Hills like white elephants. Part 2.
“That’s the way with everything.“
“Yes,“ said the girl. “Everything tastes of licorice. Especially all the
things you’ve waited so long for, like absinthe.“
“Oh, cut it out.“
“You started it,“ the girl said. “I was being amused. I was having a fine
time.“
“Well, let’s try and have a fine time.“
“All right. I was trying. I said the mountains looked like white elephants. Wasn’t that bright?“
“That was bright.“
“I wanted to try this new drink. That’s all we do, isn’t it—look at things
and try new drinks?“
“ I guess so.“
The girl looked across at the hills.
“They’re lovely hills,“ she said. “They don’t really look like white elephants. I just meant the coloring of their skin through the trees.“ “Should
we have another drink?“
“All right.“
The warm wind blew the bead curtain against the table.
“The beer’s nice and cool,“ the man said.
“It’s lovely,“ the girl said.
“It’s really an awfully simple operation, Jig,“ the man said. “It’s not
really an operation at all.“
The girl looked at the ground the table legs rested on.
“ I know you wouldn’t mind it, Jig. It’s really not anything. It’s just to let
the air in.“
The girl did not say anything.
“I’ll go with you and I’ll stay with you all the time. They just let the air in
and then it’s all perfectly natural.“
“Then what will we do afterward?“
“We’ll be fine afterward. Just like we were before.“
“What makes you think so?“
“That’s the only thing that bothers us. It’s the only thing that’s made us
unhappy.“
The girl looked at the bead curtain, put her hand out, and took hold of
two of the strings of beads.
“And you think then we’ll be all right and be happy.“
“I know we will. You don’t have to be afraid. I’ve known lots of people
that have done it.“
“So have I,“ said the girl. “And afterward they were all so happy.“
“Well,“ the man said, “if you don’t want to you don’t have to. I wouldn’t
have you do it if you didn’t want to. But I know it’s perfectly simple.“
“And you really want to?“
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