1:42:05
I told them who I was.
1:42:07
The old man was hostlle, the glrl cautlous.
1:42:12
My brother...
1:42:15
...seemed very pleased.
1:42:21
I thlnk the glrl was the only one
who guessed at thelr posltlon.
1:42:26
You're just as I imagined you.
You're my political conscience.
1:42:29
I asked hlm hadn't he one of hls own.
1:42:32
And so he talked about the Revolutlon.
1:42:34
You lay life on a table and you cut out
all the tumors of injustice. Marvelous.
1:42:39
I told hlm If he felt llke that
he shouldjoln the Party.
1:42:42
Cutting out the tumors of injustice,
that's a deep operation.
1:42:46
Someone must keep life alive
while you do it.
1:42:48
By living.
1:42:50
Isn't that right?
1:42:52
I thought then It was wrong.
1:42:54
He told me what he thought
about the Party and I trembled for hlm.
1:42:58
He approved of us, but for reasons
whlch were subtle, llke hls verse.
1:43:03
Approval such as hls
could vanlsh overnlght.
1:43:06
I told hlm so.
1:43:07
Of course, I can't approve this evening
something you may do tomorrow.
1:43:11
He was walklng about wlth a noose
round hls neck and dldn't know.
1:43:15
So I told hlm what I had heard
about hls poems.
1:43:21
Not liked?
1:43:24
Not liked by whom?
1:43:27
Why not liked?
1:43:28
So I told hlm that.
1:43:39
Do you think it's "personal,
petit-bourgeois and self indulgent"?
1:43:44
I lled.
1:43:46
But he belleved me.
1:43:48
And It struck me through to see
that my oplnlon mattered.
1:43:54
The glrl knew what It meant,
what It was golng to mean.
1:43:56
They couldn't survlve
what was comlng In the clty.