Roger Jendly: Marcel
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Marcel : You know whales are one of the few, animals with inexpressive voices? When a dog or a cat express themselves, they bark or meow expressively. But whales only make coded noises. With mathematics we may soon understand them. Do you know what some sailors found near Kamchatka? Unknown big pink island. And uncharted. Know what they were? Shrimps. Immense pile of shrimps! Shrimp islands. And do you know why? Why we're going to eat shrimps three times a day? With dessert and with coffee? Because whales are killed for lipstick. And since whales eat scrimps but can't since they're all killed, we'll all die of indigestion from scrimps. And a good thing too.
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Marcel : Mathilde is right. It'll be a boy. His name will be Jonah. Mathilde is like a whale. Your nature of course. I'm complimenting you. Whales are fine. Jonah will come out of your womb. He fell out of the boat, the ship of fools we're on. He fell in the water and you swallowed him because you're good. You saved his life and now you're going to disgorge him. It's him. It's Jonah.
Mathieu : Jonah. I like it.
Marco & Group : In the year 2000, Jonah will be 25. At 25, the century will disgorge him. Or vomit him up. The whale of history will disgorge Jonah, who will be 25 in the year 2000. That's the time left to us to help him get out of the mess.
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Marcel : At six or earlier in summer, you can hear birds sing. So many... As numerous as the headlines. They send messages all around us. They're easy to hear if you don't read the paper. But man has invented a terrible silence, building it stone by stone, and no longer hears the messages around him. If he could hear them, he'd be a little encouraged. He's not the only one to speak. The only one who keeps the world turning. Have you heard a nightingale?
Bank Representative : A few times.
Marcel : Lying in bed?
Bank Representative : No. I live in town. But your children won't be able to live off nightingales. Though they are eaten.
Zero : Yes, they are eaten. In paté, or skewered, which is even better.
Marcel : By then your chemical products will have killed them.
Bank Representative : I'm not in chemicals.
Marcel : Your brothers are. You give them money so they can destroy whales or dump mercury in the lake. Do you eat fish from the lake?
Bank Representative : I do indeed. These problems are exaggerated. The fish can adapt to changes, like us.
Marcel : The fish may adapt, but not your organism. And when your brain's filled with mercury, all shrunk up?
Bank Representative : You accuse me of everything?
Marcel : Yes. You murder whales and destroy the ozone. You grow pigs with extra chops and run highways through beet fields, and make penicillin calves and blind hens.
Bank Representative : I think you're changing the subject.
Marcel : Did you know whales love music?
Bank Representative : No. But I like music a lot.
Marcel : So what? Nobody murders you for it.
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Mathieu : School kills them.
Marguerite : You went to school. And I did. And Marcel. We're no worse for it. It can't go on. I pay taxes for schools and then I pay you too. Do you want to see the books? Come and see them. We can't grow vegetables and support your school too.
Mathieu : Fuck the books. Are carrots more to you than your kids?
Marguerite : The kids will manage.
Marcel : You just make them and they manage.
Mathieu : So do pigs. Are you pigs?
Marguerite : Pigs or not, Tomorrow they go to school. Not yours. The other school. And you get back to work. I'm not paying you for not working.
Mathieu : Out of the question.
Marguerite : I've decided.
Mathieu : Not for me. I'll do something else.
Marguerite : Suit yourself. Tell me tomorrow.
Mathieu : I'm telling you now. Send them to the slaughterhouse. I'm keeping my pad, comrade-proprietor. For Jonah.
Marguerite : Keep it if you want. For Jonah. And fuck you.
