Les Bas-fonds
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1:04:16
I dreamed I was fishing
and caught a huge bream.

1:04:22
It must've weighed five pounds.
1:04:24
A real dream fish.
And then -

1:04:27
And then your line broke,
and you woke up.

1:04:31
And the bream was Vassilissa.
1:04:34
No, she makes me sick.
1:04:36
Everything here makes me sick.
1:04:38
Everything you touch is filthy.
1:04:43
The mattress, the pots -
everything's rotten.

1:04:45
The feelings, even the words you say -
covered in lice, cockroaches and slime.

1:04:49
Fishing for bream
didn't work out so well.

1:04:51
Next time,
dream about a different fish.

1:04:55
And Nastia with her Gaston,
and the actor with his organism.

1:04:59
I’m tired of listening to them.
1:05:01
I need a change.
I’m sick and tired of them.

1:05:05
Are you tired of me?
1:05:07
Of course not, you're different.
You don't lie.

1:05:10
You don't go on
about why you're here.

1:05:12
That'd be hard to do.
I don't know how I got here.

1:05:17
There's a kind of fog in my noggin.
1:05:21
When I look back, it seems
all I did was change uniforms.

1:05:25
First the schoolboy,
then the student.

1:05:29
I’ve forgotten everything
I ever learned at the university.

1:05:33
I got married, wore a tailcoat,
then a dressing gown.

1:05:38
What was the point?
1:05:41
I wore the uniform of
a government official and grew poorer.

1:05:47
My clothes became
more and more threadbare.

1:05:49
Finally I wear these,
the last of the line.

1:05:54
And it all seems like a dream.
1:05:57
Isn't it absurd?

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