The Birthday Party - The Past Flashcards
My Uncle Barney …
Used to take me to the seaside […] the sun coming down - golden days
He had a house…
Just outside Basingstoke at the time. Respected by the whole community […] all-round man […] a cosmopolitan
When I had to go away on business…
I never carried any money […] see how the MCC was getting on overseas. Otherwise my name was good.
Well, I’ve got a position, I won’t deny it.
[McCann: you certainly have]
Gold: I would never deny that I had a position
The main issue…
Is singular issue […] might well approximate in points of procedure […] all is dependent on the attitude of our subject.
In … a big hall […]
But then they locked the place up and he couldn’t get out […] and then he got a fast train and he came down here.
I used to go for a walk…
Down the canal with a girl […] a beautiful girl […] she wasn’t a Sunday school teacher for nothing […] I never took liberties […] I’d tip my hat to the toddlers, I’d give a Epping hand to a couple of stray dogs […] the sun falling behind the dog stadium.
The nicest piece…
Of gefilte fish you could wish to find on a plate.
Childhood.
Hot water bottles. Hot milk. Pancakes. Soapsuds. What a life.
You skin’s crabby […]
Your eyes are full of muck […] Your feet stink, what are you but a corpse waiting to be washed? Whenever I hear that point of view I feel cheerful […] all the little birds, the smell of the grass, church bells, tomato juice -
McCann: you throttled her.
Goldberg: with arsenic.
I believed in …
A good laugh […] a little Austin, tea in Fuller’s, a library book from Boots […] I for one am knocked over by the sentiments she expressed.
The Necessary and the Possible.
It went like a bomb. Since then I always speak at weddings.
I had a wife.
What a wife […] I’d say hullo to the little boys, the little girls […] the nicest piece of rollmop and pickled cucumber you could wish to find on a plate […] what a funeral.
My little room was pink.
Musical boxes all over the room […] I had little sister and brothers in other rooms, all different colours.
