Aus dem Leben der Marionetten
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:10:02
Thank you, Mogens.
You've been a great help.

:10:05
Good-bye.
:10:15
l don't want to.
:10:21
Sit down.
:10:25
l think l've made quite an effort.
:10:30
How often do we say
that we hate someone.

:10:34
Or that we wish our counterpart
were dead. Or we hit each other.

:10:39
Humiliate, challenge,
threaten the other.

:10:43
We spit each other in the face, grip
each other's arms, wrestle, yell.

:10:48
Finally some blood is shed. One of us
triumphs, the other is destroyed...

:10:53
and stands by the bathroom door
asking for forgiveness.

:10:58
That's not dangerous?
-Not dangerous at all.

:11:01
Everything's like a game...
:11:04
with often repeated answers, pauses,
tantrums. The exits are rehearsed.

:11:11
Of course it's fatal
we don't have an audience...

:11:14
but we usually manage
to overcome that inconvenience.

:11:20
That's all...
-That's all nothing.

:11:23
Just part and parcel
of our life together.

:11:27
l think...
:11:32
No, that's not true either.
:11:37
Not true?
:11:39
Doesn't one crazy theory claim
some fools love fighting...

:11:43
and humiliating each other?
:11:46
Don't they say it's
some rarefied form of contact?

:11:51
l get punched in the face. Hurrah,
we finally had physical contact.

:11:58
Divorce and all that.

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