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J: I feel ashamed to be your friend.

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You’re very hard on me.

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J: I’ve every reason to be.

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Listen, Jean. There are so few distractions in this town - I get so bored. I’m not made for the work I’m doing - every day at the office, eight hours a day - and only three weeks’ holiday a year. When Saturday night comes round I feel exhausted and so - you know how it is - just to relax…

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J: Willpower, my good man.

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But everybody hasn’t got as much willpower as you have. I just can’t get used to it. I just can’t get used to life.

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J: Or do you consider yourself some superior being?

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I don’t pretend to be…

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J: If you can remember.

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We were celebrating Auguste’s birthday, our friend Auguste -

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J: Nobody invited me to our friend Auguste’s birthday.

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I couldn’t refuse. It wouldn’t have been nice.

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J: Did I go there?

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Well, perhaps it was because you weren’t invited.

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A: Well, of all things.

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It certainly looked as if it was a rhinoceros. It made plenty of dust.

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P: Look after these gentlemen.

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What did I think of what?

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W: What are you drinking?

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Cognac.

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J: Well, what did you think about it?

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Well - nothing - it made a lot of dust.

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J: You’re incorrigible!

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I asked for mineral water. She’s made a mistake. (pause) The dust’s settled.

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J: I just can’t get over it!

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Yes, I can see you can’t. Well it was a rhinoceros - all right so it was a rhinoceros. It’s miles away by now - miles away.

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J: Put your hand in front of your mouth.

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Yais, yais it shouldn’t be allowed. It’s dangerous. I hadn’t realised. But don’t worry about it, it won’t get us here.

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J: What’s the council there for?

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Oh, excuse me. Perhaps the rhinoceros escaped from the zoo.

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J: You’re daydreaming.

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But I’m wide awake.

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J: Awake or asleep, it’s the same thing.

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But there is some difference.

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J: That’s not the point.

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But you just said being awake and being asleep were the same thing…

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J: …between dreaming awake and dreaming asleep.

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I do dream. Life is a dream.

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J: …escaped from the zoo-

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I only said - perhaps.

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J: …ages ago.

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Then perhaps it came from a circus.

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J: What circus are you talking about?

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I don’t know, some travelling circus.

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J: …since we were children.

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In that case, maybe it’s been hiding ever since in the surrounding swamps.

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J: …thick haze of alcohol.

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That’s very true. It seems to mount from my stomach.

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J: ...the land is so arid.
How do I know, then? Perhaps it's been hiding under a stone. Or maybe it's been nesting on some withered branch.
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J: You're incapable of talking seriously
Today yes, only today, because of - because of...
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J: ...any other day.
Oh, not quite as much.
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J: ...not very inspired.
I wasn't trying to be... I never said it wasn't't dangerous to let a rhinoceros go racing about the town. I simply said I'd personally never considered the danger. It had never crossed my mind.
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J: You never consider anything.
All right, I agree. A rhinoceros roaming about is not a good thing.
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J: It shouldn't be allowed.
I agree. It shouldn't be allowed. It's ridiculous. But it's no reason for you and me to quarrel. Why go on at me just because some wretched perissodactyl happens to pass by? A stupid quadruped not worth talking about. And ferocious into the bargain. And which has already disappeared - which doesn't exist any longer. Let's talk about something else, Jean, please. There are plenty of other subjects for discussion. To you.
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J: You're not to drink it.
There's no point in leaving it for the proprietor.
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J: I tell you.
Very well. Oh, there's Daisy.
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J: How clumsy you are!
That's Daist - I'm so sorry - I don't want her to see me in this state.
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J: ...that young girl?
Oh, be quiet, please be quiet.
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J: ...unpleasant person.
I must apologise once more for -
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J: ...you're destroying yourself.
I don't like the taste of alcohol much. And yet if I don't drink, I'm done fore; it's as if I'm frightened, and so I drink not to be frightened any longer.
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J: ...of what?
I don't know exactly. It's a sort of anguish, difficult to describe. I feel out of place in life, among people, and so I take to drink. That calms me down, and relaxes me so I can forget.
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J: ...from yourself.
I'm so tired. I've been tired for years. It's exhuasting to drag the weight of my own body about.
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J: ...drinker's gloom.
I'm conscious of my body all the time, as if it were made of lead, or as if I were carrying another man around on my back. I can't seem to get used to myself. I don't even know if I am me. Then as soon as I take a drink, the lead slips away and I recognise myself, I become me again.
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OG: No harm done.
You certainly are strong.
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L: Then it's a cat.
I've barely got the strength to go on living. Maybe I don't even want to.
42
L: ...also true.
Solitude seems to press me. And so does the company of other people.
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L: ...not abused.
Life is an abnormal business.
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J: ...go on living.
There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.
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J: ...that doesn't exist.
I sometimes wonder if I exist myself.
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J: ...somebody who does.
Who?
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OG: I'm all ears.
In any case, I think she's already got her eye on someone.
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J: Oh, who?
Dudard. An office colleague, qualified in law, with a big future in the firm - and in Daisy's affections. I can't hope to compete with him.
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L: ..the hypothesis.
The chief thinks a lot of him. Whereas I've no future, I've no qualifications. I don't stand a chance.
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J: ...just like that?
What else can I do?
51
L: ...it all depends.
What can I do? I've nothing to put up a fight with.
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OG: ...many aspects.
Where can I find the weapons?
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J: ...through your own will.
What weapons?
54
J: ...up to the mark.
How do I get myself up to the mark?
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OG: That's not so easy.
That's not so easy.
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OG: ...but not for me.
It may be simple for you, but not for me.
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OG: I don't see how.
I really don't see how.
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J: ...put on a clean shirt.
The laundry's so expensive.
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L: Tell me.
Then what do I do? Tell me.
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L: I'm listening.
I'm listening.
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J: ...without talent.
I've got talent, me?
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OG: ...the other two.
I get so little spare time.
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J: ...find time.
It's too late now.
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J: ...free time constructively.
How do you mean?
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J: ...cultured man.
You're right!
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J: ...Ionesco's plays?
Unfortunately no. I've only heard people talk about them.
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OG: ...with six paws.
It would be an excellent initiation into the artistic life of our times. (pause) Instead of drinking, I'll develop my mind. I feel better already. My head already feels clearer!
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J: You see!
This afternoon I'll go to the museum. And I'll book two seats for the theatre this evening. Will you come with me?
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OG: ...Justice.
I promise you, and I promise myself. WIll you come to the museum with me this afternoon?
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OG: ...aspect of logic.
But you will come with me to the theatre this evening.
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J: ...for a drink.
For a drink?
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OG: ...catch mice.
Ah, now it's you that's setting me a bad example. You're going out drinking.
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J: ...the same thing at all.
Why isn't it the same thing?
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L: ...in its nature.
I didn't mean you were a drunkard. But why would it make me one any more than you, in a case like that?
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L: What did you say?
What about me - what did you say?
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OG: Oh, a rhinoceros.
Rhinoceros! In the opposite direction!
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D: Oh, a rhinoceros!
Oh, Daisy!

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