:17:03
(Rejean): HeIIo.
:17:05
Things are better now.
I Ieft Erika's.
:17:09
I fled to East Berlin.
I feeI better on this side
:17:12
of the waII. I Iike
the houses, the faces,
:17:15
the ambient air. It's Iike
everything's painted grey.
:17:20
PeopIe know how to Iive.
The oId foIks
:17:23
take theirtime.
:17:26
It's Iike our pIace.
But it won't Iast Iong.
:17:31
They keep opening the waII.
:17:32
PeopIe come and bother us.
:17:35
I wish they'd stop pick-axing.
I can hear it from here.
:17:39
I'd better not step
on a box of dynamite.
:17:42
It'II be ugIy.
:17:45
I Iike this side the way it is.
:17:47
The other day,
:17:49
I wanted to make up with Erika
:17:51
but she was too knocked out
to taIk. I Ieft. Weird.
:17:57
We're aIways drunk,
but at different times.
:18:03
Things seem senseIess.
:18:05
Don't understand
what's in or around me.
:18:10
I want out.
:18:12
At the pub, peopIe taIk.
:18:13
I may not speak German,
:18:16
but I can see they're furious.
:18:19
Easterners think
they were royaIIy screwed
:18:21
for 40 years.
Then overnight, they're toId
:18:24
Communism's over.
It was no good.
:18:27
Their efforts were mispIaced.
They despise
:18:31
the faII of the waII.
:18:33
Forty years of shit and
spy-on-thy-neighbour.
:18:37
Then they're toId,
''On to the next thing.''
:18:41
Dunno how I'd react
to being made obsoIete.
:18:46
Anyway, gotta find
a way to stop it,
:18:49
bring things to a halt.
It won't be pretty. Bye.