Character:
1. Frank Smith
只要有你那英2. Claude Frere
3. Carl Boulanger
4. 文彩媛男友Francois Millet
5. House Owner
6. Reporter
请回答1988插曲7. Priest
Play 1
[1.3.4are sitting at the table, talking and laughing.2 walk close to them and find a seat]
2: Boys, we've come to the end. Do you understand that?--absolutely to the end. Everybody has struck--there's a league formed against us. I've been all around the village and it's just as I tell you. They refuse to credit us for another centime until all the odds and ends are paid up.
[a long silence]
4[with a sigh]: Nothing occurs to me--nothing. Suggest something, lads.
[No response, unless a mournful silence may be called a response. ]
3 [got up, and walked nervously up and down a while]: "It's a shame! Look at these canvases: stacks and stacks of as good pictures as anybody in Europe paints--I don't care who he is. Yes, and plenty of lounging strangers have said the same--or nearly that, anyway.
4:But didn’t buy.
2: "No matter, they said it; and it's true, too. Look at your 'Angelus' there! Will anybody tell me—
4: Pah, Carl--My 'Angelus!' I was offered five francs for it.
1:When?
3:Where?
2:Who offered it?
1,2,我们都是大导演3:Why didn’t you take it?
4:Come--don't all speak at once. I thought he would give more--I was sure of it--he looked it--so I asked him eight.
1: Well--and then?
4: He said he would call again.
ll cool j1: Thunder and lightning! Why, Francois—
4: Oh, I know--I know! It was a mistake, and I was a fool. Boys, I meant for the best; you'll grant me that, and I—
1: Why, certainly, we know that, bless your dear heart; but don't you be a fool again.
4: I? I wish somebody would come along and offer us a cabbage for it-- you'd see!
2: A cabbage! Oh, don't name it--it makes my mouth water. Talk of things less trying.
3: Boys, do these pictures lack merit? Answer me that.
1,2,4:No!
3: Aren't they of very great and high merit? Answer me that.
1,2,4:Yes!
3: Of such great and high merit that, if an illustrious name were attached to them they wo
uld sell at splendid prices. Isn't it so?
1: Certainly it is. Nobody doubts that.
3: But--I'm not joking--isn't it so?
2: Why, of course it's so--and we are not joking. But what of it. What of it? How does that concern us?"
3: In this way, comrades--we'll attach an illustrious name to them!
[Silence.]
3: Now, I have a perfectly serious thing to propose. I think it is the only way to keep us out of the almshouse, and I believe it to be a perfectly sure way. I base this opinion upon certain multitudinous and long-established facts in human history. I believe my project will make us all rich.
1: Rich! You've lost your mind.
3: No, I haven't.
2: Yes, you have--you've lost your mind. What do you call rich?
3: A hundred thousand francs apiece.
1prettygirl: He has lost his mind. I knew it.
2: Yes, he has. Carl, privation has been too much for you, and—
1: Carl, you want to take a pill and get right to bed.
2: Bandage him first--bandage his head, and then—
1: No, bandage his heels; his brains have been settling for weeks--I've noticed it.
4: Shut up![ with ostensible severity] and let the boy have his say. Now, then--come out with your project, Carl. What is it?
3: I will ask you to note this fact in human history: the merit of every great unknown and n
eglected artist must and will be recognized and his pictures climb to high prices after his death. My project is this: we must cast lots--one of us must die.[calmly and unexpectedly]
1:What?
2:He must be crazy!
4:Yes, he is.
1:I said that, bandage his head—
2:NO! He needs some medical help!
[3 waiting patiently for the hilarity to calm down]
3: Yes, one of us must die, to save the others--and himself. We will cast lots. The one chosen shall be illustrious, all of us shall be rich. Hold still, now--hold still; don't interrupt--I tell you I know what I am talking about. Here is the idea. During the next three months the one who is to die shall paint with all his might, enlarge his stock all he can. We'll have a to
n of them ready--a ton! And all that time the rest of us will be busy supporting the moribund, and working Paris and the dealers--preparations for the coming event, you know; and when everything is hot and just right, we'll spring the death on them and have the notorious funeral. You get the idea?