But that is the name of a Brad Pitt movie Milne <\/i><\/p>\n
It was spelt with a k <\/i><\/p>\n
Come again <\/i><\/p>\n
It was spelt Kalifornia not California <\/i><\/p>\n
Why are you calling this story California?<\/i><\/p>\n
Why do you think?<\/i><\/p>\n
Because we are in California <\/i><\/p>\n
Right first time <\/i><\/p>\n
Nelly was sitting on the settee looking at the ocean<\/p>\n
The movie was about a serial killer <\/i><\/p>\n
I rather liked it <\/i><\/p>\n
Do you realise that a Chinese maid was murdered just down from here in 1959?<\/i><\/p>\n
Did they catch the killer?<\/i><\/p>\n
Yes it was her boyfriend<\/i><\/p>\n
How long did it take? <\/i><\/p>\n
They found him next to the corpse <\/i><\/p>\n
He had blown his brains out <\/i><\/p>\n
How sad <\/i><\/p>\n
The ocean is empty that is strange for this time of day <\/i><\/p>\n
It is full of fish <\/i><\/p>\n
But there are no people no ships nothing <\/i><\/p>\n
Have you been sniffing again?<\/i><\/p>\n
I do not have a habit<\/i><\/p>\n
Would you hand me the book<\/i><\/p>\n
On a morning at the end of August Yuri took a train to Gazetny Street to go to the Botkin Hospital (it was known as the Soldatenko Hospital in those days)<\/i><\/p>\n
It was his first day at his new job <\/i><\/p>\n
What book is that from?<\/i><\/p>\n
Doctor Zhivago <\/i><\/p>\n
It is a passage from the book just before Zhivago dies <\/i><\/p>\n
Why are you reading it? <\/i><\/p>\n
I have always read this passage <\/i><\/p>\n
It makes me sad <\/i><\/p>\n
Then why read it?<\/i><\/p>\n
Here I am looking out at the ocean <\/i><\/p>\n
The day is hot <\/i><\/p>\n
But I can see no life <\/i><\/p>\n
Are you sure you have not taken anything <\/i><\/p>\n
Fuck off Kenny <\/i><\/p>\n
The Lady in Lilac <\/i><\/p>\n
The lady in lilac was a Swiss national <\/i><\/p>\n
She was Mademoiselle Fleury from Melyuzeyevo and was by now very very old <\/i><\/p>\n
For twelve years she had been writing to the authorities in Moscow for permission to return to her native country and quite recently her application had been granted <\/i><\/p>\n
She had come to Moscow for her exit visa and was on her way to the embassy to collect it<\/i><\/p>\n
Fanning herself with her documents which were done up in a bundle and tied with a ribbon <\/i><\/p>\n
A lilac ribbon? <\/i><\/p>\n
Shut up Milne <\/i><\/p>\n
So she walked on overtaking the tram for the tenth time and quite unaware that she had passed Zhivago and survived him<\/i><\/p>\n
Had the tram broken down?<\/i><\/p>\n
Russian trams often do <\/i><\/p>\n
Do they mind that you are copying passages from the book and are adding them to your short story?<\/i><\/p>\n
Hopefully they do not care <\/i><\/p>\n
If they do then I will remove them <\/i><\/p>\n
But why are you interested in the lilac woman?<\/i><\/p>\n
Because she was there when the Chinese girl was murdered <\/i><\/p>\n
She was in trapped in Russia <\/i><\/p>\n
Stalin was died in 1953 the murder took place in 1959<\/i><\/p>\n
She was in California in 1959<\/i><\/p>\n
Then why did she go back to Russia I know where I would rather be?<\/i><\/p>\n
Because she had witnessed a murder<\/i><\/p>\n
By a jealous boy friend <\/i><\/p>\n
It was an open and shut case<\/i><\/p>\n
This is sounding like the movie <\/i><\/p>\n
The movie was about a serial killer <\/i><\/p>\n
Anyway the lady in lilac is a fictional character so how could she have witnessed a murder <\/i><\/p>\n
Even fictional characters witness murders<\/i><\/p>\n
Hey folks I think we are in la la land again <\/i><\/p>\n
I am off to the beach <\/i><\/p>\n
Then my view will not be vacant <\/i><\/p>\n
You cannot see the beach from this apartment <\/i><\/p>\n
But I will know you are there<\/i><\/p>\n
With thousands of others <\/i><\/p>\n
You should give your nose a rest Nelly <\/i><\/p>\n
Fuck off Kenny <\/i><\/p>\n
I am about to <\/i><\/p>\n
Bye Milne <\/i><\/p>\n
Look after her <\/i><\/p>\n
Nelly walked out on to the balcony<\/p>\n
She quickly picked up her flop flops as the tiles were hot<\/p>\n
You can see the house from here<\/i><\/p>\n
What house? <\/i><\/p>\n
The house where the murder took place<\/i><\/p>\n
Really <\/i><\/p>\n
It is owned by a family called the Jacobson\u2019s now <\/i><\/p>\n
How do you know?<\/i><\/p>\n
I asked them<\/i><\/p>\n
And told them about the murder I suppose <\/i><\/p>\n
Yes<\/i><\/p>\n
That was nice of you <\/i><\/p>\n
They needed to know <\/i><\/p>\n
Why are you obsessed with the murder?<\/i><\/p>\n
Because the boyfriend did not commit the murder<\/i><\/p>\n
How do you know?<\/i><\/p>\n
Because he was a homosexual and was being fucked by the owner of the house<\/i><\/p>\n
He came around for his Wednesday afternoon fuck and disturbed the murderer <\/i><\/p>\n
Who killed him?<\/i><\/p>\n
Correct \u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n
Who owned the house in 1959?<\/i><\/p>\n
A man called Dale Grant <\/i><\/p>\n
Was he rich?<\/i><\/p>\n
What do you think?<\/i><\/p>\n
He had made a fortune in property and that house was his ocean hideaway and also the place where he fucked his boys<\/i><\/p>\n
Did he pay them?<\/i><\/p>\n
Of course <\/i><\/p>\n
And the boyfriend?<\/i><\/p>\n
He was being paid <\/i><\/p>\n
What did the maid make of it all? <\/i><\/p>\n
Grant made her walk around with no panties on to see if it turned on any of his rent boys if they became hard then he would throw them out <\/i><\/p>\n
So he was not bisexual?<\/i><\/p>\n
No one hundred per cent queer<\/i><\/p>\n
So are you saying he killed the Chinese maid? <\/i><\/p>\n
No he was a fat shit but he was not home when the murders took place <\/i><\/p>\n
This is like the movie <\/i><\/p>\n
No that was about a serial killer <\/i><\/p>\n
This person killed only twice <\/i><\/p>\n
The Chinese maid and her boyfriend <\/i><\/p>\n
They why did the so called boyfriend call on that day<\/i><\/p>\n
Because he was fucking the Chinese maid <\/i><\/p>\n
And they were discovered<\/i><\/p>\n
Was she an illegal?<\/i><\/p>\n
Yes she had been in the state illegally for nearly a year after slipping across the Canadian border<\/i><\/p>\n
Surely the cops did not fall for the jealous boyfriend card <\/i><\/p>\n
You are fucking me correct<\/i><\/p>\n
Yes <\/i><\/p>\n
I am also fucking Gary so that I can stay in this lovely apartment <\/i><\/p>\n
I know needs must <\/i><\/p>\n
Are you not jealous?<\/i><\/p>\n
No I like Gary <\/i><\/p>\n
He likes to do kinky things <\/i><\/p>\n
Such as <\/i><\/p>\n
Threesomes with his mates <\/i><\/p>\n
Girl on girl <\/i><\/p>\n
You are just bating me Nelly <\/i><\/p>\n
I know but did you not feel a bit of jealousy? <\/i><\/p>\n
No<\/i><\/p>\n
I knew you were lying <\/i><\/p>\n
But if I had not been lying <\/i><\/p>\n
It is 2022 things happen <\/i><\/p>\n
It is 2016 Milne <\/i><\/p>\n
I always work six years ahead Nelly <\/i><\/p>\n
That is well known <\/i><\/p>\n
So to you the murder tool place in 1965<\/i><\/p>\n
Of course <\/i><\/p>\n
I know that you are fucking Rebecca <\/i><\/p>\n
Are you jealous? <\/i><\/p>\n
No <\/i><\/p>\n
Then why ask?<\/i><\/p>\n
Because I am fucking Rebecca <\/i><\/p>\n
I know <\/i><\/p>\n
Are you not jealous that at times I prefer female company?<\/i><\/p>\n
It is 2022 things happen <\/i><\/p>\n
It is 2016 Milne <\/i><\/p>\n
I always work six years ahead Nelly <\/i><\/p>\n
That is well known <\/i><\/p>\n
So to you the murder tool place in 1965<\/i><\/p>\n
Of course<\/i><\/p>\n
If the boyfriend did not kill the Chinese maid then who did kill her?<\/i><\/p>\n
I am not sure that is why I asked you here this afternoon <\/i><\/p>\n
What do you want me to do? <\/i><\/p>\n
Call Rebecca<\/i><\/p>\n
What<\/i><\/p>\n
Call Rebecca <\/i><\/p>\n
Why? <\/i><\/p>\n
Because she is Swiss<\/i><\/p>\n
What has that got to do with it? <\/i><\/p>\n
The lady in lilac was Swiss <\/i><\/p>\n
She was a fictional character <\/i><\/p>\n
She was Rebecca\u2019s maternal grandmother<\/i><\/p>\n
Kenny is right you are on something Nelly <\/i><\/p>\n
It all falls into place <\/i><\/p>\n
The lady in lilac was also in the house when the boyfriend called and when she caught them together she blew them away <\/i><\/p>\n
And made it look like a murder-suicide <\/i><\/p>\n
Yes<\/i><\/p>\n
What was her motive?<\/i><\/p>\n
She was fucking Dale Grant <\/i><\/p>\n
I thought you said that he was one hundred per cent queer <\/i><\/p>\n
That is what he liked people to think <\/i><\/p>\n
Where is he now?<\/i><\/p>\n
Dead<\/i><\/p>\n
Rebecca killed him in 1965<\/i><\/p>\n
Rebecca was not born in 1965<\/i><\/p>\n
She was <\/i><\/p>\n
Well she must have been very young <\/i><\/p>\n
What did she do throw her rattle at him? <\/i><\/p>\n
Have you ever heard of time travel Milne? <\/i><\/p>\n
I am losing it Nelly you are frying my brain <\/i><\/p>\n
You must agree with me <\/i><\/p>\n
Let\u2019s see<\/i><\/p>\n
One a minor character from a Russian novel killed a Chinese maid who was working illegally in this state <\/i><\/p>\n
Two Rebecca is the maternal granddaughter of this fictional character and murdered Dale Grant in 1965<\/i><\/p>\n
1971 to you <\/i><\/p>\n
Ok 1971<\/i><\/p>\n
And three that quiet studious woman who we share can travel in time <\/i><\/p>\n
Yes <\/i><\/p>\n
Milne am I wearing flip flops? <\/i><\/p>\n
Yes because the tiles are hot <\/i><\/p>\n
I am not wearing flip flops <\/i><\/p>\n
You are I can see them <\/i><\/p>\n
They are pale blue <\/i><\/p>\n
I am not wearing flip flops <\/i><\/p>\n
You are they are pale blue <\/i><\/p>\n
In 2022 I will be wearing blue flip flops but I have not purchased them yet <\/i><\/p>\n
What year is it Milne? <\/i><\/p>\n
2016<\/i><\/p>\n
That is why I am bare footed <\/i><\/p>\n
I prefer not to wear shoes <\/i><\/p>\n
Even on hot tiles <\/i><\/p>\n
The tiles are not hot <\/i><\/p>\n
Nelly stood up and waved to a woman who was entering the house where the Chinese maid was murdered<\/p>\n
Who are you waving at?<\/i><\/p>\n
Mr Jacobson\u2019s daughter <\/i><\/p>\n
Do I know her?<\/i><\/p>\n
You should do we both fuck her <\/i><\/p>\n
Rebecca? <\/i><\/p>\n
You rang her don\u2019t you remember <\/i><\/p>\n
I have not used my phone this afternoon <\/i><\/p>\n
You rang her ten minutes ago asking her to come across <\/i><\/p>\n
I have no recollection of doing so <\/i><\/p>\n
What year is it Milne <\/i><\/p>\n
2022<\/i><\/p>\n
You rang her at 15.13 on the 6th<\/sup> of June 2016 here is the record <\/i><\/p>\n Nelly was examining my phone<\/p>\n Here listen to your call<\/i><\/p>\n Hi Rebecca this is Milne what are you doing? <\/i><\/p>\n Not much just enjoying the sun <\/i><\/p>\n Are you naked? <\/i><\/p>\n Yes<\/i><\/p>\n Do you want to come across to Nelly\u2019s apartment for some fun? <\/i><\/p>\n Both of you together <\/i><\/p>\n Yes that is the general idea <\/i><\/p>\n Is Nelly up for it? <\/i><\/p>\n Nelly is up for anything<\/i><\/p>\n Then I will be at the Jacobson\u2019s house in fifteen minutes <\/i><\/p>\n Why the Jacobson\u2019s house?<\/i><\/p>\n We are investigating a murder you said <\/i><\/p>\n No I was inviting you around for some fun<\/i><\/p>\n I am sure that my grandmother committed the crime<\/i><\/p>\n Do not forget to dress <\/i><\/p>\n I am already dressed \u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n I handed my phone to Nelly<\/p>\n Is Kenny coming back?<\/i><\/p>\n Kenny <\/i><\/p>\n Your brother Kenny <\/i><\/p>\n I have a sister called Rebecca but not a brother <\/i><\/p>\n He was here an hour ago <\/i><\/p>\n No I was alone <\/i><\/p>\n You were in bed with him when I arrived <\/i><\/p>\n He was fucking your brains out <\/i><\/p>\n Don\u2019t you remember I watched the ball game whilst you both showered?<\/i><\/p>\n I have not showered today\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n Smell me <\/i><\/p>\n Nelly leaned forward and lifted her arm<\/p>\n I must stink of sweat <\/i><\/p>\n You smell perfumed <\/i><\/p>\n I stink<\/p>\n No you smell of lilacs<\/p>\n The Chinese maid was slumped against the wall<\/p>\n She had been shot through her left eye<\/p>\n The boyfriend was also dead he had been shot in the temple<\/p>\n See it was the perfect murder- suicide <\/i><\/p>\n What year is it? <\/i><\/p>\n 1959<\/i><\/p>\n I was sniffing your lilac armpit seconds ago <\/i><\/p>\n It was 2022<\/i><\/p>\n 2016<\/i><\/p>\n So how could it be 1959?<\/i><\/p>\n You ask too many questions Lake <\/i><\/p>\n My name is Milne <\/i><\/p>\n In 1959 you were called Lake <\/i><\/p>\n I am returning to the apartment <\/i><\/p>\n That cannot happen Why? <\/i><\/p>\n Gary\u2019s apartment was not built until 2013<\/i><\/p>\n Don\u2019t you remember you were one of the builders?<\/i><\/p>\n That is where I met you <\/i><\/p>\n So where is the lady in lilac?<\/i><\/p>\n In Pasternak\u2019s novel as she has always been <\/i><\/p>\n Fictional characters cannot come to life <\/i><\/p>\n She was a figment of his imagination <\/i><\/p>\n So who killed the Chinese maid? <\/i><\/p>\n The boyfriend <\/i><\/p>\n She had given him a disease which he had passed on to Dale who as you imagine was not all that pleased <\/i><\/p>\n Dale was his meal ticket <\/i><\/p>\n A rich queer who was quite straightforward in his tastes <\/i><\/p>\n That was no reason to kill her <\/i><\/p>\n He could just have reported her to the authorities and she would have been deported <\/i><\/p>\n Just in time<\/i><\/p>\n I know what you are going to say <\/i><\/p>\n I was just going to comment on the state of the world in 1959<\/i><\/p>\n Amerika was a good place to be <\/i><\/p>\n Why are you spelling America with a k? 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