花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
Yes yes yes . . . of course! It makes total sense. Just . . . open the doors, open the pens and let them go!
2017-03-31 13:23:07
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
(back to his mirror) Then do it, Pavel. Now? Yes. Now! What are you waiting for?
2017-03-31 13:32:31
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
All right, all right. Hold your horses while I think about my pigs. 📌 Your suggestion might be simple, but that doesn't mean it's easy.
2017-03-31 13:53:22
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
📎 It involves me ending a relationship that has survived decades of filth and nonsense and mutual abuse.
2017-03-31 13:54:42
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
I can't just turn my back on it and walk away as if it all meant nothing. p.143
2017-03-31 14:01:05
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
All right. all right. (A terrified Pavel obeys orders. His first move is to throw open the doors to the outside world.
2017-03-31 14:08:48
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
He then goes around the pens, waking up the pigs.) Wake up! Wake up! (kicking and rattling boards) Come on! It's all over.
2017-03-31 14:12:25
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
Your hour of liberation has come. The Commissar has ordered your immediate and unconditional release.
2017-03-31 14:16:22
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
Pig noises increase in volume and agitation as the animals stir into life.
2017-03-31 14:20:44
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
All of you . . . onto your trotters . . . Can't you smell it? Freedom! Now out . . . out . . . out . . .
2017-03-31 14:23:29
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
Praskovya appears. Nightgown and lamp. A few stunned seconds as the two of them listen to the virginal silence in the sty.
2017-03-31 14:27:54
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
Praskovya sits down next to Pavel. Prsakovya (whisper) It's like being in church,isn't it? pic.twitter.com/GhYZwoXeUG
2017-03-31 14:38:56
拡大
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
Praskovya ) I never thougt it could ever feel like this in here. All the years and years of shouting and violence . . . just gone!
2017-03-31 14:44:41
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
Pavel ) You're awake, Praskovya. Praskovya ) It's really all over? Pavel ) Yes. Praskovya ) How did you do it? Pavel )✂ I obeyed orders.
2017-03-31 14:52:18
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
Praskovya ) What do you mean? Orders from who? Pavel (pointing mirror) Him. ‘The Commissar’!
2017-03-31 14:59:25
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
📌 Don't ask me where he came from or what he was doing in here. A good soldier, which I never was, doesn't ask questions.
2017-03-31 15:03:07
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
He just obeys orders. They were very simple. ‘Open the doors, open the pens and let them go.’ p.145
2017-03-31 15:08:29
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
Praskovya ) Just like that? Pavel ) Just like that. Praskovya ) You've just chased our livelihood out into the night . . .
2017-03-31 15:29:13
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
our only source of income . . . our one and only security . . . we sit here on the brink of ruin and all I want to do is laugh.
2017-03-31 15:36:24
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
Pavel ) Go ahead. You're allowed to do that in church, aren't you? Praskovya ) Oh, yes . . . and as loud as you like.
2017-03-31 15:44:03
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
(wiping her eyes) Oh, Pavel, I'm so proud of you! I would never have had the imagination or the courage to do it.
2017-03-31 15:47:43
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
Pavel ) Imagination? Courage? Who are you talking about, praskovya? Praskovya ) You. Pavel (shaking his head) It wasn't like that at all.
2017-03-31 15:57:56
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
📌 It was exhaustion that did it. Total and final mental, physical and spiritual exhaustion.
2017-03-31 16:02:48
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
I had to do something, and that was all I could think of. Praskovya ) This is no time for modesty, Pavel.
2017-03-31 16:06:31
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
With that one bold move you have freed us. Let me confess to you now that I had finally given up all hope of us ever escaping from it.
2017-03-31 16:10:52
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
I had come to believe that only death would end our misery . . . and I was more than ready for mine.
2017-03-31 16:19:27
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
But instead, here we sit like two ordinary people with nothing better to do. I don't know about you, but I feel a little lightheaded
2017-03-31 16:27:03
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
and silly . . . silly enough in fact to want to sing a little song . . . Pavel ) A song! That's right! People . . . sing, don't they?
2017-03-31 16:31:10
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
Praskovya ) When they're happy, but sometimes also when they're sad. Mine would have been a happy song.
2017-03-31 16:35:08
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
Pavel ) But I won't hide away in your dress this time. I'm going out there as myself. (a helpless gesture) I didn't know it was coming.
2017-03-31 16:46:32
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
I thought I was just getting rid of the pigs so that I could have a little peace and quiet in here. I wanted to close my eyes and sleep
2017-03-31 16:50:38
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
more than I've wanted anything in my whole life. But when they started stampeding through those doors to their freedom . . . !!!
2017-03-31 16:56:07
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
God, Praskovya, it was epic! The stuff of history. I wanted to join them. Praskovya ) You are going to surrender to the authorities?
2017-03-31 17:01:35
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
Pavel ) Yes. It's a crooked fate that ties up a man's freedom and his surrender in the same bundle, but I've got no choice.
2017-03-31 17:07:40
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
It's been a long loneliness in here. I've forgotten what it means, what it feels like to look into another man's eyes . . .
2017-03-31 17:13:19
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
or to be looked at by them. I'm still frightened . . . but there is something else now as well and it's bigger than my fear . . .
2017-03-31 17:17:04
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
I'm homesick, Praskovya, for other men and women.📌 I don't belong in here. Even if my punishment turns out to be a firing squad . . .
2017-03-31 17:23:04
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
those man, looking at me down the barrels of their guns, will be ‘home’ in a way this sty could never have been.
2017-03-31 17:27:10
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
Praskovya ) So then let's do it. I'll get you something to wear. It's a pity we can't take on that walk to Barabinsk. I'm ready for it now.
2017-03-31 17:33:22
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
The graffiti on the walls catches his attention. He takes a rag and tries to clean it off.
2017-03-31 17:41:57
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
Praskovya comes back with Pavel's black wedding suit. Pavel ) My God. That goes back a few years. Is it still wearable? pic.twitter.com/ySYHHRWv9T
2017-03-31 17:52:15
拡大
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
Praskovya ) Oh, yes. After all that drama we had about your uniform, I've made a point of looking after this very carefully.
2017-03-31 17:56:34
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
I had a feeling you might need it again one day. Pavel starts to change into the suit. Pavel ) I'm not just a common criminal, Praskovya.
2017-03-31 18:01:08
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
As I remember it, the Military Manual listed desertion as one of the most serious offences a soldier could commit.
2017-03-31 18:07:28
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
I'll hand myself over at the military barracks. (He is now dressed.) Come . . . let's go.
2017-03-31 18:10:37
花びんに水をدعونا نملأ المزهرية بالماء☘️
@chokusenhikaeme
Praskovya ) If it`s any consolation, I think we're in time for the sunrise you missed yesterday. They leave the sty. p.148
2017-03-31 18:14:25