The City of Your Final Destination Page #3
Not even to each other.
There's mysterious Aunt Sarah.
She left for India
to follow her guru.
Ugh.
There she is,
signing away the family fortune.
[piano music continues]
They went to Venice
for their honeymoon.
And after that,
they went every year
for as long
as it was still possible.
But then the gondola
was the epitome of Europe,
of their Europe.
They persuaded the gondolier
to sell them his gondola.
They called it
the honeymoon gondola
and they had it shipped
all the way from the Adriatic,
right across the Atlantic,
here to Montevideo.
[piano music continues]
Their maddest
and saddest enterprise maybe.
[music stops abruptly]
But you've heard all about
our gondola from Jules' book.
It's still here with us,
rotting in the boathouse.
[projector whirring]
Buenos dias.
I'm Pete.
You must be Omar.
Yes.
Hello.
Hi.
I'm looking
for the mill house.
Miss Langdon said
it was down this way somewhere.
Mr. Gund has invited me
to lunch.
He has?
He hasn't told me.
I'm the one who does the cooking
around here.
I haven't bought anything.
He'll have to take you
to the parilla.
There is no other place.
Do they take Visa?
He's very generous.
Get in.
It's a mile away.
Jules,
by that big palm.
I was the one who found him.
So near to the house?
Come on.
[motor rumbling]
Blew the top of his head
right off.
I'm glad it was me
who found him
and not one of the others.
The odd thing
is that we all stayed here.
No, thank you.
Anyway,
here we all are...
including me.
Where are you from originally?
From Tokunoshima.
A small island.
I was poor with no family.
When I was 14,
someone liked me enough
to take me with him to England.
[loud clunking]
Here.
I find this old furniture
and make it look older.
from New York and buys it.
She says I have a good eye.
Adam used to work at Christie's
in London.
- Hello, Mr. Gund.
- Hello.
He sent me to a school there
where I learned everything
about furniture.
That was 25 years ago.
Yes.
We're about to have our
silver anniversary, aren't we?
Ready?
Should we go?
[sizzling]
I've ordered us
and some red wine.
Not too much for me.
I'm a bit of a lightweight,
I'm afraid.
Really?
How sad.
What about all those
drunken Persian poets of yours?
What about Hafez?
"Bring me a cup of red wine
that is dark red
and smells of musk..."
"Don't bring me
that expensive stuff..."
"That tastes like money..."
Both:
"And smells like lust."[chuckles]
So now, about the biography.
Please understand,
unlike my two sisters-in-law,
or the two ladies,
I should say,
I'm on your side.
- You are?
- Entirely on your side.
See, I've been trying
to explain to them
that to revive an interest
in Jules Gund and his work,
a biography
would be invaluable to us.
Well, if only
I would be very respectful
of the past,
everyone's feelings.
My dear boy,
he was my brother.
I knew him better than anyone.
I knew him when we were still
tearing the wings
off butterflies.
I was eight years older,
but it was he who invented
all the little torments
an older brother
inflicts on the younger.
We were both sent to school
in England.
I was utterly miserable,
but he, when in a system,
was in his element.
I suspect it was there at school
that he began to learn
how to exert power
It's that simple.
So we must work together,
you and I.
We must co-conspire.
[laughs]
I hadn't thought of conspiring.
Well, of course not.
Ah!
Gracias.
Ooh!
[speaking Spanish]
This is Mrs. Van Euwen.
The chatelaine
of Las Golondrinas,
our local grand dame.
Very grand.
Local color, you know?
I told them all they would see
was red meat.
Yes.
Worse,
why do you keep your new friend
away from me?
Oh, yes, he's very beautiful,
isn't he?
Yes, I thought
you'd be interested.
This is-
he's blushing.
- Ooh!
- This is Omar Razaghi.
He's come to do research
on my brother's biography.
- Mucho gusto.
- Ah!
Then you must research me.
I can tell you
things about Jules
that a brother
could never know...
or a wife or even a mistress.
[laughs]
You should write his life,
his and Pete's.
That a more interesting story,
yeah.
Go away.
Go away.
- Thank you.
- I go. I go.
You should come
to Las Golondrinas.
Have a sausage.
Is it pork?
Maybe.
I don't know.
[chuckles]
You don't drink;
you hardly eat meat.
Um... well, as I said before,
I know I can trust you.
I feel I can ask you
for your help
as you're asking for mine.
Like I said, I'll do anything.
Wait, wait,
this is non-literary.
It's nothing to do
with the biography.
When our mother-that is,
Jules' mother, my mother-
as a refugee,
she brought with her from
Germany some valuable things,
her jewelry.
Now, I have her jewelry.
And I would like
to dispose of it,
and I would like you to help me
dispose of it.
Is it legal?
Is what legal?
Taking these things
out of the country?
No, it's moral.
They're my things.
They were my mother's.
When she arrived here,
she hid them away.
Because of her experiences
in Germany,
she trusted no one.
She didn't feel safe anywhere.
Outside of this cocoon
that they built here,
why, she and my father
didn't feel safe on this planet.
[chuckles]
So after her death,
very shortly after my father's,
I found the jewels.
about them?
Nope.
They know nothing
of that history.
Even Caroline
hardly knew my mother.
She certainly knew nothing
of what was precious to her.
So I took the jewels.
I felt I could assume
that they were mine
as Caroline, in due course,
felt free to take what was hers.
From what your mother left?
With Caroline,
it was what my brother left.
Have you never thought,
never suspected that
Other than The Gondola?
Mm-hmm.
It is well known, Jules Gund
wrote only that one book.
Well, he was working
on another one when he died.
It is my theory that he died,
or killed himself,
because he couldn't...
couldn't write anymore.
Or because of what
he was writing
or trying to write.
A psychological impasse.
Caroline has the manuscript?
I don't know.
You have to ask her.
But that is not the subject
of our present little talk,
is it?
My jewels.
My need for money.
Ah, here's Pete.
Hail to thee!
[motor rumbling]
Come upstairs.
Follow me.
I want to show you something.
It is not for myself
that I need the money;
it is for Pete,
who may be free to leave me.
Does he want to leave you?
He should.
a better life than with me here.
You know, in order to bring him
here to Uruguay,
I had to adopt him.
Legally, he is my son.
Come and sit down, please.
I'll do what you ask.
Even though it's illegal
and dangerous?
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