Malina Page #2

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It's not ruined.

A few stitches and it'll

look great on you...

Just a few stitches...

Why're you laughing?

A guy called Lajos called you.

Urgent.

Where do you vanish to?

Jealous?

You must understand me.

I love no one, except children.

I've earned an ice cream.

Bring cigarettes, too,

we'll smoke them together.

It'll be too late for ice cream.

Some other time.

I must go home now, it's late.

I had my thesis exam.

If I know you, it was a drama.

Just the opposite.

I saw embers on the floor

near the stove.

I got a pan and shovel.

Not a soul around.

The smoke and embers were awful.

I smelled of them for days,

my shoes were ruined.

Nothing happened.

So you saved Vienna's Institute

of Philosophy. What about you?

I didn't go up in smoke, alas.

I stayed.

What'd you say?

Nothing.

Go ahead.

Later.

What'll you do later?

I'll never tell you.

What'd you say?

I hate to yell like this.

"Dear Mr. Schonthal...

"Hastily...

"and full of anxiety...

"For years...

"I have been incapable...

"sometimes for weeks on end...

"The woman you thought you knew...

"does not exist!"

I'm simply dead.

Nothing special... letters.

I'm going right to bed.

I'm exhausted.

I'll sleep as long as I like.

You go to bed early too, for once.

Yes, I was awfully tired.

Dead tired.

Dead!

No I'm not in bed yet.

I'm just tired.

That's all, weary.

You must be even more tired.

Now?

You said to come at once, right?

That's what I said.

If not now, when?

You said something before...

I have to take a piss.

...something that made me feel save.

But one line can't tranquilize

someone who's lost everything.

A veritable deluge!

I don't know why I'm crying.

Cry your heart out.

It'll do you good!

I assure you, I'll get over it.

But a week without you...

It's never lasted a week.

You don't notice.

So you cry in advance.

Maybe you're right to cry in advance.

Maybe later there won't be

anything to cry about.

A week without you is a week without reality.

You can't imagine what it's like.

Go ahead, cry.

I'm off to bed.

Really?

Malina, you understand

that a woman, who lives alone,

and works

can suddenly become dependent

on someone else...?

Go to bed.

No, I must tell you today.

How can a simple phone call to one

be a disaster for the other?

Don't tell me anything... Nothing!

You look tired.

Do I turn out the lights?

No, leave one on, please.

I'll turn them all off,

for once. Do you good.

Go to sleep. Be happy.

I am happy.

Because if you're not happy...

Then?

Then...

you'll never write

or do anything... good!

Malina, do I still deserve anything?

You can get anything from me,

except what I don't have.

I can't give you that.

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