POLITICIAN
And a TV? What am I saying?!
ROMEK
There’s a radio, for now. Later we’ll scrounge a used TV. These days they go for pennies — or somebody might give you one for nothing. The antenna’s up on the roof. It’s unused now, but all you have to do is hook it up. Now, past the woods, as you come down the hill, the lake is right in front of you. In the summer the girls go down there to sunbathe. You’ve never seen such girls! They make your head spin. And then the view beyond the lake… And it’s all a twenty minute walk. Well, maybe half an hour.
POLITICIAN
You know, I was always afraid that something would go wrong. I was afraid of my dog dying, or my mother; afraid that my wife would leave me, or, most of all, that I’d be no good: too dumb, too weak. I was afraid of failing, afraid o
