i> - Bye. I love you. - Bye. - May I take your coat, madam? - Thank you. You are Carol. Carol Bennell, this is Dr. Henryk Belicec and his wonderful wife, Luddie. Come here and let me see you. Ben has told us a lot about you. Let us go in. Dinner will be ready soon. Now, you two sit with us. We want some real people around us tonight. - Something's wrong with my dad. - Yeah. Mine too. - Dad? - In here, Oliver. I'm making some hot chocolate. Would you like some hot chocolate? So Ben tells me that you are a psychiatrist. This is very interesting. This is exactly what I need. You need what every Czech needs: a stiff Russian boot up your behind. Pity they don't make Russian boots anymore. They're all made in China. You seat me beside a beautiful woman without introducing me, and you insult me. Oh, don't let him get started, Henyo. I'm sorry, Yorish. My humblest apologies. You have the honor of meeting one of Washington's most notorious diplomats. My friend and the source of this exquisite caviar... ...Russian Ambassador Yorish Kaganovich. - Nice to meet you, ambassador. - The pleasure is entirely mine. Henryk's guests are usually as old and as ugly as I am. I beg to differ. No one's as ugly as you are, Yorish. You know what "Czechoslovakia" means in Russian, doctor? It means a "doormat." Someone still speaks Russian? I thought it was a dead language. My cheeky friend and I pretend to enjoy ourselves, but secretly we are rivals... ...exploiting each other for personal gain. I am here to drink his champagne... ...and he invites me because I can get the real caviar. A veneer of civility hides our true self-interests. It's the nature of our world, yes? Yorish, be good. I'm only curious. I say that civilization is an illusion, a game of pretend. What is real is the fact that we are still animals, driven by primal instincts. As a psychiatrist... ...you must know this to be true. To be honest, ambassador, when someone starts talking to me about the truth... ...I hear what they tell me about themselves... ...more than what they say about the world. - Quite right. Well done. - Perhaps you are right. Perhaps being a Russian in this country is a kind of pathology. So, what do you think? Can you help me? Can you give me a pill? To make me see the world the way you Americans see the world? Can a pill help me understand Iraq, or Darfur, or even New Orleans? Don't be drawn in by his madness, doctor. He is Russian. He needs to argue like he needs to breathe. All I am saying is that civilization crumbles whenever we need it most. In the right situation... ...we are all capable of the most terrible crimes. To imagine a world where this was not so... ...where every crisis did not result in new atrocities... ...where every newspaper is not full of war and violence... Well, this is to imagine a world where human beings cease to be human. While I'll give you that we still retain some basic animal instincts... ...you must admit we're not the same animal we were a few thousand years ago. - True. - Read Piaget or Kohlberg... ...or Maslow, Graves, Wilber, and you'll see we're still evolving. Our consciousness is changing. Five hundred years ago, postmodern feminists didn't exist... ...yet one sits right beside you today. While that fact may not undo all the terrible things that have been done in this world... ...at least it gives me reason to believe one day things may be different. - Thank you, doctor. - You're welcome, ambassador. Excellent. Ben, of all the women you've brought into our home... ...this is the one we permit you to marry. Hey, now, look. I've been watching the way you look at each other. - Oh, so beautiful and smart. - You see, this is what happens. They say what they like in this household, and then they claim diplomatic immunity. - Think of the children you could have. - Enough. Enough. I had a ------------------------------ Читайте также: - текст Странствия сердца на английском - текст Чудеса своего рода на английском - текст ...Три синих-синих озера малинового цвета... на английском - текст Слава на английском - текст Онг-Банк: Тайский Воин на английском |