MS-BL-LCP-1954-23

[0140] (Irritably) [0141] What is it?

[0142] Did you ever read the Bible?

[0143] The Bible...[0144] (he reflects) [0145] I must have taken a
look at it.

[0145|001] Do you remember the Gospels?

[0151] I remember the maps of the Holy Land. [0152] Coloured
they were. [0153] Very pretty. [0154] The Dead Sea was pale
blue. [0155] The very look of it made me thirsty. [0156] There's
where we'll go, I used to say, that's where we'll
go for our honeymoon. [0157] We'll swim. [0158] We'll be happy.

[0159] You should have been a poet.

[0160] I was. [0161] (gesture towards his rags) [0162] Isn't that
obvious?

[0164] Where was I...[0165] How's your foot?

[0166] Swelling visibly.

[0167] Ah yes, the story of the two thieves. [0168] Do you remember
it?

[0169] No.

[0170] Shall I tell it to you?

[0171] No.

[0172] It'll pass the time. [0173] (pause) [0174] It was two thieves,
crucified at the same time as our Saviour. [0175] One -

[0176] Our what?

[0177] Our Saviour. [0178] Two thieves. [0179] One is supposed to have
been saved and the other... (he searches for the
contrary of saved) ...damned.

[0180] Saved from what?

[0181] Hell.

[0182] I'm going [0183] (he does not move).

[0184] And yet... [0185] (pause) [0186] ...how is it -[0187] this is not boring
you I hope -[0189] how is it that of the four evangelists
only one speaks of a thief being saved? [0190] The four
of them were there - or thereabouts, [0191] and only one
speaks of a thief being saved. [0192] (pause) [0193] Come on,
Didi, return the ball, can't you, once in a way?