Broken Glass

Am i able to ask you why? GELLBURG: I’ve worn black when you consider that highschool. HYMAN: No specific cause. GELLBURG, shrugs: constantly beloved it, that’s all. HYMAN: good it’s an identical factor together with her; she doesn’t comprehend why she’s doing this, yet a few very deep, hidden a part of her brain is directing her to do it. You don’t agree. GELLBURG: I don’t be aware of. HYMAN: you're thinking that she is aware what she’s doing? GELLBURG: good I continuously beloved black for enterprise purposes. HYMAN: It supplies authority? GELLBURG: no longer precisely authority, yet i needed to appear a bit older. See, I graduated highschool at fifteen and that i was once basically twenty-two while I entered the enterprise. yet I knew what i used to be doing. HYMAN: then you definitely imagine she’s doing this on function? GELLBURG:—Except she’s numb; not anyone can purposely do this, can they? HYMAN: I don’t imagine so. —I let you know, Phillip, not likely figuring out your spouse, when you've got any notion why she should be doing this to herself ... GELLBURG: I advised you, I don’t recognize. HYMAN: not anything happens to you. GELLBURG, an fringe of inflammation: I can’t examine whatever. HYMAN: I inform you a humorous factor, chatting with her, she doesn’t look all that unsatisfied. GELLBURG: Say! —yes, that’s what I suggest. That’s precisely what I suggest. It’s like she’s almost... I don’t comprehend ... having fun with herself. I suggest in a manner. HYMAN: How may possibly that be attainable? GELLBURG: after all she apologizes for it, and for making it challenging for me—you recognize, like i need to do most of the cooking now, and tending to my laundry etc ... I even store for groceries and the butcher ... and alter the sheets ... He breaks off with a few attention. Hyman doesn’t communicate. a protracted pause. You suggest ... she’s doing it opposed to me? HYMAN: I don’t understand, what do you're thinking that? Stares for an extended second, then makes to upward push, evidently deeply disturbed. GELLBURG: I’d greater be getting domestic. misplaced in his personal proposal. I don’t comprehend even if to invite you this or now not. HYMAN: What’s to lose, cross forward. GELLBURG: My mom and dad have been from the outdated nation, you know,—I don’t understand if it was once in Poland somewhere or Russia—but there has been this lady who they are saying was once ... you recognize ... gotten into by means of a ... just like the ghost of a useless person... HYMAN: A dybbuk. GELLBURG: That’s it. And it made her lose her brain etc. -You think in that? they'd to get a rabbi to wish it out of her physique. yet you think that that’s attainable? HYMAN: Do i feel so? No. Do you? GELLBURG: Oh no. It simply crossed my brain. HYMAN: good I wouldn’t understand how to wish it out of her, so ... GELLBURG: Be immediately with me—is she going to return out of this? HYMAN: good, let’s speak back after I see her the following day. perhaps I may still inform you ... i've got this unconventional method of ailment, Phillip. particularly the place the psychological aspect is concerned. i feel we fall ill in twos and threes and fours, no longer by myself as participants. You stick to me? i would like you to do me a desire, will you? GELLBURG: What’s that. HYMAN: You won’t be angry, ok? GELLBURG, tensely: Why may still I be angry? HYMAN: I’d such as you to provide her loads of loving. solving Gellburg in his gaze. are you able to? It’s vital now. GELLBURG: Say, you’re now not blaming this on me, are you?