Solaris Page #3

Still workin' on that.

Where's your visitor?

I don't know. Stopped appearing.

- Who's your visitor?

- My brother.

Who was it?

My wife.

Dead?

So what was her name?

Will she come back?

Do you want her to?

- No, it isn't.

- Yes, it is.

- No, it isn't. It's crap.

- Only one way to find out.

You can submit it to someone

and see if they publish it.

That's not an indication of anything.

So no one else's opinion counts

except for yours?

- Yeah.

- That's insane.

- "That's" insane.

- I like it.

Brings out the red in my eyes.

So, did you show it to your father?

- Yeah.

- And?

- And he liked it.

- What'd he say?

- He said he liked it.

- Well...

He's a man who doesn't pass out

compliments very easily. That's something.

- What's that tell you?

- Can we talk about something else? Please?

All right. When do you wanna get hitched?

Every time I bring it up

you make ajoke about it, and...

I know, I know. That's pathet...

I'm sorry. It's just...

It-it's so difficult for me.

Still? Is it something that I'm not doing?

No. No, no, no. That's not the issue at all.

Because, you know,

if you keep putting this off,

then in 15 or 20 years

I'm just gonna stop asking.

- Well, I've got ages, then.

- Mm.

So apart from the poem that you

quoted to me the night that we met...

The night that you were hitting on me.

Oh, I don't think so.

What's your favourite poem?

My favourite Dylan Thomas poem?

Well, there's the, uh...

Listen to this. We have, uh... There's the...

Well, there's the one he's most famous for,

which starts, um...

- "There was a young man from Nantucket..."

- I knew it. I just...

I'm not marrying you.

You...

Oh, you're marrying me.

Would we have to invite anyone else?

There should be witnesses.

Otherwise nobody'd believe us.

When I was little I had

this imaginary friend called Mikashelli,

who used to live under the wallpaper

in the corner of the room.

I used to go and visit. I had a very

intense relationship. I was an only child.

As you know. And, um...

that was like my sibling.

That was the person I used to have

battles with and fights with and everything.

What happened progressively

over the next few years

is that my mother stopped

communicating with me.

She only communicated with me as

Mikashelli, and wrote me these letters,

and we didn't have conversations any more.

- I mean, admittedly, she was certifiable.

- Mm-hm.

But, um, yeah, that was

a strange way to grow up.

You know, you're with the right man.

I so know that. That's what's great.

Cos, man...

Rheya...

It's me.

It's me.

I don't remember that.

When did you get that?

I got itjust before I came here.

- Was I with you?

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