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The Girl. - The stool, that stool over there, it's ours,
we bought it,
it is, in a way, our property,
my property,
I put more of my money into it,
because I use it more that the other two, and also
- that's what's been agreed, when we separate, once and for all I mean, "for ever", when we separate once and for all -
I'll be taking it with me.
At the beginning, a long time ago, when we began,
in the same way as we asked for the door at the back and the magnetic tape recorder
- but the door at the back, it's logical, we weren't going to take it with us,
it's logical, and the magnetic tape recorder, well, let's be realistic,
later, I'm not saying,
I'm dreaming but I'm not saying,
the tape recorder wasn't possible, not enough money
and this one, the other one, here, this one'll do, one inside the other,
it sings and you can only see sparks, almost nothing but sparks
- oh dear, the point we've reached!
At the beginning, we did ask for the stool, it was all planned for, it was supposed to be there when we arrived, and in the right place, and it was so absolutely necessary, we couldn't do without it,
that's what we always said to scare them into looking for one and finding one so it would be there.
We had asked for it.
Stools, I've seen lots of them! Big ones, small ones, with three legs, or with four (but never the same height), and stools with backs,
and it's not a stool any more,
well, as for me, I said to them,
and it's not a stool any more,
and as for them, they laughed, and said to me
"What difference does it make?"
"If you can do something complicated, you can do something simple,"
and a chair,
- because, frankly, let's call things,
these damned things by their name, by their damned name!
And a chair,
they were saying to me,
a chair is better than a stool.
Just try and make them understand!
Can never understand anything.
How can you do a complete turn on a chair,
I asked them,
How can you do a complete turn,
like that...
All right, I did it!
And I turned, I did a complete turn,
okay...
I've seen stools, I've seen plenty!
At the same time, looking back,
today when I think about it,
they were not the worst, those people,
no,
they were, in fact, quite obliging, they thought they were doing right,
being helpful,
never understood anything, but not bad at heart

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