Act II pt.2 Flashcards
J: …strange animal.
It’s your skin-
J: …skin, do I?
It’s just that - it seems to be changing colour all the time. It’s going green. It’s hardening as well.
J: …on my nerves.
Perhaps it’s more serious than I thought. We must get the doctor.
J: …your own business.
All right. It was for your own good.
J: …good for me.
You’re breathing very hard.
J: …dead any moment.
Don’t say things like that to me, Jean. You know very well I’m your friend.
J: …in your friendship.
That’s a very hurtful thing to say.
J: …hurt about.
My dear Jean-
J: …your dear Jean.
You’re certainly in a very misanthropic mood today.
J: …being misanthropic.
You’re probably still angry with me over our silly quarrel yesterday. I admit it was my fault. That’s why I came to say I was sorry.
J: …are you talking about?
I told you just now. You know, about the rhinoceros.
J: …run them down.
You know very well that I shall never stand in your way.
J: …straight for it.
I’m sure you’re right. But I feel you’re passing through a moral crisis. You mustn’t excite yourself, it’s bad for you.
J: …irritate me as well.
But whatever’s the matter with your skin?
J: …it for yours.
It’s gone like leather.
J: …It’s weatherproof.
You’re getting greener and greener.
J: …drinking again.
I did yesterday, but not today.
J: …past orgies.
I promised you to turn over a new leaf. I take notice when friends like you give me advice. And I never feel humiliated - on the contrary.
J: …Brrr!
What did you say?
J: …I felt like it.
Do you know what’s happened to Boeuf? He’s turned into a rhinoceros.
J: …to Boeuf?
He’s turned into a rhinoceros.
J: Brrr!
Come on, now, stop joking.
J: …my own house.
I didn’t say you couldn’t.
J: …cool myself down.
He must have a fever.
J: Brrr!
He’s got the shivers. I’m jolly well going to phone the doctor.
J: …just disguised.
He looked very serious about it, I assure you.
J: …that’s his business.
I’m sure he didn’t do it on purpose. He didn’t want to change.
J: How do you know?
Well, everything led one to suppose so.
J: …it on purpose?
I’d be very surprised. At any rate, Mrs Boeuf didn’t seem to know about it.
J: …just a fool!
Well, fool or no fool…
J: …he was up to.
You’re wrong there, Jean - it was a very united family.
J: …Hum, hum, brrr!
Very united. And the proof is that-
J: …kept to himself.
I shouldn’t make you talk, it seems to upset you.
J: …it relaxes me.
Even so, let me call the doctor, I beg you.
J: …better for it.
How can you say a thing ilke that? Surely you don’t think - ?
J: …extraordinary in that.
There’s nothing extraordinary in it, but I doubt if it gave him much pleasure.
J: And why not, pray?
It’s hard to say exactly why; it’s just something you feel.
J: …life as we have.
As long as they don’t destroy ours in the process. You must admit the difference in mentality.
J: …life is superior?
Well, at any rate, we have our own moral standards which I consider incompatible with the standards of these animals.
J: …moral standards.
What would you put in their place?
J: Nature!
Nature?
J: …Morality’s against Nature.
Are you suggesting we replace our moral laws by the law of the jungle?
J: …suit me fine.
You say that. But deep down, no one-
J: …primeval integrity
I don’t agree with you at all.
J: I can’t breathe.
Just think a moment. You must admit that we have a philosophy that animals don’t share, and an irreplaceable set of values which it’s taken centuries of human civilisation to build up.
J: …we’ll be better off.
I know you don’t mean that seriously. You’re joking! It’s just poetic fancy.
J: Brrr! (2)
I’d never realised you were a poet.
J: Brrr! (3)
That’s not what you believe fundamentally - I know you too well. You know as well as I do that mankind -
J: …about mankind!
I mean the human individual, humanism.
J: …old sentimentalist.
But you must admit that the mind -
