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do you love some ideal your country

anything so much that you would

kill tell me that you killed for freedom

and the Dignity of man just give me

anything that's

acceptable what what just tell me

something that's

acceptable I

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can't

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oh

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oh

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these children are all orphans there are

30 of them in this Camp Africans with

their strong sense of family l loyalty

are ready to acknowledge the most

distant ties of kinship yet no relative

of these sad children has come forward

to claim them all are dead or scattered

in the chaos of war the children have

only each other to lean

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on have any of them been able to go back

to their Farms yet at all since they

came back years they have been able to

go back to their Farms but they find

that the Farms have been overgrown and

much of the crops

lost so it is difficult still to aler

they're relying on you to a considerable

extent so for food in fact there are

whatever food we can get in from many

quarters that's all that they have to

eat and uh we need a lot of Charity what

about the people who are dying

here the rate of death has sharply

increased from 2 a week in this Camp to

7 since the operations

in 7 a day

now are you worried about disease in

this Camp oh very very much so because

we are suffering here from dentry and

malaria

malnutrition and shortage of nurses and

doctors we have no doctor here the last

6 weeks any chance of getting people

into Hospital there's no hospital around

if we had a hospital that we would like

it very much what drugs do you need most

uh malaria drugs and dentry drugs for

dentry nutrition vitamin pills if we

could get them and uh vaccinations of

course when there is danger of small pox

if you could get forther do to

vaccinated the people very very grateful

what situation do you think would arrive

FKS did start here what would happen I'm

afraid everybody would be wiped out easy

as

that this tin of tuna fish actually came

from caratz International it could

equally well have come from the Red

Cross the World Council of churches or

Oxfam they've all contributed relief

supplies to this

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camp

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father Dutton has voted father dutton's

number please number seven number seven

thank you your name and address please s

Fric 8980

T

please give Mr Fric

a voted this is roic's number please

number nine number your name and address

please John Cunningham 6942 June Street

give Mr Cunningham a republican ballot

please thank

you oh good good morning Mr Cunningham

how are you

fine since when do you need music I hate

to be helped by music I'm my own music

I'm looking for the election

return oh that's right I almost forgot

are you voting

I already

have who' you vote

for better be Ellis why you voted for

Gibbons oh that's terrible should have

voted for Ellis why he's vital he's

Kennedy Young and Beautiful he's new

besides GI is an Old Crow oh hey that's

not so he's a good man his knowledge and

experience and an accurate understanding

of the way things should be in this is

concrete have a on the count any thinks

things out very clearly I like a man

like that states thatan combat in

Vietnam we

127 that's terrible should have voted

for

Alice the Vietnam

war9 you know you really are

oldfashioned nobody uses beds

anymore can I sleep here

afterwards did you ever let any of us

sleep here

afterwards

even late at

night

why

why I like staying awake with people but

I

like sleeping

alone oh

sorry I always forget you don't like to

kiss listen I want to hear

this have you ever been with a woman you

haven't paid for no

why you know I have a friend of mine

who's been in this business about 400

years I think she made it with

Washington at Valley

Forge and she knows everything about

everything especially this and you know

what she said she said making love is

90% control and 10% emotion and she only

found one like that in her

life wait till I tell her I've got a

trick in my book who's 97% control and

3%

emotion

listen you want me to say I love

you I never know whether you want me to

say I love you or not you know that when

I was 22 years

old I gave up the business of knowing

anything for the business of

guessing I am a champion

guesser I guess for example the kind of

religions that might be practicable from

an organizational point of view in the

year let's say of

2,300 oh look at me Jonathan look at me

what a waste but that wouldn't take me

too

seriously you know every time I have a

birthday I always do an obituary about

myself look here is a lecture that I'm

giving today to an elite group of

corporate Wizards it's on the expected

vehicular traffic between Boston and

Washington DC in the year

20150 why it has to do with road

builders

supposedly the knowers don't know so the

guessers

guess I've uh I got a job for you a new

job but I don't think you want it why

it's a hard

contract

what's hard about it it has to be

accomplished within a month and I know

that you don't like time limits

but the money is substantially more than

you and I have ever received before but

what is it it's three men two of them in

Europe one of them is in talino Spain

right on the

Mediterranean and the second is in

Brussels and the third they haven't

located yet where well uh do they know

are they hiding of course not I have no

inkling

whatsoever well I don't like hard

contracts but uh i' never been in Europe

I'd like to see

Europe when what do you know about the

third one well you call me from Brussels

when you're done I'll be able to tell

you by

then oh Jonathan I wish I was going with

you to

Molinos I been a Bain in 30

years you know I used to practically

live in the

pra just before it was Madrid's turn to

go

under I sometimes think that when Madrid

went under so did

I I stopped believing in

anything and I started betting on

everything you know my heroic struggle

was over and after that it's it's all

for spite and then you are

60 did you ever get a ticket for

speeding did you ever get a parking

ticket no now I know you so well that I

could write a biography of you in depth

by simply asking questions to which the

answer would be

no it's a very publishable idea would

not only be a biography it would be a

history as well I call

it I call it the history of

murder from C to

Cunningham and a basic thesis would be

that it gets more and more careful so

now it's so careful there seems to be

practically no crime involved

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anymore

H

you

love he was at the desk asking for a

woman for

$50 she's exceedingly handsome whatever

fall see that man over there in the blue

suit yes what about him he's very

attractive very he's an American he just

arrived typical tourist doesn't speak

Spanish he goes to the concierge and

asks to buy a woman what do you mean buy

one

oh oh I see what you mean buy one p de

man you never find what he wants in is

off you have to go to Madrid probably he

offer $50 $50 how generous you know

Adrian every so often I get the most

delicious I Obsession to shout at the

top of my

voice help and good Lord why don't

you right now yes of course I might even

join

you no it's too silly even with Alexi's

cigarettes I'm not high

enough Alexi you're not high enough

either maybe you poor misunderstood

Nazis need a few gas Chambers to really

turn you on Sheila

oh oh Alexi you're a good sweet man kiss

me do you forgive

me H Hitler God sake she

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help oh one Carlos I'm terribly sorry

I'm always getting my fairy tales mixed

up I meant to cry

wolf well good night everybody I'll see

you in the

morning where will she go

now trouble is she's one of those people

that can never sleep more than 3 hours a

night and all all the years I've known

her that's been the case she left her

first husband because he slept too much

don't used to be our ambassador to the

ha lovely

man what of the other husband Charlie

Thompson oh he was a very quiet very

skillful surgeon he became with Sheila's

help one of our most successful most

distinguished surgeons not only in

England but on the continent as well

she's always been in all the years I've

known her most extraordinarily kind with

an with an almost obsessive need to help

all the men she's ever been

with or punish

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them um uh tomato juice

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please

your coach is outside ladies and

gentlemen would you take your seats

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please and on behalf of Sky tours may I

welcome you aboard our Excursion to

meass the J will take us approximately

45 minutes and we shall be driving along

the main Coastal road which leads down

to Gibralter a short distance along this

road we shall be excuse

me my eyes are all right yes in the

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back

here we have a further view of Mias

originally a moish town uh reconquered

in

1483 by the Catholic Kings Ferdinand and

Isabella and here the Chapel of the

verand delapena who is the patron saint

of

Mias

Mr

canning Fernando told me your name

theci you asked him to find a woman for

you actually I'm on vacation I promised

myself a long rest but I'm running a bit

short my friends down there don't know

that I work

sometimes I've been living kind of a

secret these past few

months well how does Fernando

now he used to work in a London

hotel actually I'd get more in London or

even in Madrid but with 6,000 Peters be

too much

6,000

percenters how much is that about

$100 what's your name

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Sheila I'm in room

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6:15 come on

in

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you're

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pretty well let's go I've got a lot of

things I'd like to get done today

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please

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so you know what I can run an airplane

oh yes I think

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so uh would you um

would you like me to draw the

blinds for sure anything you

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like

no no no you don't need to do any drinks

I'm an

American

say listen I've got a a lot to do today

and I think you better get

dressed did you ever get like that

before first time I've been in Europe

you're really different here aren't they

I mean like people are different

here what's the matter can't you hear me

in there you you dead in there or

something

alive oh

marvous oh Sheil you're a

genius he know that he didn't even kiss

me not

once

no oh

marvelous I'll never spend that 6,000

peret as long as I live no of course not

good Lord what decent woman in a right

mind

would now why ever would a man like that

need that kind of a woman when he could

so easily attain to just about any one

of us so to speak he knows their

price he doesn't know

ours and he's quite right of

course

for I guessed it I just had a

feeling I guessed

it no it can't be it's just not

possible after all these years two

husbands

men and several

psychiatrists Sheila look at

me

it really is a

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miracle good afternoon Mr

Cunningham hey you look happy oh yes yes

I may be going off to Tangier tomorrow

evening Tangier how far is that this in

Africa isn't it mhm why didn't you come

along I'm sure the others wouldn't

mind oh no thanks oh did you find out

about leasing a plane yes well then you

could fly to Tanger it's um less than an

hour away by plane might prove a lovely

flight that's an idea isn't

it yeah maybe I'll do that I I don't

know

well if you don't will you still be here

when I come back it won't be more than

two days well I don't know I'm kind of

moving around a lot I don't have all the

time in the world you know so uh yes

that's true you really ought to see

everything you can while you're here

yeah say

uh can I

uh listen you need money right oh

yeah well the scene you make is a little

too much for

me understand that 6,000 petus is a lot

of money for a man like me and uh I was

wondering that if I'm AER when you get

back we couldn't make some kind of an

arrangement between

us you

know

so

what

happened I think I've just taken a cut

in salary

what

Alexi mhm you have all sorts of um

interests and power haven't

you I want you to have a man

followed wherever he goes if he checks

out of the hotel that is a small enough

request yes but you don't understand

what I mean I mean not just in Toro

Molinos I mean anywhere in the world it

should be

done may I ask why no you may

not Alexi do you like

that then I shall buy it for you I

really think you should have it Alexi

it's a Saint

Teresa one of Spain's most heroic and

martyred

Saints they say she was a Jewish did you

know that it's very well known and not

so odd as it may

seem they say my mother was a saint and

she was a Jewish too did you know that

for

for

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oh Mr

Cunningham Mr

Cunningham

you're being followed yes I can see that

whatever made you decide to come to ten

Sheila said you probably wouldn't but

I'm delighted I found you I'm her friend

yes I know these are my two guides Alexi

insists that I take them about with me

wherever I roam in these mysterious

streets makes me feel terribly important

I'm Adrien Bedford how do you do I'm

John

Cunningham how Mom for

you you may be part of a miracle do you

realize that part of a miracle yes uh

half of one to be precise well I've

never been half a miracle before well

you couldn't have known you were because

she liked to you she lied to you about

what she is does

she's not she

doesn't she's a very remarkable woman

and she Li

to oh I wasn't going to tell you R off I

was going to make believe I was a

Madam it all started as a

joke perhaps all Miracle start a joke

but you'll never get away now you're

being followed

I mean I'm serious she's having you

followed and if she follows you so do I

and then there's Alexi and Maurice and

Lord knows how many others you may not

realize it Mr Cunningham but you've

inherited an entire family now first

that's Maurice my beautiful Maurice he's

aerian or was lost everything to in the

war his property wife all that's left is

his can and he comes with us to places

I'm not getting any younger these little

loves can sober me up faster than

chemicals their hands are the most

skilled in

Africa and then there's

Alexi

Alexi his name's not really Alexi he's

German has lots of stores in Europe and

Africa in America

too to GS of money out of Germany after

the

war he's responsible for the death of

30,000 chipies in those concentration

camps they say but I don't

believe

could Lexi so sweet thoughtful anyway

they found him guilty and he spent six

years in jail after waiting to go on

trial for four years 10 years long now

all he wants to do is to be forgiven and

we do we English forgive our enemies

almost simultaneously with a crime Now

isn't that

marvelous the things they say to

you now there are eloquent men with

eloquent word for every race every Creed

every cult every minority but is there

no one no one who has a good word for us

rich white

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Protestants Shea

hi Mr Cunningham is here what a lovely

dress wherever did you get

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it

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yeah I thought youd talk kind of funny

for a hustler oh we all talk funny like

that in Europe all of us Hustlers mhm

well I flew in from T molinas this

morning I met Adrian in a little square

down the street and uh we had a nice

long walk and we talked

do you have 6,000 to say this Mr cunning

not a penny

less

four

six

three

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I'll

drive uh all

right

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all

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I went sleep for a

while

mhm

I

snore you didn't say did I snore you

said do I

snore isn't that

funny

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yeah otherwise know

say

quite rock asly as a matter of fact no

do

I but you didn't talk in your

sleep I wish you had

what because it's another way of

following

you I want to know

all about you

everything

and I'm going

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to I've mused your clothes haven't

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I you don't know how to

kiss you must be one of the Great lovers

of the world and you don't know how to

kiss no no bad

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interesting I own a bowling

alley a bowling alley a secret bowling

because you're in something secret I

know that I'll bet you work for a big

American firm and you carry immense

responsibility there are foreign

investors invading Spain right now and

trying to keep it a secret Alexi told me

are you going to buy Spain Mr

Cunningham listen if I decide to buy

Spain in

secret you'll be the first to know I

promise why are you so afraid to let me

know you I've never met a man like you

you don't talk about yourself you don't

talk at all unless I beg

you

sing me a lullabi sing me to sleep I

don't know any lullab eyes oh well sing

me a song any song you

know but soft huh I don't know any

songs yes I

do I know a song Marine

hym that what you were a marine mhm that

where you learned how to fly you were a

pilot yep a long time

ago well sing me the song

Softly

see from

the the halls of

monum to the shores of

tripol we will fight our

country's

batt on the land as on the

sea do you believe in God Mr

Cunningham sure I believe in God don't

you right now I believe in

him it lasts for seconds at a time that

belief then I'm positive he doesn't

exist and that lasts for several

seconds and then it may

be maybe he does maybe he doesn't

exist and it changes like that every few

seconds each hour of every

day

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I know all about God my father was in

that business you changed your mind a

lot oh it's not me it's him he moves

around and about

constantly who does

God you didn't used to be that way the

world was Tiny and there were just a few

people but now with all these people and

all those

planets keeps him jumping don't you

see does help to explain him and his

creatures and all the contradictions

doesn't

it

h oh do you feel that

wind

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oh he's gone again always going off oh

well other planets you know worse

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troubles

it's yours thank

you

oh he's

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back

oh look look it's perfect darling look

look do you see it do you see

it oh let me buy it for you

please no hey

no well but it's

perfect just look at it we could we

could just move in and live in it it's

like a little house like a

toy

you're a

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toy well what's the matter whoever it is

it put that spring in you and wound you

up he knew what he was doing probably

the only one in the whole history of

this continent that wasn't an

amateur yeah but what's happening what

did I

do well all I wanted to do

was buy you something I just yeah

anything I feel wonderful and when I

feel wonderful I love to buy

things no no no well maybe we could um

at least exchange gifts it's not I don't

think presumptuous for people who've

been as intimate as we I don't

think

it's the sweetest thing I've ever seen

you'll be delighted you realize I

shouldn't even be talking to you I

apologize look at me no stop what you're

doing and let me have a look at your

face is he still a

ball no I'll go get him and we'll all go

for a drive he's the worst driver in the

world

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for

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he's checked

out Cunningham's

gone he's

gone

d

like

e

thank thank you I just

feel yeah miss you and you speak English

I speak English you willink

beer Brussels will have trouble soon it

will not be stopped so easily as this

trouble yes what language is to be

taught in the school

what language will be spoken in

government French or

flish

flamage they are noisy but if they do

not quiet we who speak French will quiet

them

foree

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spee

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oh

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Jonathan I can hardly hear

you you don't sound good what's the

matter I'm just not working right Ramsey

I've got good news for you listen as

soon as you finish in Brussels you go on

to Madrid CU they've located our number

three and Jonathan I have to tell you

about this fell even though I know your

strict rule about not knowing anything

that's important see can you hear me yes

now this fell used to be you he was

Numero Uno about 20 years ago when

competition was a lot tougher than it is

now but he's been retired for a long

long time listen I sent I sent his photo

in care of general delivery American

Express I don't like it Ramsey I don't

like Brussels I don't like these

countries over here it's a continent for

amateurs it's an amateur

continent what list I can't hear a word

Jonathan how goes it with the women in

Brussels I hear it's renowned for your t

ever since I've been on this amateur

continent I've been with one woman an

amateur what what did you say I said

something's

wrong did you say one

woman

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Jonathan my name is John Cunningham I

believe have some

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mail

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thank

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M you miss you

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please

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for swell miss

you

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for

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yes

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you should not sit down like

that you'll get sick with

school

come we try

again

why should you be so

distressed this happens to many

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men

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oh

graas delicious Mr

fore

fore

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fore

fore

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foree what do you

do

what

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e

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I told you that I would

Sheila I promised and I keep my promises

we found him he's in

Brussels how

much this is the tell he

at they following his every move their

professionals all he not get lost

again you

pleased yes I'm pleased oh God how excit

in do we all go to brush us now and more

or less pop in on him Alexi do you love

me with m

p would you like to marry

me yeah do I have to ask that question a

second time no no

no

yes well then ask me

now will you be mine in marriage

yes

liing just don't ever speak that

cannibal tongue in my presence again

promise me you will never speak German

in front of me again I promise you never

again you will become less and less a

crow and more and more a human

being no you say nothing matters but

love adri and look at him he loves he

can

love look at him Adrian isn't it absurd

he may have begotten his wealth from

human teeth and he loves Sheila I will

not put up with this I absolutely will

not oh I'm sorry I'm sorry I apologize

really Adrien forgive me do do you

forgive me Alexi there is nothing you

can say or do that I do not forgive

automatically you keep at it people keep

at it it happened almost 25 years

ago yes that's true that's

true and you love me and I she'll be

your wife and I'm sorry to be such a

pest Alexa do you have something for us

that we can take some something strong

those pills or cakes from Tangers

something very strong that will make us

feel free and gay and eloquent something

I've never had before this is all

nonsense please don't believe her Alexi

believe me believe in me for I am the

resurrection I believe in you my dear I

know what you're saying then I am yours

Alexi more than I've ever been anyone's

because because you believe in me and

that's all that matters but watch out

for the

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wind should we speak English before we

speak

Spanish

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oh

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w

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w

oh my God Brussels it's Brussels tell

him I'm getting married no wait a minute

wait a minute I'll tell him myself

hello

hello hello hello

hello hello you bastard answer me I know

you're

there hello why did you call

me

please oh please

just grunt or groan or something to let

me know you're there that I'm not crying

into the thin air as

usual tell me where you want

me where are you I'll come there

immediately I'll walk if you

like I'm going to Madrid

tomorrow and may God have mercy on your

soul to say the

least

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you know if we had two

children and they each had two children

and every 25 years a

generation each child had two children

you know how many children that be in a

thousand

years no how

many

52 billion 512 billion billion that's

no let see are you sure yeah the

generation is 25 years and there are

four generations in a century that means

there are 40 Generations in a thousand

years

right I suppose so that means we have to

go 40 times now

one 2 4 8 16 32 64 128

256 512 1,24 will eliminate the 24 makes

it easy to count 2,000 4,000 8,000

16,000 32,000

64,8

256,000 512,000 1, 24,000

24,000 2 milon 4 million 8 milon 16

million 32 million 64 million 128 milon

256 mil 512 million 1 billion 2 44 2

billion 4 billion billion 16 billion 32

billion 64 billion 128 billion 256

billion 500 and 12 billion no wait it's

actually it's actually more it's 1

trillion 24 men

billion and it'd be all on this

planet what other planet

maybe they all walk past each other

never

know these

strangers now tell me why do they

escalate the bombing or I just simply

don't understand well it's a

misunderstanding of some sort probably

mace now don't start with your

probabilties Alexi forbid him to drown

me in his French probbies I forbid you

Maurice

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e my

God

a my

dear Alexi morice this is one of my

oldest and dearest friends and I haven't

seen an H well I have forgotten your

married name how long has it been

Carlson how do you do I hate to think it

must be 10 years 10 years oh it's been

much longer no Michael and I have been

here 10 years we have ared just a little

way out of Madrid we met in London just

previous to our coming here don't you

remember and you've been in Madrid for

10 years however did you manage that

it's quite Pleasant really Michael and I

adore it we have the grandchild off the

time

H be careful

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child you needn't worry

Adrian you don't look a day

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older

you remember my husband yes of course

Adrian Adrien Bedford oh but that's

extraordinary we actually only met once

and that was 10 years ago he has a

fantastic memory yes a fantastic home oh

this is mon Al oh this is Maurice L and

Alexi

craft oh oh no no I I shouldn't be

talking to you running over away from

home like this this is Sheila Meda and

this is John Cunningham monor ala Mr and

Mrs car oh I have a surprise for

you here what is this is my birthday

yeah open it I think you like it quite

unusual I got it in 10 years just

couldn't resist it what uh it's the

goddess for miracles and love I would

have given it to you at the PE part you

disappear oh have you been at the p p in

Talos yes we have been there for one

month did you know Mr Bartell who was

staying there he was a very old friend a

very dear friend of Michaels he suddenly

disappeared does he play cards always

yes that's right oh but I know him oh is

he the one that suddenly vanish Into

Thin Air yes what but Maurice played

cars with him all the time he was a very

dear friend of my husband and the awful

thing is that just a few days ago we

heard that another old friend who got

involved in this ridiculous riot in

Brussels fell or was thrown out of a

window and died all this in just one

week Jonathan you went to Brussels

didn't you what was that Riot about did

you see any part of it I no isn't it

amazing and terrible how these things

happen all at once I mean Michael had

known both these men for over 20 years

is an end

suddenly now don't say anymore because

it's bad luck these things always come

in

threes did you know I was in Brussels

before I

called I saw you go into that building

come out

again 17 years for 17 years no one is

no now there's uh you and Alexi and

Maurice perhaps why what about Adrian

does she

know no no Adrian but there's all those

men that Alexi hired how many were there

do you

know what did they

do please tell

me do you love some ideal your country

anything so much that you would kill for

it or die for

it are you are you a a communist or a

capitalist or a monarchist what what

just tell me something that's

acceptable a

family we don't have to

wait thousand years we have 512 billion

in a

month tell me that you killed for

freedom and the Dignity of man just give

me anything that's

acceptable I

can't

oh oh course I should have known I

should have guessed no matter how I

begged you you could never tell me of

your Allegiance no no no it doesn't

matter it doesn't matter you you still

don't trust me and I can't blame you but

but I promise you that whatever side

you're on whatever side I'll help you is

it something against these fascists here

I hope so now let's get dressed and go

to

dinner

will you ladies excuse

me

what are you doing here Ramy

Jonathan you look great it's a beautiful

suit you're staying here at the what's

the matter with you the truth is you

worried me a

bit I worried you on the phone from

Brussels you spoke about a woman one

woman of course I see it was only my

imagination but are you staying here at

this hotel Ry yeah well unless you

disappear we don't have a contract what

I don't work with you or anybody else

around me now that's the contract you're

breaking it a now be a friend let me

stay you know I haven't had a vacation

in a long time and things are and a

hectic back in the stat it's

perfect what I said I'm never wrong

you're always wrong Ramsey never Sheila

this is an old friend of mine Ramsey

Williams Sheila metat how do you do I'm

delighted you forgive me for staring at

you but you're something out of a

fantasy I had 30 years

ago did I behave myself in my fantasy in

your fantasy well as I remembered you

misbehaved a little I'm sorry friends

out meeting friends it's a good sign

this is a friend of Jonathan's Mr

Williams this is Mrs Bedford and Mrs

Carlson well I didn't know he had any

friends this should be very interested I

want to know everything about him every

detail as shall I warn you be relentless

Mr Williams and you must swear to be

terribly Indiscreet give away all

confidences I swear

it why don't we start at once if suffer

with us I'd be

delighted you know I haven't been in

this oversized PUO Madrid and over 30

years were you in their Civil War yes I

was on The Winning Side on the losing

side in fact that was one of the main

reasons they

lost oh this is Mr Williams a friend of

Jonathan's just arrived he's having

supper with us now this is Alexi and

this is Maurice and this is Mr

Carlson I have a feeling Carlson is on

to me as soon as he saw me before I

opened my mouth he was on to me he was a

great one as great as you in his Heyday

Jonathan when can you complete this

contract we don't have a contract R she

get somebody else it's

impossible I

know you get Carlson and you can be with

her you're

out if I get you I'm out ever think of

that but you will say that they uh

they're a miracle those

two could you tell me why oh I couldn't

Poss who that would be terribly

Indiscreet well if you are U terribly

Indiscreet I shall be terribly

Indiscreet you're a wicked man Ramsey

Williams you'll be punished no

absolutely

not see there's no such thing

as punishment

anymore I know I've studied it many

years in the uh

University how marvelous punishment and

crime are you a

criminologist certainly not there's no

such thing as crime

anymore it's something else

now oh but the world is changing R it's

not

changing

changed for instance we used to make the

act of murder a frightening visual

experience but it's it's not frightening

anymore we to kill a man to see a man

kill why we're

immune and because of newspapers and

television and other media we experience

on a kind of 24 hours a day basis

without her knowing it we experience

thousands of murders a day and after

thousands of days thousands of murders

per day we become accustomed you see to

the murder of

millions of the little board and so

now now we are psychologically

prepared for the murder of tens of

millions hello Goya she Ramsey's been

he's been teasing me about crime and

murder honestly Ramsey a man like that a

murderer wouldn't he be sick oh no no no

of course not oh maybe 35 years ago he

sick but it's no longer necessary a lot

has happened in 35 years he he's not

anymore but you know as well as H RS you

that a murderer a man like that what he

does it's immoral of course it's immoral

I mean so murder for profit is immoral

it's just that in these times it's not

that immoral are you trying to say that

it's not wrong no definitely not that

would be insane at worst it be

philosophically adolescent at v no it is

wrong I'm simply saying that in our time

it's not that wrong but it's ridiculous

I mean it's just not true what he's

saying is

it no Adrian it's not

true it's just that it's not that

untrue yeah I heard uh about the miracle

and about them following you and I

thought well I wanted to see if she knew

she doesn't but yours does doesn't she

yeah maybe they all know what yeah the

family what yeah maybe the whole goddamn

family knows

Ramy

well Hy n what do you think of it you

like

it

yeah really

beautiful how many acres do you have oh

about

600

you know

Farms I was brought up in farm country

tobacco

mostly how long ago was

that long than I care to

remember hey you're just a young

one where did you get to be my

age now I left a farm in Wisconsin

during the second world war and I

haven't been back since yeah it's more

or less the same for me except it was

the Korean conflict

it's funny isn't

it what well I lost my youth in one war

you lost yours in another

one I wonder what it' be like if we lost

a

war be the

same you know know that I never read a

book until I was 40 years old that was

15 years

ago first one I read took me a

year after I got through that one well

it's been

easier now I don't think two weeks go by

but I don't finish another

book so you see Cunningham if you'd met

me 15 years ago I everything would have

been

different what happened 15 years ago

nothing special

happened it just came to an end I

stopped

why where'd you stop I didn't plan

it it just happened it's a day-to-day

thing anyway you know you put a few

hundred days together one at a time and

it's a

year then it's two

three after five years while you find

yourself looking back at all the days

you went through the motions of not then

after 10 years you don't have to look

back anymore you look

ahead you know you couldn't go through

those old motions again for

anything you're the same person but it

stopped you don't do it

anymore not for

anything what about

her

Evelyn

did

Cho well I don't think

so what do you

mean well I mean we've been together a

long time she

might when you

stopped do you have enough

money well that had nothing to do with

it nothing at

all but did

you

yes you

know religion and uh and all the great

books of every

country oh you'll have to uh forgive me

Cunningham but at my age with

grandchildren while you think about all

kinds of

things there's one thing that none of

them

know not even your friend

ramsy they're always going on about this

fight between good and

evil and it's made out to be some kind

of wild rough and tumbled battle to the

end between two Champion

equals a great

fight I suppose they make it out that

way so it'll be more

interesting but evil is a giant good is

when evil takes a

rest good is a rest

period there's no

fight listen to me gunning

H I saw you look at that

woman I saw the

woman I can be a part of

it I can be a part of it but it's just

the first part of it

murder is like going through a

barrier or a tunnel or or to the other

side once you've gone through it you're

past

it nothing could make me go again

but there's no one in the world you

couldn't Force to do

it for hate for love for self-defense

for money

country something somewhere there's no

one but I'll never

again for any

reason I know

that not even to Def defend

yourself

no your

wife

no

your

grandchildren

no you don't believe

me no there's never been that long a

rest period for any man who's ever lived

no

one ah yes there has

I've had 15

years unbelievably

beautiful

perfect I'm an old man I'm saying old

man

things I'm

sorry I tell you what I'm going to do

I'm going to make it easy for you

what I said I uh I'm not

sure so you'd better be on your guard

Cunningham because it's a it's a

day-to-day thing isn't

it and I've just been setting you up all

this time hav't

I you know I used to be pretty good at

it probably better than

you probably I I'm still better than

you

I see at the

house of course you never know what'll

happen until it actually

happens no no I'm sure once you're done

with it you're done with it the answer

is perfectly

clear not even for them could

I I guess anybody think I didn't love

them

enough

Carson there's never been that long a

rest period in the history of the

world it's

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question

is we murdered enough to get past it

what oh it's an amateur continent here

Ramsey Jesus you just get old Numero Uno

and get it overwear what do you want me

to do go out and buy a gun stick it in

his face I'm not going to do that

neither was he you know

it you can go out and uh draft some kids

to do

it thousands of fine young amateurs that

you can get

for far less than you're paying

me come along you two we're going to a

gypsy

wedding you know is as well as I

do that if you don't I have to get

somebody who

will yeah I

know not only to get him to get

you I

know what about the

others you can marry

her can I marry them

all you marry her you Mar

all let's all go in one car or let's be

together one big family I'm sure we can

all put our ex's car oh yes I'm sure of

it come along all of you come along

please

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Alexi I think I'd better drive otherwise

I don't think I'll be able to

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go sure you got enough room Ramy I'm

positive it's nice to see a man who's

positive about anything these days

why do you want to listen to the radio

on such a beautiful day no he cannot

accept the fact this world may come to

an end without Assurance from Radio

Frankfurt the world in Maurice is only

just beginning all we need do is to look

back on the things we once believed in

when we were young and strong and then

everything will be all right you know

Adan with a possible exception of you m

Tong and a few Republicans in my country

nobody in the world believes

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that straining for every scrap of

News why don't you give up these mere

facts what should I stress it fiction

fiction is much better for people EVN

remember how acious for used to be about

novels in the old days I stopped reading

fiction when I could no longer identify

with a young

lover

these roads in Spain were built for 60

km an

hour after that it becomes

hazardous Mr

Cunningham these Spanish roads are not

like your American roads you can't

anticipate

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K what's the matter with you speing on a

look like this is

insane there's no

guarantee it's sloppy very slopp Cy

speeding like

this anything can happen or not happen

or half

happen this is Spain

Cunningham not

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Dixie

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what happened why didn't

you I just went through the motion

of not ah you could have got rid of all

of us it's perfect everyone who knew

could connect you but you were

free

Dare it's a moment to moment

thing be damn

what it's obsolete Ramy what murder

murder is obsolete maybe you I'm an

oldfashioned man with some oldfashioned

Debs why don't you write me a letter

when death is obsolete it's all obsolete

everything is

obsolete how do you think bitching got

so

big

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what

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I couldn't be

sure I'd get out of lie where that any

of you no it doesn't make any difference

you know what reasons you give yourself

for stopping just so long as you

stop you'll be making up different

reasons as you go along three opposite

ones a

day all

valid doesn't

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matter

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what's happening what are they all doing

to both

honor the newly married couple and make

sure that they get started in the right

direction why they as well as other

couples who wish to join them run away

you see to be alone to find a private

place to uh laugh and cry and make love

together because to cry and make love

together is as close to as you can get

oh

how and now what we Elders are supposed

to do is to get into those wagons and

follow after them because you see

marriage to attain Grace must always be

lived as if it would be found out and

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broken come on let's make a run for

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it

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I'll go with you for 6,000 for nothing

higher than a [ __ ] bitching the rest is

obol oh it's a

miracle there's no such thing as a

miracle I know that's what's so

miraculous

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you still want to

fight

no want to see if we get away with it

yes I'm so proud of our group there's no

one like us we're different oh yes we're

different but we are not that

different

dear

Ramy Let's Fall In Love what are you

afraid of Ry what are you afraid of

please lie to me okay how's this I work

for the government and I didn't tell you

before because I'm allowed to tell

anybody oh yes the job I do is more

important than that lie with the human

yes lie to me it's the whole world

that's at stake oh yes please lie to me

defend the free people of the world

against

communism Adas goodbye Adas goodbye bye

bye

goodbye how much can I kill even for

the freedom and the Dignity of man more

more more more more you may not know it

but freedom and the Dignity of man may

become the greatest murderers of

C mergency

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watch and

see

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