The Diary of Lady M Page #4

And if one day I would be

like all the others...

who weigh children behind

lightened windows...

while I walk towards a

well-lit roundabout?

But before I can claim...

these lights, I have to...

conquer the darkness.

Terrible.

Where was my place?

On the other side of the mirror?

The price we had to pay,

to get to the other side,

to the other side of life,

is very high for a mirror.

Here was my place!

All my life I'll sleep

near an amplifier...

- What are you doing here?

- You scared me.

- I'm going to close.

- I want to stay here.

- You want to sleep here?

- Yes, I'd like that.

- Come with me, I have a room.

- No, I'm not in the mood.

I'll give you the keys. I'll be back

tomorrow at noon and knock three times.

Don't let anyone in.

Watch out for the big evil wolf.

Sweet dreams.

- Thank you.

Terrible!

- Is there any coffee?

- In the pan.

That's cat pee!

I can't drink it!

Is there no more coffee?

I'll make tea.

This is terrible.

I can't be everywhere, in the Kismet,

shopping, keeping the house

and then even feed them all.

Did you see the teapot?

Not there. It's over there.

Damn.

Haven't you seen the teapot?

When you came to Barcelona...

and Diego told me

he wanted to travel with you,

I thought I'd smash

my head against the wall.

Nuria, my sister, my mother,

my love, my revolt!

You, who move the hips

as well as the stars.

Help me that I don't

become a dry tree.

She heard my prayer.

I felt that life...

came from her warm lips

back into me.

Mine were still paralysed,

like those of a drowned person.

I wanted to shout out my despair...

that I gave up Diego

and had hurt her.

I'd have liked to cry

like the swallows,

who were so mad in the dawn

of the Catalan countryside.

The time that stopped

when Diego was inside me.

Those moments

without beginning or end.

The huge night,

where you had to dissolve,

in order to be reborn in the light.

I'd have given her everything,

everything that carried

the name of my beloved,

everything I'd never

have again,

and what tore me in pieces.

My body was like

the inside of those figs,

that I loved to nick in the end

of summer along the roadsides.

There were no more fruits,

but sweet confection.

What scandal!

Then I came perhaps a little too hard,

and she laughed.

Normal,

eventually I was

an outlaw.

Now comes the most impressive part.

- When it goes up?

- Yes.

Won't you try the roller coaster?

You aren't afraid of anything.

I am. It's the thrill of danger.

Yes, life is dangerous!

Diego told us today that

he had to return to Barcelona.

He said he wanted to paint.

Nuria decided to stay.

In her was also something broken.

Billie, look,

I've met a friend.

Give him to her later.

She's been drinking

and is fallen asleep.

I wonder how it feels.

It's so...

like an animal.

And you, fool'

you're not an animal?

Yes, but one for the stage!

I was told I didn't want

to be breastfeed.

It's never too late to try.

- How you mean?

- Want to try?

Do you know why they earlier,

I mean,

long ago,

in prehistoric times...

What then?

Why men thought

their wives were witches?

They didn't see a connection

between making love...

and making children.

- Really?

- Yes, sure.

Have you seen my shoe?

Sh*t, I'm late

to sign the contract...

And where you're going on tour?

Where we're going!

You'll come with too!

First to Brussels,

that will do us good,

to come out of this galley,

and then many other cities.

Impossible.

What's impossible?

You're sweet, but I can't...

But... listen...

Why not?

- You can!

- It's impossible.

I can't live like you do.

I can't go from hotel to hotel

with a baby.

You're my sweetheart.

Billie and you will be my family.

I have only you.

I have only you too.

What are you looking for?

I can't find the tickets.

Hurry up,

The train leaves in 5 minutes.

And Nanou?

She hasn't come yet.

Where is she?

I'd like to know that.

There they are.

Sorry, girls,

but I was argueing with

an impossible guy.

Come on,

you can tell us in the train.

She remained inside me,

just as I left her on the platform.

I should have tried once more

to persuade her...

Only a cloud of perfume remained...

whirling wildly

in the glare of a spotlight.

The Lady M disappeared one after

the other behind the curtain,

to the other side...

to the another reality.

Madam, can you please open?

Oh, you're too small...

I wondered if Billie maybe

had a new tooth.

I was cold.

Stalactites hang down from my eyes.

I didn't feel good.

Six months later,

I went to Barcelona.

I didn't dare to come close

to Calle Portavedra 35.

I was scared.

I didn't know why.

I had the feeling

of making a mistake.

I had learned to travel light'

without luggage.

I had freed myself of all things,

I kept only the one uppercase letter.

M had to go forward

without looking back.

Finally my curiosity won...

I wanted to know

what had become of them.

I had to know.

Hello, I'm looking for Diego.

Yes, Diego lives with Nuria...

they have a baby, Billie.

Nobody has heard of them,

I would know it.

Nuria is a coloured women...

No, they don't live here.

I've visited them here.

Must be a long time ago.

I had expected everything,

just not this.

This woman lived

at the same location,

and she claimed that she had

never seen them, never known them.

That evening I walked through

the large body of Barcelona...

as if it was the body of a lover.

On my skin I feel

the warm breath of the city...

like the breath of a mouth,

from which words of love come

I threw myself into the odour

of lime trees on Rambla de Catalunya,

like you can hide your face

in flowing mane.

Much later I received a letter

from Diego from South America.

He had married a Peruvian woman,

and was living there now.

From Nuria, nothing...

never more any message.

Never ever.

I'd give everything to

to meet her again.

Translation:

The Huge Animal From The North

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