The Sleeping Dictionary Page #3

Sorry?

You're not picking up

the language very fast, are you?

And where are those

Chinese heads?!

You are in the bathroom.

I am in...?

the bedroom.

What do I do?

I...

I say good night

to my father.

Where do you go?

Bedroom.

Bedroom...

bedroom.

W-what next?

I-I go to sleep.

Do English people

have dreams at night?

Sometimes, yeah.

Are we really

that strange?

Have you ever

sleep with a woman?

I won't

till I get married.

That's our way.

But when you marry

you'll be very bad at sex

and your wife

will be unhappy.

I'll take evening classes,

I promise.

I've never met anyone...

even a little like you.

Whyever did you

choose me?

Your dance is not

the dance of an Englishman.

Good night.

Yes.

I thought you didn't like

our education.

You want to educate us

like your father did?

You were educated because

you're the chief's son.

Shouldn't others have

the same opportunity?

William, William,

Henry, Henry,

Richard, John, Henry,

Edward, Edward,

Richard, Henry,

Henry, Edward,

Edward, Richard,

Henry, Henry, Edward--

Mary, Elizabeth,

James, Charles,

Charles, James, William,

George, George, George, George,

William, Victoria,

Edward, George, Edward, George.

The kings of England.

And why do I need

to know that?

The mission school

tries to turn us

into little Englishmen.

They didn't do a very good job

with you, did they?

You missed Queen Anne,

by the way.

You missed King Stephen.

I hear when you were young,

you were a champion at

the underwater battles.

When I was young?

I am still champion

of 1 0 Longhouses.

Yes, they say you can

beat any girl on the river.

Will you

challenge me then?

How you--

how you do that?

Some Englishmen

can breathe underwater

through their ears.

I wonder if I might

have a word about...

those heads.

It's lovely

workmanship.

I'll add those

to the collection.

The ants eaten

your dinner jacket yet?

I think there's

an arm or two left.

Good.

My daughter Cecilia

is arriving for Christmas.

First class honors degree

at Oxford.

You'd like her.

Come to dinner.

Oh!

How drunk is he?

Blind, legless, daft,

sick, smelly drunk.

My mother

read that to me.

My father

read it to me.

Do you remember

your father?

He go back to England

when I am four.

My dad died

when I was four.

"Deep, deep

beneath the sea

where the water is

clear as purest glass

Iies the palace

of the Sea King.

There behind its...

walls of coral

and roof of cockleshells

lives a little mermaid."

You can read English.

I remember it

by my heart.

I made him read it

many time.

Write a word from it.

"Deep."

Now you.

"Hand."

"Arm."

Neck.

Lips.

Breast.

I-I'm sorry.

That was too quick,

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