The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes by Rashid Razaq & Hassan Blasim

Author:Rashid Razaq & Hassan Blasim [Razaq, Rashid]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Oberon Books Ltd
Published: 2014-07-23T04:00:00+00:00

CARLOS: What is funny?

LYDIA: You.

CARLOS: Why? What I say?

LYDIA: Oh. Nothing. It’s my birthday today.

CARLOS: Happy Birthday!

LYDIA: I’m fifty-s(ix.)…how old are y(ou.)…no. Don’t. It’s refreshing to hear somebody say what they really think. You haven’t been here long enough to pick up our bad habits.

CARLOS: I would like to be British. To be a Britishman.

LYDIA: Not even the British particularly want to be British anymore.

CARLOS: I am not like these other foreigners. These immigrants. Working here illegally. Not paying taxes. Not respecting the law. Always complaining about Britain and the British. Hating the people who have fed them and housed them. They are retarded……gerbils.

LYDIA: Gerbils?

CARLOS: Stone Age savages. I am not like them!

LYDIA: I believe you.

CARLOS: I have had too much misery and war and death and shit and piss and camels. I want a country that treats me with respect so that I can worship it and believe in it. A country with streets clean and green trees. With peace and soft toilet paper. Where a girl in a short skirt can walk across the road without getting gobbled up by the ground. I want to change my skin and my blood. Let my lungs breathe clean, pure British air.

Beat.

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