.

Yes, but...

with poetry...

I could make women fall for me.

How--

How do you become a poet?

Try and walk sIowly along

the shore as far as the bay...

and look around you.

And will they come to me,

these metaphors?

Certainly.

Mario, can you send someone to see

about this probIem of water?

Have you got water?

No, that's exactly the problem.

That's no problem at all!

Why? Is it normal?

It's normaI.

You've run out of water...

up at the cistern.

Do you use a lot of water?

No, just what I need.

Then that's too much.

Because...

it runs out all of a sudden

because the water-supply ship...

comes only once a month,

so the water gets used up.

We've got-- They've been saying

we'll get running water...

for ages.

''You'll have running water.'' But--

And you don't protest?

What do we say?

My father swears every so often...

but... only to himself.

There are people who, with a strong

will, manage to change things.

It's a pity.

This place is so beautiful!

Think so?

Yes. Sit down.

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