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75 wishes CD-ROM /interactive video/ CD-ROM and Multimedia Screening Project The wishes
1.
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Do I start now?
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Its up to you.
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All right, I think I only have one
wish to ask the goldfish for, I dont have three
wishes, and my only wish is
it is whenever
I
Hang on, how do I put this in a logical and coherent
sort of way
my only wish is that the goldfish
fulfils all of my wishes as long as I live.
2.
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Money, money or something
it takes hard work to earn it
three wishes is too few
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Right, but they are important, its the three main wishes which are
you know, for the rest of your life
wishing for something that is
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So, the first one goes
the first one is
the first one is
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I cant hear you
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The first one is
wait a minute
Ventzi, thats not a simple question, its rather a global one, its about existence,
about life
its about
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Well yes, thats right.
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Its not a simple question
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No, it isnt
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Its not a simple one
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It isnt, but you should keep on trying to find out the answers for yourself
constantly
so that you
know exactly what youre doing
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So my first wish is
my first wish, for the time being, is to make it up with a friend, whom I havent seen for quite a while
And second
Id like to make friends with my sister again
cos that feels almost
impossible too,
and the third one
my third wish is
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come on, tell me about it
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My third wish is
to have my own house at the seaside. Thats it.
3.
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Well, if I had this goldfish, or
if I caught this goldfish, actually
My
first wish is
it is to realize my professional
potential; my second wish is
to have lots of
love and many beautiful women around me, and one of them, the most
beautiful one
And
my third wish refers to my son, you know, I wish hed have the same, I mean the two things I just mentioned.
4.
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Three wishes
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Right, the goldfish
OK, I want to be independent
of anything, I mean independent of society
men
women
parents
anything
I want to be independent of society, which is impossible
I want to be independent thats my first wish, and my second one
is
Id like to experience
and live through every single bit of the world! You might find this
hard to understand, but I do want it
5.
- Just three wishes, and nothing more specific
about them?
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Right, just as it happens in the
stories; no wishes referring to health; imagine youve got the goldfish
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Perhaps Id ask her to give me a higher standard of living
well, with all the implications like money and so on
a car
but
it sounds rather unpleasant when you put it in these
words
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So you want a higher standard
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A better standard of living, a better
Internet connection
and
beautiful women as well
what else can anyone wish for
thats all
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You have one more wish left
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Oh, come on, I think I listed all
three of them: a better standard of living
ah, right, the
Internet connection is implied in the standard of living, so thats even better: a higher standard, which implies all
the things mentioned; beautiful women
and
I dont know
perhaps something nice
an event
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A single event?
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Yes, I mean something like a trip;
something to remember
like an excursion
to the Philippines
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And thats all you wish for in your entire life, thats it, right? I mean these three wishes are for life
and theyre enough for you.
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Well
I wouldnt exactly say theyre enough but
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What else do you want
? If you had good standard of living, pretty women and
travel
what more could you possibly desire
?
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Its just occurred to me that after those three wishes came true, Id start feeling bored again and Id ask for something else.
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Well, yes, thats it, thats the tricky
part of it
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I think Id like to go away somewhere for New Years Eve
for example
to Budapest
this New Year celebration
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You mean 2001?
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Mm
you know, the new millennium and all that stuff.
6.
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Can I have just one wish fulfilled
three times?
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One wish coming true three times?
Whats that?
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No, its nonsense, I was kidding
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My three wishes are very simple.
First
Id like to have
an air raid shelter underground.
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But you should make wishes for a
lifetime
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Sure, I could use it any time I
wanted, that fits in with the definition, right
And the furnishing of this shelter would be
terrific
that is
very
Well, my second wish is
I want to have loads of money
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I know, thats
rather
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And my third wish is
at this point Im a little superstitious. If I announce my wish, it might not come true
so I wont express
it in the way which
so, it goes like this whenever I take up doing something, Id like it to come out just the way I want it to
And is it possible to make a wish for having five wishes?
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Ok. Give me two more wishes then.
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So, theyre kind of secondary wishes
I wish I could
give up smoking and start it again whenever I want
no, thats not true
and I wish I could
die exactly when
I want to
well, perhaps I should define this more precisely beforehand
No, without
any
well
I mean
sometimes you could just blurt out I want to die, but this
is said by your ego, you know; your under-ego is not involved in
that
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You dont know exactly how it is involved
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You can tell
but if you know it, then you must be absolutely sure
. you see? I mean
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This certainty
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Well these are my wishes after all!
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Yes, whats the second one
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The second one
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three wishes plus two secondary wishes make five
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I wouldnt like to
be
/inaudible/
. But still,
when you set your mind to think in this direction, so many wishes
occur to you, you get all kinds of ideas and whims
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they
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oh, its nonsense, why would I need an air raid shelter
bla bla bla
underground. Id rather have a flying saucer.
7.
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Gitannes, Absolute and more Absolute
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What?
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Lots of Gitannes cigarettes, plenty of Absolute vodka and even
more Absolute
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Absolute?!
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Blue label, if possible
8.
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Id like to know what I want
Its a really tough problem with me, I dont ever know exactly what I want. Wherever I am, I always
wish I were somewhere else; whatever Im occupied with, I wish I were doing something else
So thats my first wish
. And then
I dont know
I guess that once
this first wish has come true, Id take pains
to work out the other two wishes
Yes, I just
cant figure them out now because of this problem thats always been torturing me
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I see, you dont know
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. Thats right. I always
feel like Im standing somewhere in-between
Ive always felt out of place
. I want to find the place where I belong
and if the goldfish could help me
?
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When you were a little girl, what did you want to
?
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I wanted to be a dustman.
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That was when you were young
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Yes
so that I could find different sorts of things in the dustbins
and maybe in this way I could understand more about
people because I used to like, and I still do like to peer into
the lit up flats as I walk along the dark streets at night
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Yes, you stare at the flats on the
first floor
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Right, on the first floor /laughter/
So I might ask the goldfish to fulfill this kind of wishes
for me
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OK
thanks
9.
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What would you wish for yourself
and the people you love. Make a wish for yourself this means
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. Of course itll be for
me!
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right, for you. Because
imagine the kids would have to answer the same question, you know, what
they would like to have, you see, which means that you cant answer for anybody else but yourself.
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Id ask for ordinary things, rather ordinary actually
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Go ahead, ask for them. Whats your first wish?
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So
I want my children to be healthy
. Thats most important to me
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Yes and what comes next
?
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Next
Id like to fuck you
. and in the third place
in the third place
erm
and third
..
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Come on, say it!
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Id like to fuck somebody else too but I wont tell you this persons name
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No, dont tell me
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not in front of the camera.
10.
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Well, Id like to be the owner of Pirin Blagoevgrad football team; Id like to be the teams manager and
I want them to win the European Championship Cup
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Two more wishes
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No, Ive got just one left
the European Championship
Cup was my second wish
erm
and
the Club Championship
Cup too
I want them to win the Club Championship
Cup as well
and thats it, these are my three wishes
11.
Mateo
/speaking in Italian/
12.
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Oh, Im not prepared to do this right now
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Thats the way it should be, come ooon
.
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Nooo
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Come on, come on
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Oh stop it
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Come on
tell me one wish
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I dont have any wishes. I make them come
true all by myself. Theres just one I want CSKA to be the football champion, which doesnt really depend on me
/laughter/
I can deal with all the other things
by myself.
13.
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What do you want
for you personally
in your life
?
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I want to see Michael Jordan play
basketball live. Unfortunately, thats not possible
any longer
I had two dreams about Bulgaria and
Ive told you about them
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Tell me again
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One was to buy an album by the Army of Lovers and the second
one was to eat pastry at Rosa Bella sweet shop. Ive realized
them both. Thats why I havent got anything to look forward to here. Its not possible to see Jordan either because hes already quit playing basketball
Ive seen Metallica perform live in a concert
what can I say
What do I
want? I want to speak and write in the same alphabet as the rest
of the world thats one of my biggest
wishes
And I also wish people wouldnt take things so seriously
People shouldnt be so serious themselves
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No, Im asking about your personal wishes
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Personally
well yes, thats what I want.
I mean I want to have a social environment I can fit in with.
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I see.
14.
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Imagine the goldfish and your three
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I can tell you a joke about it immediately
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No, no, no, tell me your three wishes
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I havent got any wishes.
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Why not? What is it that you dont want then
?
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OK, heres my first wish: I dont want Ventzi Zankov
to paint a nude picture of me.
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You dont want that?
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Nooo
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What else?
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I wouldnt allow that
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Your second wish?
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in your dreams
I mean the other
two
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Is that all?
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Yes.
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Why do you look so embarrassed?
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What? Well Im not used to standing in front of cameras, perhaps
you are aware of that
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No Im not
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Hmm
. Im kidding you silly thing
15.
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Id like to meet a prince
riding a white
horse. And I want my child to do well in life. In the third place
. I want all my friends to be extremely happy.
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If there were a goldfish, they could
be
16.
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So give me your three wishes.
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Three wishes
?
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Its about
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Three wishes
? Well
my wish
is
to
. marry a very rich husband and to be able to have
all the intelligent men brought together in the same place,
communicating with each other because it gives me enormous pleasure
to watch some nice guys who complement and help each other; they
give each other inspiration and they are always up to something
new. For this reason I need a rich and open-minded husband. My second wish
Id start immediately
I have an idea for
I want to paint
some
Ive got an idea for
a specific kind of painting but Im not going
into details about it
and Ive got a third suggestion to make a film
about women, erm
theyve already stolen my idea
John Malcovich
. The camera
shows everything as seen through the eye of a woman just as it is in Being John Malcovich and various women are presented in a different state
of mind; different themes
something
something like that
. erm
I cant remember which film I saw that in, but it was fragmentary
small fragments, states; women who
erm
.. this state is
presented just
.. a woman watching the world around
her and all of this is revealed in front of the camera; its not
its not acting; theres another way that Ive figured in my
head
.. Well, thats what Id like to do now
but thats quite a
lot for me to do
. Im a bit too lazy in general
If I do all of
this, itll be
well yes, for the
time being
And as for a lifetime
it isnt
it surely isnt realistic
to make plans for a lifetime
. For a lifetime
I think itll take me
rather a long time to fulfil the plans I just mentioned.
17.
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Well, theres something I cant tell you about; its an intimate kind
of wish, and I put it as my first wish
. And its really really
. personal
What else
do I want to have?
First, I want to go away
erm
. second I want that thing Im not going to tell you about; and third, Id like
to have my own art gallery, for example
Thats all.
18.
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Right now!?
. oh! Id like to have a better intuition
and settle my affairs
. Of course, Ventzi, Id like to discover my true self my true self
integrity
..
. where
there
My wishes arent so pragmatic!
. I want to be a terrorist
.. I mean a true one.
19.
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So I must produce three wishes!?
the first three wishes that cross my mind? .. Well
I wish I could fly, for example
. erm
. Many wishes have occurred to me
but none of them is worth saying
. The other two
wishes just arent worth saying and I dont know if
. Theyre not just two, theyre a thousand
I should ask the goldfish for something
thats exclusively in her powers to fulfil
So, first, I want to have wings and to be able to fly;
second, Id like to be able to swim under water;
and third, I want to
. to
walk underground and breathe there. These are
thats all; theres nothing else. You dont need a goldfish for anything else.
20.
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So
my three wishes
number one Id like
Im not sure but
.oh
. perhaps Id like to become a star.
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In which sphere?
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Which sphere
erm
I dont know a star in photography
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I see
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Id like to be a photographer; thats something
I strongly desire
. My second wish is to
naturally, just like any other person, Id like to do well in life
. and
. my third wish is
ah?
So, my third wish
is
. well
. I dont know!
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Come on! Say it!
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I really dont know; Ive no idea
. No, its not that I dont want
.. I dont know
.. But!
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What?
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Will the goldfish fulfill these
wishes?
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Oh, I cant tell you that
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OK. My third wish is: if for some
reason the goldfish fails to fulfill my wishes, I want somebody
else to come into my life and make them come true.
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Thats great!
21.
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Ive got three wishes, which are
the three
wishes that Id make and these are: first I want to be
I want to live
. forever;
second, and maybe this should actually be the first one, Id like to be able to travel in time and space, to change my position in
time and space simultaneously, thats it
. And third
my third
wish is to be able to change my form my appearance
to change my appearance and my biological kind as well
thats something
I guess thats all. These
three wishes are absolutely
sufficient.
22.
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What would your wishes be, apart
from long life and good health
?
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You mean the goldfish story
?
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Yes, what would you
?
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Oh, what a great question to ask!
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wish for?
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Let me see
what would I wish for
first
my first wish is to have a never-ending
youth
never to grow old
but
I dont mean to live forever, I just want to be young forever
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Right, I see
you dont just want to live
forever, you also want to be young forever
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No, I dont want to live forever
Id rather have a normal length of life, only Id like to be 20 all of the time. Thats my first wish; and the second one is to have love,
much love in my life
thats what I want
and of course, Id make a wish to have gold, money and riches you know, this kind of things, because no one can do
without them. Ive got all the other things that I
need; theres nothing to moan and groan about.
So these are my wishes
yes, thatll do.
23.
He
speaks in Greek, which is his native language, and then he translates
in English
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OK, Ill say it in English now
Well, actually
I was thinking that if I find this fish, my first desire would be
to have as many as desires I want
anywhere, in any place, in any time
the other second wishes Ill just giveem to the poor people; to the
to the dogs; to the fish as well, so
can do I want OK
basta
24.
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three wishes
beyond life!?
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apart from long life
and good health. I mean everybody wants to have long life and good health, so thats something we should ignore.
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Nooo, I
I know what I want.
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OK
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Id like to be assured of what I do and why I do it, and to be fully devoted
to it.
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So thats your first wish
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Yes, thats my first wish I want to make
sure I do what I really want to do; my second wish is
to feel that Im alive
to be aware of
to know that
that I have children, who
I guess the children
will give a real meaning to my life.
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Arent you trying to project your personal failed dreams upon your children
?
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No
Ill never do that
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Why do you consider your children
as the meaning to your life then?
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Well thats exactly what I mean
I want to find
the reason to live and to be assured of what I do and to manage
to
give them
to provide
my children with everything they need
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Dont you think they could find a different meaning for their own lives, erm
. which isnt exactly
your meaning
.
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Of course
of course they could
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So they cant possibly be
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never! Never
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the meaning to your life
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its my parents example that Id like to follow
my mother and my fathers. Theyre musicians and Im sure that
theyve never tried to manipulate me in this way theyve never wanted me to realize their
own failed dreams and plans
. and I know
. its that model Id like to copy; I want to make it possible for my children
to make their own choices
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What is it that youd like to do? Apart from your children, leave alone
the children
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Well Im a romantic kind of person
I used to have
a talent when I was young. I play the violin
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What was your third wish?
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My third wish is
to
die without regretting
anything; I want to be sure all my life has been
. /laughter/
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Wow! Thats great
thats simply
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and Id rather not ask
questions about why I have to die, just because Id be happy and content with the life I had
. /laughter/
. thats all
/laughter/
25.
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I can still remember one
evening
in Sozopol. We
were three men and a woman. The womans name was
Katia. She was very beautiful. I
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perfect body
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perfect body
her zodiacal
sign was Aries
. she was extremely
attractive
and assertive
There were Emil Valev the Violet General, Ventzislav Zankov the Bloody
King and hmm Orlin Dvorianov
I dont know
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and so
?
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the village teacher
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hahaaahahaa
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right. So, we get together and start
courting this lady
erm
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/a voice coming from aside/
all three of you at the same time?
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Of course
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The three of us courted her and
I got this marvelous idea to pretend that we were women and she
was a man because otherwise we were three men and it would have
been too tough we would have killed each other over her, ermmm
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/a voice from aside/
.theres this thing by
Jung
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and when some
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/ a voice from aside/
the thing is that
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and so
wait a minute
.
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. well Im not exactly Jung
but Im close to his kind
you know
juuunnn
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ha!
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/in Russian/ junii artist (a young artist)
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right, a young artist
what happens next?
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Well yes
so.. haha ; Ive held Ventzi in high esteem ever
since
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Mmmm
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Youre going to publish this
?
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Sure. Absolutely
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/everybodys laughing/
-
while he was
he was being rude and he said lets see if she has any tits and he rushed ahead of her to check how she looked at the front; then
how she looked from behind; and at some point he sank deep into
contemplation and
was overcome with a romantic mood I guess the moon exerted its influence upon him. He
started talking about the high tides and low tides, and the moon,
and romance
It was then that each one of us made his three wishes
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..thats right
-
erm
Ventzis wish was
actually
he had three wishes but they could successfully be reduced to just
one version of a wish: I want to keep getting a hard-on
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Hahaaahahhahaaa
.
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This was Ventzis wish
hahaha
I have such good memory!
..Ermm
Emo Valevs wish was to have his own studio; a music studio
and
perhaps something else too
an artificial extension for his dick
I dont know
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Hahahaha
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Ermm
I
my wish was to have a frying pan full of hot oil and
the goldfish to plop into it
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Hahahahahahahahaa
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At this point they all got angry
with me, for no obvious reason
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Hhaahahahaha
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and they said Id ruined their evening
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Hhaaahahahaa
Orlin, youre just perfect,
man!
.
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what else is there to say
no, Im not. If I were perfect, Id always be getting a hard-on
/everybodys laughing/
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/a voice from aside/
oh come on
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hahahahaha
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/a voice from aside/ What about
the woman
!?
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Look, this refers to past, present and future
/laughter/
these are the three forms of getting a hard-on
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/a voice from aside/ What happens
further in the story
!?
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lets go and get drunk
together some time soon
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The woman
later on
she called us on the phone from Plovdiv. She was an economist and
she was involved in some kind of
. komsomol business,
whatever it was
and she said: Heres a mermaid calling
-
hahahha
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from the seaside
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hahahahahahaa
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it was Kateto
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ah right, Kateto
.
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She was pretty cool!
And there was another striking event; it was
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Tell us about it, it was the crucial
moment
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and it was the very struggle
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/a voice from aside, speaking in
Russian/ I can hear you
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It was the competition between us
three stags
. while we
were trying to get off with the lady, pretending to be women ourselves.
Ventzi was a bad young girl who had been locked away in a school
for underage criminals
erm
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Juvenile delinquents institution.
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Thats right, a juvenile delinquents institution
the Violet General pretended to be a punk chick and I was an aging
hahaha
lady in her forties, and I acted
as if I was drowning in the water, so that the man would rescue
me
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What kind of man did she pretend
to be?
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She was just an ordinary guy
a guy that had to pick up one of us, you know, and
had to rescue me from drowning
but then she and
Ventzi swam out into the sea
I dont know what they did there; the only thing I know is
I suspect
because Ventzi
found it really hard to get out of the water afterwards hahahahahha
. He got caught in the waves and he moaned oh and ouch, as he was struggling to
to conceal some parts of his body underwater
. After that he said he dreamed a strange dream about dolphins which had
been slaughtered with an axe and he was rescuing them
the rescuing of the dolphins. Later on Ventzi
Ventzi and the Violet General erm
got ill with the
usual
. Having diarrhea when on holiday at the seaside is
quite a natural thing. When
when you got that
ah
thats the most curious part of the story. Its
its what happens when youre unable to foresee the oncoming events; so, I expected you to get the
diarrhea and I was on the watch for that!
And you started
to feel sick one by one the Violet General was the first
because of excessive drinking and shitting; then it was Ventzis turn
I comforted him,
I was a friend in need, he surely remembers that; I gave him pills
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Thats right
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pills for his diarrhea and headache and so on
afterwards I abandoned him cos we had a date with the woman I was telling you about. We had a date
on the beach
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.
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No. She had a date with the tree
of us together. However, I got rid of them, you see, cos they had diarrhea
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and how did you manage to
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I guess I drink more... or perhaps
I can hold my bowels longer at times. I dont know
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Hahahahaaaa
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And then I rushed to the beach
he was suffering badly; he was left lying on a couch
it was a terrible situation, you see some wretched narrow couch and Ventzi was rolling writhing on it. The Violet General was with his bassist Evgueni, writhing there too
So I rushed to find the lady
Alas! She! Had! Diarrhea! Too!
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Hahhahhaahaha
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I was the only one to survive
hahahaha
and I was
left alone its my karma I always find myself standing alone because everybody
else is shitting
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