Act one of Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov, translated by Julius West. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Uncle Vanya, Scenes from Country Life, in four acts, by Anton Chekhov. Characters Alexander Serebrakov A retired professor Read by Andy Minter Helena His wife, 27 years old Read by Karen Savage Sonia His daughter by a former marriage Read by Elizabeth Klatt Madame Voitskaya Widow of a private counsellor and mother of Serebrakov's first wife Read by Ruth Golding Ivan Vanya Voitsky Her son Read by M.B. Astroff A doctor Read by Bruce Peary Ilya Waffles Telyakin An impoverished land owner By Bologna Times Marina An old nurse Read by Ariel Libshaw Workman and Watchman, read by Miles Espayet Narrated by Avayee The scene is laid on Serebrakov's country place. Act 1 A country house on a terrace In front of it a garden In an avenue of trees under an old poplar stands a table set for tea with a samovar, etc. Some benches and chairs stand near the table On one of them is lying a guitar A hammock is swung near the table It is three o'clock in the afternoon on a cloudy day Marina, a quiet, grey-haired, little old woman, is sitting at the table knitting a stocking Astroff is walking up and down near her Pouring some tea into a glass Take a little tea, my son Takes the glass from her unwillingly Somehow I don't seem to want any Then will you have a little vodka instead? No, I don't drink vodka every day And besides, it is too hot now Tell me, nurse, how long have we known each other? Let me see How long is it? Lord help me to remember You first came here into our parts Let me think, when was it? Sonia's mother was still alive It was two winters before she died that was eleven years ago Perhaps more Have I changed much since then?  Because I am overworked Nurse, I am on my feet from dawn till dusk I know no rest At night I tremble under my blankets For fear of being dragged out to visit someone who is sick I have toiled without repose or a day's freedom Since I have known you Could I help growing old?  No During the third week of Lent I went to the epidemic at Malitskoy It was eruptive typhoid The peasants were all lying side by side in their huts And the calves and pigs were running about the floor Among the sick Such dirt there was and smoke unspeakable I slaved among those people all day Not a crumb past my lips But when I got home there was still no rest for me A switch man was carried in from the railroad I laid him on the operating table And he went and died in my arms under chloroform And then my feelings that should have been deadened Awoke again My conscience tortured me as if I had killed the man I sat down and closed my eyes Like this And thought Will our descendants two hundred years from now For whom we are breaking the road Remember to give us a kind word No nurse they will forget Man is forgetful, but God remembers Thank you for that You have spoken the truth Enter Wojcicki from the house He has been asleep after dinner and looks rather disheveled He sits down on the bench and straightens his collar Hmm, yes Yes Have you been asleep? Yes, very much so Ugh Ever since the professor and his wife have come Our daily life seems to have jumped the track I sleep at the wrong time, drink wine And eat all sorts of messes for lunch and end dinner It isn't wholesome Sonya and I used to work together and never had an idle moment But now Sonya works alone and I only eat and drink and sleep Something is wrong Shaking her head Such a confusion in the house The professor gets up at twelve The samovar is kept boiling all the morning And everything has to wait for him Before they came we used to have dinner at one o'clock Like everybody else, but now we have it at seven The professor sits up all night writing and reading And suddenly at two o'clock there goes the bell Heavens, what is that? The professor wants some tea Wake the servants light the samovar Lord, what disorder Will they be here long? A hundred years The professor has decided to make his home here Look at this now The samovar has been on the table for two hours And they are all out walking Alright, don't get excited Here they come Voices are heard approaching Serebrakov, Helena, Sonya and Telegin Coming from the depths of the garden Returning from the walk Superb, superb What beautiful views They are wonderful, Your Excellency Tomorrow we shall go into the woods Shall we, Papa? Ladies and gentlemen, tea is ready Won't you please be good enough to send my tea into the library? I still have some work to finish I am sure you will love the woods Helena, Serebrakov and Sonya go into the house Telegin sits down at the table beside Marina There goes our learned scholar on a hot, sultry day like this It is overcoating gloshes and carrying an umbrella He is trying to take good care of his health How lovely she is How lovely I have never in my life seen a more beautiful woman Do you know, Marina, that as I walk in the fields Or in the shady garden As I look at this table here My heart swells with unbounded happiness The weather is enchanting, the birds are singing We are all living in peace and contentment What more could the soul desire?  Haven't you any news for us? No, it is all stale I am just the same as usual or perhaps worse Because I have become lazy I don't do anything now But croak like an old raven My mother, the old magpie Is still chattering about the emancipation of woman With one eye on her grave And the other on her learned books In which she is always looking for the dawn of a new life And the professor? The professor sits in his library From morning till night as usual Straining the mind, wrinkling the brow We write, write, write without respite Or hope of praise in the future or now Poor paper He ought to write his autobiography He would make a really splendid subject for a book Imagine it, the life of a retired professor As stale as a piece of hard tack Tortured by gout headaches and rheumatism His liver bursting with jealousy and envy Living on the estate of his first wife Although he hates it Because he can't afford to live in town He is everlastingly wiling about his hard lot Though as a matter of fact He is extraordinarily lucky He is the son of a common deacon And has attained the professor's chair Become the son-in-law of a senator Is called your Excellency and so on But I'll tell you something The man has been writing on art for 25 years And he doesn't know the very first thing about it For 25 years he's been chewing on other men's thoughts About realism, naturalism and all such foolishness For 25 years he's been reading and writing things That clever men have long known And stupid ones are not interested in For 25 years he's been making his imaginary mountains Out of molehills And just think of the man's self-conceit And presumption all this time For 25 years he has been masquerading in false clothes And has now retired absolutely unknown To any living soul And yet see him stalking across the earth Like a demigod I believe you envy him Yes, I do Look at the success he's had with women Don Juan himself was not more favored His first wife, who was my sister Was a beautiful, gentle being As pure as the blue heaven there above us Noble, great-hearted With more admirers than he has pupils And she loved him as only beings of angelic purity Can love those who are as pure and beautiful as themselves His mother-in-law, my mother, adores him to this day And he still inspires a sort of worshipful awe in her His second wife is, as you see, a brilliant beauty She married him in his old age And has surrendered all the glory of her beauty and freedom to him Why? What for? Is she faithful to him? Yes, unfortunately she is Why, unfortunately? Because such fidelity is false and unnatural Root and branch, it sounds well But there is no logic in it It is thought immoral for a woman To deceive an old husband whom she hates But quite moral for her to strangle her poor youth in her breast And banish every vital desire from her heart Vanya, I don't like to hear you talk so Listen, Vanya, everyone who betrays husband or wife Is faithless and could also betray his country Turn off the tap waffles No, allow me, Vanya My wife ran away with a lover On the day after our wedding Because my exterior was unprepossessing I have never failed in my duty since then I love her and am true to her to this day I help her all I can And have given my fortune to educate the daughter of herself and her lover I have forfeited my happiness But I have kept my pride And she, her youth has fled Her beauty has faded according to the laws of nature And her lover is dead What has she kept? Helena and Sonja come in After them comes Madame Wojcaya carrying a book She sits down and begins to read Someone hands her a glass of tea Which she drinks without looking up Sonja, hurriedly to the nurse There are some peasants waiting out there Go and see what they want The tea Pours out some glasses of tea Marina goes out Helena takes a glass and sits drinking in the hammock I have come to see your husband You wrote me that he had rheumatism And I know not what else and that he was very ill But he appears to be as lively as a cricket He had a fit of the blues yesterday evening And complained of pains in his legs But he seems all right again today And I galloped over here Twenty miles at breakneck speed No matter though, it's not the first time Once here, however, I am going to stay until tomorrow And at any rate, sleep, quantum status Oh, splendid!  No Good, so you will have it with us We dine at seven now Drinks her tea This tea is cold Yes, the samovar has grown cold Don't mind, Monsieur Yvonne We will drink cold tea then I beg your pardon, my name is not Yvonne But Ilya, ma'am Ilya Tellegen Or waffles, as I am sometimes called On account of my pockmarked face I am Sonia's godfather And his excellency, your husband Knows me very well I now live with you, ma'am, on this estate And perhaps you will be so good as to notice That I dine with you every day He is our great help, our right-hand man Dear godfather, let me pour you some tea Oh, oh! What is it, grandmother? I forgot to tell Alexander I've lost my memory I received a letter today from Paula Lechsevich in Karkov He has sent me a new pamphlet Is it interesting? That's but strange He refutes the very theories Which he defended seven years ago It is appalling There is nothing appalling about it Drink your tea, mama It seems you never want to listen To what I have to say Pardon me, Jean But you have changed so in the last year That I hardly know you You used to be a man of settled convictions And had an illuminating personality Yes, I had an illuminating personality Which illuminated no one I had an illuminating personality You couldn't say anything more biting I'm 47 years old Until last year I endeavored as you do now To blind my eyes by your pedantry to the truths of life But now Oh, if you only knew If you knew how I lie awake at night Heart-sick and angry to think how stupidly I've wasted my time When I might have been winning from life Everything which my old age now forbids Uncle Vanya, how dreary To her son You speak as if your former convictions Were somehow to blame But you yourself, not they, were at fault You have forgotten that a conviction in itself Is nothing but a dead letter You should have done something Done something? Not every man is capable of being a writer Perpetual mobility like your hair professor What do you mean by that? Mother, Uncle Vanya, I entreat you I am silent I apologize and am silent What a fine day Not too hot Fine day to hang oneself Telekin tunes the guitar Marina appears near the house Calling the chickens Chick, chick, chick What did the peasants want, nurse? The same old thing, the same old nonsense Chick, chick, chick Why are you calling the chickens? The speckled hen has disappeared with her chicks I'm afraid the crows have got her Telekin plays a polka Listen in silence Enter workmen Is the doctor here? To Astrof Excuse me, sir, but I've been sent to fetch you Where are you from? The factory Thank you, there is nothing for it then but to go Looking around him for his cap Damn it, this is annoying Yes, it is too bad, really You must come back to dinner from the factory No, I won't be able to do that Too late Now, where, where? To the workmen Look here, my man, get me a glass of vodka, will you? The workman goes out Where, where? Finds his cap One of the characters in Astrof's plays Is a man with a long mustache and short wits, like me However, let me bid you good-bye, ladies and gentlemen To Helena I should be really delighted if you would come to see me some day with Miss Sonja My estate is small, but if you are interested in such things I should like to show you a nursery and seed-bed Whose, like you, will not find within a thousand miles of here My place is surrounded by government forests The forester is old and always ailing So I super intend almost all the work myself I have always heard that you were very fond of the woods Of course, one can do a great deal of good by helping to preserve them But does not that work into fear with your real calling?  Yes, very Oh, extremely! You are still young, not over thirty-six or seven, I should say And I suspect that the woods do not interest you as much as you say they do I should think you would find them monotonous No, the work is thrilling Dr. Ostroff watches over the old woods and sets out new plantations every year And he has already received a diploma in a bronze medal If you will listen to what he can tell you, you will agree with him entirely He says that forests are the ornaments of the earth That they teach mankind to understand beauty And attune his mind to lofty sentiments Forests temper a stern climate And in countries where the climate is milder Less strength is wasted in the battle with nature And the people are kind and gentle The inhabitants of such countries are handsome Tractable, sensitive, graceful in speech and gesture Their philosophy is joyous Art and science blossom among them Their treatment of women is full of exquisite nobility Bravo! Bravo! Oh, that is very pretty, but it is also unconvincing To Ostroff? So, my friend, you must let me go on burning firewood in my stoves And building my sheds of planks You can burn peat in your stoves and build your sheds of stone Oh, I don't object, of course, to cutting wood from necessity But why destroy the forests? The woods of Russia are trembling under the blows of the axe Millions of trees have perished The homes of the wild animals and birds have been desolated The rivers are shrinking and many beautiful landscapes are gone forever And why?   Man is endowed with reason and the power to create So that he may increase that which has been given him But until now he has not created, but demolished The forests are disappearing The rivers are running dry The game is exterminated, the climate is spoiled And the earth becomes poorer and uglier every day To Wojcicki? I read irony in your eye You do not take what I am saying seriously And after all it may very well be nonsense But when I pass peasant forests that I have preserved from the axe Or hear the rustling of the young plantation set out with my own hands I feel as if I had had some small share in improving the climate And that if mankind is happy a thousand years from now I will have been a little bit responsible for their happiness When I plant a little birch tree and then see it budding Into young green and swaying in the wind My heart swells with pride and I... Sees the workman who is bringing him a glass of vodka on a tray However... He drinks I must be off Probably it is all nonsense anyway Goodbye He goes toward the house Sonja takes his arm and goes with him When are you coming to see us again? I can't say In a month?   I think it is because we are both lonely and unfortunate Yes, unfortunate Don't look at me in that way, I don't like it How can I look at you otherwise when I love you?  Let me speak to you of my love, do not drive me away And this alone will be my greatest happiness This is agony Telekin strikes the strings of his guitar and plays a polka Madame Wojcaya writes something on the leaves of her pamphlet The curtain falls End of Act 1 Act 2 of Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekov Translated by Julius West This is a LibriVox recording All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain For more information or to volunteer please visit LibriVox.org Act 2 The dining room of Serebrakov's house It is night The tapping of the watchman's rattle is heard in the garden Serebrakov is dosing in an armchair by an open window And Helena is sitting beside him, also half asleep Rousing himself Who is here? Is it you, Sonia? It is I Oh, it's you, Nelly.  I'm suffocating I dreamt just now that my left leg belonged to someone else It hurts so that I woke I don't believe this is gout It's more like rheumatism What time is it? Half past twelve I want you to look for Batushka's works in the library tomorrow I think we have him What is that? Look for Batushka tomorrow morning We used to have him, I remember Why do I find it so hard to breathe?   Haven't I deserved it? Haven't I? I ask you the right to be respected Now that I'm old No one is disputing your rights The window slams in the wind The wind is rising, I must shut the window She shuts it We shall have rain in a moment Your rights have never been questioned by anybody The watchman in the garden sounds his rattle I have spent my life working in the interest of learning I'm used to my library and the lecture hall And to the esteem and admiration of my colleagues Now I suddenly find myself plunged in this wilderness Condemned to see the same stupid people from morning to night And listen to their futile conversation I want to live a long for success and fame And the stir of the world and here I am in exile Oh, it is dreadful to spend every moment grieving For the lost past To see the success of others and sit here with nothing to do But to fear death I cannot stand it It's more than I can bear And you will not even forgive me for being old Wait, have patience I shall be old myself in four or five years Sonja comes in Father, you sent for Dr. Ostrov And now when he comes he refused to see him It is not nice to give a man so much trouble for nothing What do I care about your astroph? He understands medicine, about as well as I understand astronomy We can't send for the whole medical faculty can way to treat your gout I won't talk to that madman Do as you please, it's all the same to me She sits down What time is it? One o'clock Oh, it's stifling in here Sonja, hand me that bottle on the table Here it is She hands him a bottle of medicine No, not that one Can't you understand me? Can't I ask you to do a thing? Please, don't be captious with me Some people may like it But you must spare me if you please, because I don't Besides, I haven't the time We are cutting the hay tomorrow and I must get up early Wojcicki comes in, dressed in a long gown and carrying a candle A thunderstorm is coming up The lightning flashes There it is Go to bed, Helena and Sonja I've come to take your place No, no, no, don't leave me alone with him Don't, he'll begin to lecture me But you must give them a little rest They have not slept for two nights Then let them go to bed, but you go away too Thank you I implore you to go For the sake of our former friendship Do not protest against going We will talk some other time Our former friendship Our former... Hush, Uncle Vanya To his wife My darling, don't leave me alone with him He will begin to lecture me This is ridiculous Marina comes in, carrying a candle Oh, you must go to bed, nurse, it is late I haven't cleared away the tea things Can't go to bed yet Oh, no one can go to bed, they're all born out Only I enjoy perfect happiness Goes up to Zerebrakov and speaks tenderly What's the matter, master? Does it hurt?  What is to become of them? This wonderful feeling of mine will be wasted and lost As a ray of sunlight is lost that falls into a dark chasm And my life will go with it I am as it were benumbed when you speak to me of your love And I don't know how to answer you Forgive me, I have nothing to say to you She tries to go out Good night Barring the way If you only knew how I am tortured by the thought But beside me in this house is another life that is being lost forever It is yours! What are you waiting for? What accursed philosophy stands in your way? Oh, understand! Understand! Looking at him intently Ivan, you are drunk Perhaps Perhaps Where is the doctor? In there, spending the night with me Perhaps I am drunk Perhaps I am Nothing is impossible Have you just been drinking together? Why do you do that?  Really, this has become too disagreeable Helena goes out Alone She's gone I met her first ten years ago At her sister's house When she was seventeen and I was thirty-seven Why did I not fall in love with her then And propose to her? It would have been so easy And now she would have been my wife Yes, we would both have been waked tonight By the thunderstorm And she would have been frightened But I would have held her in my arms and whispered Don't be afraid I'm here Oh enchanting dream So sweet that I laughed to think of it But my god, my head reels Why am I so old? Why won't she understand me? I hate all that rhetoric of hers That morality of indolence That absurd talk about the destruction of the world Oh, how I have been deceived For years I have worshipped that miserable gout-ridden professor So yet I have squeezed this estate dry for his sake We have bartered our butter and curds and peas like misers And have never kept a morsel for ourselves So that we could scrape enough pennies together to send to him I was proud of him and of his learning I received all his words and writings as inspired And now? Now he has retired and what is the total of his life? A blank He's absolutely unknown and his fame is burst like a soap bubble I have been deceived, I see that now Basically deceived Astrof comes in He has his coat on but is without his waistcoat or collar and is slightly drunk Telegin follows him carrying a guitar Play But everyone is asleep Play Telegin begins to play softly Are you alone here, no women about?  The thunderstorm woke me, it was a heavy shower, what time is it? The devil only knows I thought I heard Helena's voice She was here a moment ago What a beautiful woman Looking at the medicine bottles on the table Medicine is it, what a variety we have Prescriptions from Moscow, from Karkov, from Tula He has been pestering all the towns of Russia with his gout Is he ill or simply shamming? He's really ill What is the matter with you tonight, you seem sad Is it because you are sorry for the professor? Leave me alone Or in love with the professor's wife She's my friend Already What do you mean by already? A woman can only become a man's friend after having first Being his acquaintance and then his beloved Then she becomes his friend What vulgar philosophy What do you mean? Yes, I must confess I am getting vulgar But then you see I am drunk I usually only drink like this once a month At such times my audacity and temerity know no bounds I feel capable of anything I attempt the most difficult operations and do them magnificently The most brilliant plans for the future take shape in my head I am no longer a poor fool of a doctor but mankind's greatest benefactor I evolve my own system of philosophy And all of you seem to crawl at my feet like so many insects or microbes To Telegin Play, Waffles My dear boy, I would with all my heart but do listen to reason Everybody in the house is asleep Play Telegin plays softly I want a drink Come, we still have some brandy left And then as soon as it is day you will come home with me He sees Sonja who comes in at that moment I beg your pardon, I have no collar on He goes out quickly followed by Telegin Uncle Vanya, you and the doctor have been drinking The good fellows have been getting together It's all very well for him, he's always done it But why do you follow his example?  Oh, if you only knew If you only knew If she only knew what, uncle? Oh, my heart's bursting, it is awful No matter though I must go He goes out Knocks at the door Dr. Ostrov, are you awake? Please come here for a minute Behind the door In a moment He appears in a few seconds He has put on his collar and waistcoat What do you want? Drink as much as you please yourself if you don't find it revolting But I implore you not to let my uncle do it It is bad for him Very well, we won't drink any more I'm going home at once, that is settled It will be done by the time the horses are harnessed It is still raining, wait till morning The storm is blowing over, this is only the edge of it I must go, and please don't ask me to come and see your father any more I tell him he has gout and he says it is rheumatism I tell him to lie down and he sits up Today he refused to see me at all He has been spoiled She looks in the sideboard Won't you have a bite to eat? Yes, please, I believe I will I love to eat at night I am sure we shall find something in here They say that he has made a great many conquests in his life And that the women have spoiled him Here is some cheese for you They stand eating by the sideboard I haven't eaten anything today Your father has a very difficult nature He takes a bottle out of the sideboard May I? He pours himself a glass of vodka We are alone here and I can speak frankly Do you know I could not stand living in this house for even a month? This atmosphere would stifle me There is your father entirely absorbed in his books and his gout There is your uncle Vanya with his hypochondria Your grandmother and finally your stepmother What about her? A human being should be entirely beautiful The face, the clothes, the mind, the thoughts Your stepmother is of course beautiful to look at But don't you see? She does nothing but sleep and eat and walk and bewitch us And that is all She has no responsibilities Everything is done for her, am I not right? And an idle life can never be a pure one However, I may be judging her too severely Like your uncle Vanya, I am discontented And so we are both grumblers Aren't you satisfied with life?  I work, let you know, as no one else in the country works Fate beats me on without rest At times I suffer uninsurably And I see no light ahead I have no hope I do not like people It is long since I have loved anyone You love no one?    Oh, don't, I implore you not to I entreat you Gives her his hand I won't drink any more Promise me I give you my word of honour Squeezing his hand Thank you I have done with it You see, I am perfectly sober again And so I shall stay till the end of my life He looks his watch But, as I was saying, life holds nothing for me My race is run I am old, I am tired, I am trivial My sensibilities are dead I could never attach myself to anyone again I love no one and never shall Beauty alone has the power to touch me still I am deeply moved by it Helena could turn my head in a day if she wanted to But that is not love That is not affection He shudders and covers his face with his hands What is it? Nothing During Lent one of my patients died under chloroform It is time to forget that Tell me, doctor If I had a friend or a younger sister And if you knew that she Well, loved you What would you do? Shrugging his shoulders I don't know I don't think I should do anything I should make her understand that I could not return her love However, my mind is not bothered about those things now I must start it once if I am ever to get off Goodbye, my dear girl At this rate we shall stand here talking till morning He shakes hands with her I shall go out through the sitting room Because I am afraid your uncle might detain me He goes out Alone? Not a word His heart and soul are still locked from me And yet for some reason I am strangely happy I wonder why I told him that he was well-bred and handsome And that his voice was sweet Was that a mistake?  He is gone Sonya? Yes How much longer are you going to sulk at me? We have not hurt each other Why not be friends? We have had enough of this I myself She embraces Helena Let us make peace With all my heart They are both moved Has Papa gone to bed? No, he is sitting up in the drawing room Heaven knows what reason you and I had For not speaking to each other for weeks Sees the open sideboard Who left the sideboard open? Dr. Ostrov has just had supper There is some wine Let us seal our friendship Yes, let us Out of one glass She feels a wine glass So, we are friends are we? Yes They drink and kiss each other I have long wanted to make friends but Somehow I was ashamed too Why are you crying?  Truly, no I knew it One more question Do you wish your husband were young?   He has just gone out And his voice is still in my ears I hear his step I see his face in the dark window Let me say all I have in my heart But no, I cannot speak of it so loudly I am ashamed Come to my room and let me tell you there I seem foolish to you, don't I? Talk to me of him What can I say? He is clever He can do everything He can cure the sick and plant woods It is not a question of medicine and woods, my dear He is a man of genius Do you know what that means? It means he is brave, profound, and of clear insight He plants his tree And his mind travels a thousand years into the future And he sees visions of the happiness of the human race People like him are rare and should be loved What if he does drink and act roughly at times? A man of genius cannot be a saint in Russia There he lives, cut off from the world By cold and storm and endless roads of bottomless mud Surrounded by a rough people who are crushed by poverty and disease His life, one continuous struggle with never a day's respite How can a man live like that for forty years And keep himself sober and unspotted? Kissing Sonja I wish you happiness with all my heart You deserve it She gets up As for me I am a worthless futile woman I have always been futile In music, in love, in my husband's house In a word, in everything When you come to think of it, Sonja I am really very, very unhappy Walks excitedly up and down Happiness can never exist for me in this world Never Why do you laugh? Laughing and covering her face with her hands I am so happy I want to hear music I might play a little Oh, do, do She embraces her I could not possibly go to sleep now Do play Yes, I will Your father is still awake Music irritates him when he is ill But if he says I may Then I shall play a little Ghost Sonja and ask him Very well She goes out The watchman's rattle is heard in the garden It is long since I have heard music And now I shall sit and play And weep like a fool Speaking out of the window Is that you battling out there, Afim? It is I Don't make such a noise, your master is ill I am going away this minute Sonja comes back He says No The curtain falls End of Act 2 Act 3 of Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov Translated by Julius West This is a LibriVox recording All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain For more information or to volunteer Please visit LibriVox.org Act 3 The drawing room of Serebrakov's house There are three doors One to the right One to the left And one in the center of the room Wojcicki and Sonja are sitting down Helena is walking up and down Absorbed in thought We were asked by the professor To be here at one o'clock Looks at his watch It is now a quarter to one It seems he has some communication To make to the world Probably a matter of business He never had any business He writes twaddle, grumbles And eats his heart out with jealousy That's all he does Uncle All right I beg your pardon He points to Helena Look at her Wandering up and down From sheer idleness A sweet picture, really I wonder you are not bored Drowning on in the same key From morning till night I am dying of this tedium Frogging her shoulders There is plenty to do if you would For instance You could help run this place Teach the children, care for the sick Isn't that enough? Before you and Papa came Uncle Vanya and I used to go to market ourselves To deal in flower I don't know anything about such things And besides they don't interest me It is only in novels that women go out And teach and heal the peasants How can I suddenly begin to do it? How can you live here and not do it? Embraces her Wait a while You will get used to it all Don't be sad, dearest You feel miserable and restless And can't seem to fit into this life And your restlessness is catching Look at Uncle Vanya He does nothing now But haunt you like a shadow And I have left my work today To come here and talk with you Because I am getting lazy And don't want to go on with it Dr. Ostrov hardly ever used to come here It was all we could do to persuade him To visit us once a month And now he has abandoned his forestry And his practice and comes every day You must be a witch Why should you languish here?  Give your nature the reins for once In your life Fall head over ears in love With some other water sprite And plunge down head first into a deep pool So that the hair professor And all of us may have our hands free again Leave me alone How cruel you are She tries to go out Preventing her Oh, there, there, my beauty Apologize? He kisses her hand Forgive me Confess that you would try the patience of an angel As a peace offering I'm going to fetch some flowers Which I picked for you this morning Some autumn roses Beautiful, sorrowful roses He goes out Autumn roses Beautiful, sorrowful roses She and Helena What a beautiful window September already How shall we live through the long winter here? Where is the doctor? He is writing in Uncle Vanya's room I'm glad Uncle Vanya has gone out I want to talk to you about something About what? About what?  No He never notices me He is a strange man Listen, Sonia I shall be careful, only a hint Really, to be an uncertainty all these years Let me do it Sonia nods an affirmative Splendid It will be easy to find out whether he loves you or not Don't be ashamed, sweetheart, don't worry I shall be careful, he will not notice a thing We only want to find out whether it is yes or no, don't we? And if it is no Then he must keep away from here, is that so? Sonia nods It will be easier not to see him any more We won't put off the examination in an instant He said he had a sketch to show me Go and tell him at once that I want to see him Will you tell me the whole truth? Of course I will I am sure that no matter what it is It will be easier for you to bear than this uncertainty Trust me, dearest Yes, yes I shall say that you want to see his sketch She starts out But stops near the door and looks back No It is better not to know And yet there may be hope What do you say? Nothing She goes out Alone? There is no greater sorrow than to know another's secret When you cannot help them He is obviously not in love with her But why shouldn't he marry her? She is not pretty But she is so clever and pure and good She would make a splendid wife for a country doctor of his years I can understand how the poor child feels She lives here in this desperate loneliness With no one around her except these colourless shadows That go mooning about, talking nonsense And knowing nothing except that they eat, drink and sleep Among them appears from time to time this Dr. Astrof So different, so handsome, so interesting, so charming It is like seeing the moon rise on a dark night Oh, to surrender oneself to his embrace To lose oneself in his arms I am a little in love with him myself Yes, I am lonely without him And when I think of him I smile That Uncle Vanya says I have the blood of a nixie in my veins Give rain to your nature for once in your life Perhaps it is might that I should Oh, to be free as a bird To fly away from all your sleepy faces and your talk And forget that you have existed at all But I am a coward, I am afraid My conscience torments me He comes here every day now I can guess why and feel guilty already I should like to fall on my knees at Sonya's feet And beg her forgiveness and weep Astrof comes in carrying a portfolio How do you do? Shakes hands with her Do you want to see my sketch? Yes, you promised to show me what you had been doing Have you time now? Of course I have He lays the portfolio on the table Takes out the sketch and fastens it to the table With thumbtacks Where were you born? Helping him In St. Petersburg And educated? At the conservatory there You don't find this life very interesting, I dare say Oh, why not? It is true I don't know the country very well But I have read a great deal about it I have my own desk there in Ivan's room When I am absolutely too exhausted to go on I drop everything and rush over here to forget myself in this work For an hour or two Ivan and Miss Sonya sit rattling at their counting boards The cricket chirps And I sit beside them and paint Feeling warm and peaceful But I don't permit myself this luxury very often Only once a month Pointing to the picture Look there That is a map of our country as it was Fifty years ago The green tints both dark and light represent forests Half the map, as you see, is covered with it Where the green is striped with red The forests were inhabited by elk and wild goats Here, on this lake, lived great flocks of swans And geese and ducks As the old men say, there was a power of birds of every kind Now they have vanished like a cloud Beside the hamlets and the villages, you see I have dotted down here and there the various settlements Farms, hermits, caves, and water-mills This country carried a great many cattle and horses As you can see by the quantity of blue paint For instance, see how thickly it lies in this part There were great herds of them here An average of three horses to every house Now, look lower down This is the country as it was twenty-five years ago Only a third of the map is green now with forests There are no goats left and no elk The blue paint is lighter and so on and so on Now, we come to the third part Our country as it appears today We still see spots of green, but not much The elk, the swans, the black cock have disappeared It is, on the whole, the picture of a regular and slow decline Which it will evidently only take about ten or fifteen more years to complete You may perhaps object that it is the march of progress That the old order must give place to the new And you might be right if roads had been run through these ruined woods Or if factories and schools had taken their place The people then would have become better educated And healthier and richer, but as it is We have nothing of the sort We have the same swamps and mosquitoes The same disease and want The typhoid, the ditheria, the burning villages We are confronted by the degradation of our country Brought on by the fierce struggle for existence of the human race It is the consequence of the ignorance and unconsciousness Of starving, shivering, sick humanity That to save its children instinctively snatches At everything that can warm it and still its hunger So it destroys everything it can lay its hands on Without a thought for the moral And almost everything has gone And nothing has been created to take its place But I see by your face that I am not interesting you I know so little about such things There's nothing to know. It simply isn't interesting, that's all Frankly, my thoughts were elsewhere. Forgive me I want to submit you to a little examination But I am embarrassed and don't know how to begin An examination? Yes, but quite an innocent one. Sit down They sit down It is about a certain young girl I know Let us discuss it like honest people, like friends And then forget what is passed between us, shall we? Very well It is about my step-daughter Sonia Do you like her? Yes, I respect her Do you like her as a woman? No One more word and that will be the last You have not noticed anything? No, nothing Taking his hand You do not love her. I see that in your eyes She is suffering. You must realize that And not come here anymore My son has said yes, and then I haven't the time Shrugging his shoulders Where shall I find time for such things?  You understand I am actually blushing If you had spoken a month ago I might perhaps have considered it But now?     Here you have me.  Goodbye She tries to leave the room Goodbye. Don't say goodbye.  What hands? He kisses her hands Enough of this. She frees her hands Leave the room. You have forgotten yourself Tell me, tell me. Where can we meet tomorrow? He puts his arm around her Don't you see that we must meet? That it is inevitable He kisses her Wojcicki comes in carrying a bunch of roses and stops in the doorway Without seeing Wojcicki Have pity. Leave me Lays her head on Aztow's shoulder Don't She tries to break away from him Holding her by the waist Be in the forest tomorrow at two o'clock Will you? Will you? Sees Wojcicki Let me go Goes to the window deeply embarrassed This is appalling Wojcicki throws the flowers on a chair And speaks in great excitement Wiping his face with his handkerchief Nothing! Yes! Yes! Nothing! The weather is fine today, my dear Yvonne The morning was overcast and looked like rain But now the sun is shining again Honestly, we've had a very fine autumn And the wheat is looking fairly well Puts his map back into the portfolio But the days are growing short Goes quickly up to Wojcicki You must do your best You must use all your power to get my husband And myself away from here today Do you hear? I say this very day Wiping his face Oh! Ah! Oh! All right! I... Helena, I saw everything Do you hear me? I must leave here this very day Serebrakov, Sonja, Marina, Intelligent come in I'm not very well myself, Your Excellency I have been limping for two days in my head Where are the others?  I'll tell you later You are moved Looking quickly and inquiringly into her face I understand He said he would not come here any more Tell me, did he? Helena nods To Telegin One can, after all, become reconciled to being an invalid But not to this country life The ways of it sticking my throat And I feel exactly as if I had been world of the earth And landed on a strange planet Please be seated, ladies and gentlemen Sonja Sonja does not hear She is standing with her head bowed sadly forward on her breast Sonja She does not hear me To Marina Sit down, Tunis Marina sits down and begins to knit her stocking I crave your indulgence, ladies and gentlemen Hang your ears, if I may say so, on the peg of attention Perhaps you do not need me May I be excused? No, you are needed now more than anyone What is it you want of me? But what are you angry about? If it's anything I have done, I ask you to forgive me Oh, drop that and come to business What do you want? Madame Wojcaja comes in Here is mother Ladies and gentlemen, I shall begin I have asked you to assemble here, my friends In order to discuss a very important matter I want to ask you for your assistance and advice And knowing your unfailing amiability I think I can count on both I am a bookworm and a scholar And I am unfamiliar with practical affairs I cannot, I find, dispense with the help Of well-informed people such as you, Ivan And you, Telyagin And you, mother The truth is, many, omnis, all are knocks That is to say, our lives are in the hands of God And as I am old and ill I realise that the time has come for me To dispose of my property In regard to the interest of my family My life is nearly over And I am not thinking of myself But I have a young wife and daughter I cannot continue to live in the country We were not made for country life And yet we cannot afford to live in town On the income derived from this estate We might sell the woods, but that would be an expedient We could not resort to every year We must find some means of guaranteeing To ourselves a certain, more or less fixed Yearly income With this object in view A plan has occurred to me Which I now have the honour of presenting To you for your consideration I shall only give you a rough outline Avoiding all details Our estate does not pay, on an average More than 2% on the money invested in it I propose to sell it If we then invest our capital In bonds it will earn us 4 to 5% And we should probably have a surplus Over of several thousand rubles With which we could buy a summer cottage in Finland Hold on, repeat what you just said I don't think I heard you quite right I said we would invest the money in bonds And buy a cottage in Finland with the surplus No, not Finland, you said something else I propose to sell this place Aha, that was it So you're going to sell the place? Splendid, the idea is a rich one And what do you propose to do with my old mother and me And with Sonya here? That will be decided in due time We can't do everything at once Wait, it is clear that until this moment I have never had a grain of sense in my head I have always been stupid enough to think that The estate belonged to Sonya My father bought it as a wedding present for my sister And I foolishly imagined That as our laws were made for Russians and not Turks My sister's estate would come down to her child Of course it is Sonya's that anyone denied it I don't want to sell it without Sonya's consent On the contrary, what I am doing is for Sonya's good This is absolutely incomprehensible Either I have gone mad or... Jean, don't contradict Alexander Trust to him He knows better than we do what is right and what is wrong I shat Give me some water He drinks Go ahead Say anything you please, anything I can't imagine why you are so upset I don't pretend that my scheme is an ideal one And if you all object to it I shall not insist I not only nourish feelings of respect toward learning your excellency But I am also drawn to it by family ties My brother Gregory's wife's brother Whom you may know His name is Konstantin Lakdimanov And he used to be a magistrate Stop waffles, this is business Wait a bit, we will talk about that later To Serebrakov There now, ask him what he thinks This estate was bought from his uncle Why should I ask questions? What good would it do? The price was 95,000 rubles My father paid 70 and left a debt of 25 Now listen This place could never have been bought Had I not renounced my inheritance In the favor of my sister whom I deeply loved And what is more I worked for ten years like an ox And paid off the debt I regret having started this conversation Thanks entirely to my own personal efforts The place is entirely clear of debts And now, when I've grown old You want to throw me out, neck and crop? I can't imagine what you are driving at For five years I have managed this place And have sent you the returns from it Like the most honest of servants And you've never given me one single word of thanks For my work, not one Neither in my youth nor now You allowed me a meager salary Of 500 rubles a year A beggar's pitance And I've never even thought of adding a ruble to it What did I know of such things, Yvonne? I am not a practical man And don't understand them You might have helped yourself to what you wanted Yes, why did I not steal? Don't you all despise me for not stealing What it would have been only justice? And I should not now, I've been a beggar Yo Vanya, old man, don't talk in that way Why spoil such pleasant relations? He embraces him Do stop For 25 years I've been sitting here with my mother Like a mole in a burrow Our every thought and hope was yours and yours only By day we talked with pride of you and your work And spoke your name with veneration Our nights we wasted reading the books and papers With my soul-bound lows Don't, Vanya, don't I can't stand it What in the heaven do you want anyway?  I'm going Ivan, I command you to stop this instant You hear me?  What earthly right have you to use such language to me?  But no, don't speak, I know what to do To Serebrakov And you will understand me He goes out through the door in the center of the room And Madame Wojcaya follows him Tell me, what on earth is the matter? Take this lunatic out of my sight I cannot possibly live under the same roof with him His room He points to the center door He's almost next door to mine Let him take himself off into the village Or into the wing of the house Or I shall live here at once I cannot stay in the same house with him To her husband?  What's that? Hold him, hold him He's gone mad Give it to me, give it to me, I tell you Let me go, Halela, let me go Where is he?  What shall I do? Oh, nurse, nurse The curtain falls End of Act 3 Act 4 of Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov Translated by Julius West This is a LibriVox recording All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain For more information or to volunteer please visit LibriVox.org Act 4 Wojcicki's bedroom, which is also his office A table stands near the window On it are ledgers, letter scales and papers of every description Nearby stands a smaller table belonging to Astrof with his paints and drawing materials On the wall hangs a cage containing a styling There is also a map of Africa on the wall Obviously of no use to anybody There is a large sofa covered with buckram A door to the left leads into an inner room One to the right leads into the front hall And before this door lies a mat for the peasants with their muddy boots to stand on It is an autumn evening The silence is profound Telegyn and Marina are sitting facing one another, winding wool Be quick, Marina, or we shall be called away to say goodbye before you have finished The carriage has already been ordered Trying to wind more quickly I am a little tired They are going to Korkov to live They do well to go They have been frightened The professor's wife won't stay here an hour longer If we are going at all, let's be off, says she We shall go to Korkov and look about us And then we can send for our things They are travelling light It seems, Marina, that fate has decreed for them not to live here And quite rightly, what a storm they have just raised It was shameful It was indeed The scene was worthy of the brush of Ebezovsky I wish I had never laid eyes on them Now we shall have things as they were again Tea at eight, dinner at one, and supper in the evening Everything in order as decent folks as Christians like to have it It is a long time since I have eaten noodles Yes, we haven't had noodles for ages Not for ages As I was going through the village this morning, Marina One of the shopkeepers called after me Hi, you hang her on I felt it bitterly Don't pay the least attention to them, master We are all dependents on God You and Sonia and all of us Everyone must work, no one can sit idle Where is Sonia? In the garden with the doctor Looking for Yvonne They fear he may lay violent hands on himself Where is his pistol?   Haven't I the right to talk nonsense?  What can I do? Nothing You must tell me something Oh my God, I'm 47 years old I may live to 60, I still have 13 years before me An eternity, how shall I be able to endure life For 13 years? What shall I do? How can I feel them? Oh, don't you see? He presses Astroff's hand convulsively Don't you see, if I could only live the rest of my life In some new way If I could only wake some still bright morning And feel that life had begun again That the past was forgotten and had vanished like smoke Oh, to begin life anew Tell me, tell me how to begin What nonsense? What sort of a new life can you and I look forward to? We can have no hope None? None, of that I am convinced Tell me what to do He puts his hand to his heart Oh, I feel such a burning pain here Stop It may be that posterity which will despise us for our blind and stupid lives Will find some road to happiness But we, you and I, have but one hope The hope that we may be visited by visions Perhaps by pleasant ones As we lie resting in our graves Yes, brother, there were only two respectable intelligent men in this county You and I Ten years or so of this life of ours, this miserable life Have sucked us under And we have become as contemptible and petty as the rest But don't try to talk me out of my purpose Give me what you took from me, will you?  Sonja comes in Leave me alone! To Sonja Sonja, your uncle has stolen a bottle of morphine out of my medicine case And won't give it up Tell him that his behavior is, well, unwise I haven't time, I must be going Uncle Vanya, did you take the morphine? Yes, he took it I am absolutely sure Give it up! Why do you want to frighten us?  You are so good I am sure you will have pity on us and give it up You must endure your sorrow, Uncle Vanya You must endure it Wojcicki takes a bottle from the drawer of the table And hands it to Astrof There it is To Sonja And now we must get to work at once We must do something Or else I shall not be able to endure it Yes, yes, to work As soon as we have seen them off we shall go to work She nervously straightens out the papers on the table Everything is in a muddle Putting the bottle in his case, which he straps together Now I can be off Helena comes in Are you there, Ivan?  Was it so terrible? Yes Couldn't you stay? Couldn't you? Tomorrow in the forest? No, it is all settled And that is why I can look you so bravely in the face Our departure is fixed One thing I must ask of you Don't think too badly of me I should like you to respect me Ah With an impatient gesture Stay, I implore you It is best that there is nothing for you to do in this world You have no object in life There is nothing to occupy your attention And sooner or later your feelings must master you It is inevitable It would be better if it happened not in Karkov or in Kursk But here, in nature's lap It would then at least be poetical Even beautiful Here you have the forests This house is half in ruins that Turkenev writes of How comical you are I am angry with you and yet I shall always remember you with pleasure You are interesting and original You and I will never meet again And so I shall tell you why should I conceal it That I am just a little in love with you Come, one more last pressure of our hands And then let us part good friends Let us not bury each other any ill will Yes, go You seem to be sincere and good And yet there is something strangely disquieting About all your personality No sooner did you arrive here with your husband Than everyone whom you found busy And actively creating something Was forced to drop his work And give himself up for the whole summer To your husband's gout and yourself You and he have infected us with your idleness I have been swept off my feet I have not put my hand to a thing for weeks During which sickness has been running Its course unchecked among the people And the peasants have been pastoring their cattle In my woods and young plantations Go where you will You and your husband will always carry destruction In your train I am joking, of course And yet I am strangely sure That had you stayed here We should have been overtaken by the most immense desolation I would have gone to my ruin And you, you would not have prospered So go If you need to lack a media Snatching a pencil off Astrof's table And hiding it with a quick movement I shall take this pencil for memory How strange it is We meet and then suddenly We must part forever That is the way in this world As long as we are alone Before Uncle Vanya comes in with a bouquet Allow me to kiss you goodbye May I He kisses her on the cheek So splendid I wish you every happiness She glances about her For once in my life I shall And score on the consequences She kisses him impetuously And they quickly part Yes, go, if the carriage is there Then start at once They stand listening Efinita Wojcicki Serebrakow Madame Wojcicki with her book Telegyn and Sonja come in To Wojcicki Shame on him who bears malice for the past I have gone through so much In the last few hours That I feel capable of writing A whole treatise on the conduct of life And the instruction of posterity I gladly accept your apology And myself ask your forgiveness He kisses Wojcicki three times Helena embraces Sonja Kissing Madame Wojcicki's hand Mother Kissing him Have your picture taken, Alexander And send me one You know how dear you are to me Goodbye, Your Excellency Don't forget us Kissing his daughter Goodbye, goodbye all Shaking hands with Astrof Many thanks for your pleasant company I have a deep regard for your opinions And your enthusiasm But let me, as an old man Give one word of advice at parting Do something, my friend Work, do something They all bow Good luck to you all He goes out, followed by Madame Wojcicki and Sonja Kissing Helena's hand fervently Goodbye, forgive me I shall never see you again Goodbye, dear boy She lightly kisses his head As he bends over her hand and goes out Tell them to bring my carriage around, too, Athos All right, old man Astrof and Wojcicki are left behind alone They collect his paints and drawing materials on the table And packs them away in a box Why don't you go to see them off? Let them go I can't go out there I feel too sad I must go to work on something once To work, to work He rummages through his papers on the table A pause The tinkling of bells is heard as the horses trot away They have gone The professor, I suppose, is glad to go He couldn't be tempted back now by a fortune Marina comes in They have gone She sits down in an armchair and knits her stocking Sonja comes in, wiping her eyes They have gone God be with them To her uncle And now, Uncle Vanya, let us do something To work, to work It is long, long since you and I have sat together at this table She lights a lamp on the table No ink She takes the ink stand to the cupboard and fills it from an ink bottle How sad it is to see them go Madame Wojcicki comes slowly in They have gone She sits down and at once becomes absorbed in her book Sonja sits down at the table and looks through an account book First, Uncle Vanya, let us write up the accounts They are in a dreadful state Come, begin You take one and I will take the other In account with... They sit silently writing Ah, the Sandman has come How still it is Their pens scratch, the cricket sings It is so warm and comfortable I hate to go The tinkling of bells is heard My carriage has come There now remains but to say goodbye to you, my friends, and to my table here And then away He puts the map into the portfolio Don't hurry away, sit a little longer with us It's impossible Writing And carry forward from the old debt, 275 Workman comes in Your carriage is waiting, sir All right He hands the workman his medicine case, portfolio and box Look out, don't crush the portfolio Very well, sir When shall we see you again? Hardly before next summer Probably not this winter Though, of course, if anything should happen, you will let me know He shakes hands with them Thank you for your kindness, for your hospitality, for everything He goes up to Marina and kisses her head Goodbye, old nurse Are you going without your tea? I don't want any, nurse Won't you have a drop of vodka? Yes, I might Marina goes out My off-wheeler has gone lame for some reason He resisted yesterday when Peter was taking him to water You should have him reshorred I shall have to go around by the blacksmiths on my way home It can't be avoided He stands looking up at the map of Africa, hanging on the wall I suppose it is roasting hot in Africa now Yes, I suppose it is Marina comes back, carrying a tray on which are a glass of vodka and a piece of bread Help yourself A straw of drinks To your good health She bows deeply Eat your bread with it No, I like it so And now, goodbye To Marina You needn't come out to see me off, nurse He goes out Sonja follows him with a candle to light him to the carriage Marina sits down in her armchair Writing On the second of February, twenty pounds of butter on the sixteenth Twenty pounds of butter again Buckwheat flour Bells are heard tinkling He has gone Sonja comes in and sets the candlestick on the table He has gone Adding and writing Total fifteen, twenty-five Sonja sits down and begins to write Oh, the Lord have mercy Telekin comes in on tiptoe, sits down near the door and begins to tune his guitar To Sonja stroking her hair Oh, my child, I am miserable If you only knew how miserable I am What can we do? We must live our lives Yes, we shall live, Uncle Vanya We shall live through the long procession of days before us And through the long evenings We shall patiently bear the trials that fate imposes on us We shall work for others without rest Both now and when we are old And when our last hour comes we shall meet it humbly And there, beyond the grave We shall say that we have suffered and wept That our life was bitter and God will have pity on us Oh, then, dear, dear Uncle We shall see that bright and beautiful life We shall rejoice and look back upon our sorrow here A tender smile and we shall rest I have faith, Uncle Fervent, passionate faith Sonja kneels down before her Uncle And lays her head on his hands We shall rest Telekin plays softly on the guitar We shall rest We shall hear the angels We shall see heaven shining like a jewel We shall see all evil and all our pains sink away In the great compassion that shall unfold the world Our life will be as peaceful And tender and sweet as a caress I have faith I have faith She wipes away her tears Oh, my poor, poor Uncle Vanya You are crying You have never known what happiness was But wait, Uncle Vanya Wait! We shall rest She embraces him We shall rest The watchman's rattle is heard in the garden Telekin plays softly Madame Wojcaya writes something on the margin of her pamphlet Marina needs her stocking We shall rest The curtain slowly falls End of Act IV End of Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov Translated by Julius West


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All right, let's get right into it. Let's crack these open. So this is an interesting set because with these legendary duelists, they usually have something really cool in them. Like with Rage of Raw, they had a Ghost Shrine Wing Dragon of Raw. They had the Baron in the last set, which was pretty cool. Even though that's a meta card, they also have like a Dark Magician cards, Blue Eyes cards, stuff like that in previous sets. This one is interesting because the Ghost Shrare is kind of bad. The Ghost Shrare out of this set is actually Silent Honor Arc, which is an XC's card. So it's not really a legendary duelist card. It's very interesting. So I was thinking like maybe like Legendary Fisherman or Fortress Whale, some sort of throwback like that, but I was completely wrong. They went with an XC's monster. Actually a pretty decent card, but not really used anymore at all. So it's not a meta card and it's also not a throwback card. So it was a very interesting choice. Bob McSharks is a good card as a regular rare. Morincess Sprint Girl. I don't really know what's valuable in here yet because this is literally like a week before it comes out. So I don't know exactly what the values are gonna be, but there is one huge reprint in the set that hopefully we can pull to give away to you guys. Morincess, we've got the Blue Tang, Citadel Whale, and the Lemuria, the Forgotten City. And that reprint is the Forbidden Droplet. It was just a very, very good card, very expensive card. It has three printings and all of them are like $75 plus right now. So I don't know what this one's gonna be value that because it is the lowest rarity. There was two secret rares and an ultimate rare printing so far. So it's a really, really good card. And if we can get it, that's a huge pull. It's really the best card in this set, which is very interesting because it has nothing to do with duels from the deep or whatever, but I mean, it's a droplet. So that's fine.  Okay, I don't know. I don't think that's why. Oh, we got an ultra rare. Mega Fortress Whale. I was making this weird joke. So we missed that. Mega Fortress Whale.  I highly doubt that like this is gonna be like meta stuff, but I could be wrong. I mean, maybe some of this stuff will pop up in the meta. We'll have to see, but I don't really know. This is very weird placement because it's like the rare and then it skips one and then it goes to the foil. I've never seen anything like this. Doom Kraken, that's a super rare. They're not guaranteed. So this is very old school, like in the legendary duelist kind of stuff. It's normally like a throwback kind of like old packs where you don't get like a foil every time. You get like ghost rares and stuff like that. So it's pretty geared toward the old school people. That's why I was surprised with the ghost shirt choice. Make sure you guys let me know in the comments what you think about the ghost shirt. Cause I mean, I know a lot of you guys were disappointed. I was, especially you guys who are just like collectors like me, I thought for sure, since they like rebranded it to have Mako on it, I think in the OCG, it didn't have Mako on it. They just did that for the NA. So I was like, okay, well, they're probably gonna put like a ghost shirt legendary fisherman then, right? Because they're, you know, branding it towards the nostalgia, but they didn't. They just put a random XC's card, which isn't even really used anymore. Full armored black ray Lancer was actually pretty good in Duel Links and a deck that I used in the XC's water deck, but it's been a while. I mean, they released Master Duel. So Barion's chaos draw. So I don't know if anybody's still playing that game or not. Duel Links fans, make sure you sound out in the comments. So I know that you guys still exist. Also speaking of Master Duel, we have been playing that and some other things. Oh, Marince has died, very cool. On Twitch, a lot recently, we've recently passed 5,000 followers, which was pretty awesome. So if you guys wanna go give that a follow and check out the streams, I've been doing them every single weekday and even on the weekends sometimes. So if you guys wanna come hang out, definitely do that. It'd be awesome. All right, let's see what else we can pull out of this legendary duel. Silent Anger, Sea Stealth, Lemoria. We're really just looking for the droplet.  They've kind of done that a lot with these sets. So it makes it a little bit interesting. Like it's like, well, we pulled a, I remember GenZo was the commons. Like we pulled a GenZo and it's like, well, it's a commons, so it's very easy access, but it's a little bit weird. Ooh, CXC's Nashk Knight. I don't know how to say that, actually pronounce that, but okay. All right, the next pack we have Legendary Duelist, Duelist from the Deep. And by the way, you will get all of these pulls. So even if we pulled the droplet, now that was the third card. What in the world is going on with these? This is very weird. I don't understand like what order you pull these things in. I don't know. Let me know if you're excited about this set. Cause I know a lot of you guys do like the legendary duelist stuff. The problem with it, it usually seems to like flop. But if it's not like really good, cause like if you guys remember Synchro Storm, oh my goodness, that's a cool triangle, very cool. That set had a Baron, which is like very, very good Synchro card. And literally the boxes are $30. It has one good card and that's it. The Ghost Trailer was down to like 30 or 40 bucks or something. Look, now the rare's here. I don't understand this. They're kind of strange sets. So I don't know. I don't know how I feel about them. They're not as exciting for me because the Ghost Trailer, when it's, you know, when it's not a good one, it's like, okay, well, it's not a great one to chase. But also they're not, there's no like crazy chase. Like the Ghost Trailer is one per case, which, you know, for me at this point, oh, look at that stamping. That's interesting. It's like double stamped bottom and shark. That's pretty cool. Marincess Battle Ocean. It's like, okay, well, one case, we get it.  There it is. We got the Ghost Trailer, which is like exciting, but I just like how hard it is to pull the Starlights. I think that's what makes the appeal for the Starlight sets really, really cool. They're so hard to pull the one you want. Marincess, that is dinged up. But to be fair, if you're just like a normal person buying one box or a few packs, one out of a case is pretty rare still. So I see how it's still definitely rare enough. It's not like it's a problem. This is like a first world. I open a lot of packs problem. It's not even really a problem. I think it's totally fine. It's just not as exciting electric jellyfish as, you know, pulling a one out of 10 cases or whatever. That's pretty insane. I think it would be cool if in these sets they added a little bit more, like maybe ultimate rares at some point. A Bishark, very nice. Like an ultimate rare and ghost rare possibility in these would make these really, really unique. Like, so OTS has the ultimates right now. You could add other ultimates in this set. So you can only pull them in OTS or in Legendary Duelist. Or they could even make their own unique rarity for Legendary Duelist. Like another cool one, like Collector Rare, but something different. And you could put only Legendary Duelist sets can pull these. Which I guess technically you would say ghosts, but there's ghosts from the past as well. So it is ghosts, but also ghosts from the past. Plus only having one ghost, you know, it's like, well, there's the one and then, you know, you can't pull anything else. So I think it'd be cool to have the ghost and something else. That would make these pretty interesting to open. Here we go. Let's go. Legendary Fisherman 2, Marenses. Marenses Spring Girl. It seems like a lot of these rare names are double stamped, which is interesting. Like they put the name on two different times. Marenses, Bloodslaw Shark. Okay, so far we have not seen the forbidden droplet, which is unfortunate. I don't know. I wonder if they short printed it. I would not put it past them. It has happened in the past. Let's see. We've got the Ocean Dragon Lord, Kar-Yushin, a very cool ultra rare. We got to count and see how many. I think you get five to six ultras. Yeah, and another problem is no secret rare. So it's ultras and supers and then like one ghost. So it's kind of like, there's not a lot of high rarity. And I think that was a problem for a long time when it came to opening stuff that the rarities were not that exciting. There's only one exciting rarity in here, really. All right, next box. So I'm not really trying to like, rag on this like set the entire time or just these kinds of sets. I'm just saying what I think could make these better and make these like super fun. I am really glad that they put a droplet in here though. Cause if there was no droplet in here, this set would not be very exciting. Well, let's be honest. Like I don't really know who would buy this. I guess if you're looking for Mako support, but it's going to be tough. I feel like this is going to be in a similar line with Synchro Storm. One really good metacard. And then kind of like a ghost shirt that nobody's really looking for. I'm going to need one because I'm collecting every ghost set. So of course I'm going to go for it. But I'm just saying the average person is not going to be like, you know what I need? Silent on our arc, ghost rare. That's what I need. You know, it's like, well, it's a cool card, but it's like, and if you pull it, you're going to be happy. There's a Morincess Aqua Argonaut. Very cool. So yeah, you're going to be happy if you pull it.  And you're not really going to be searching for it. Double fin, we've got the Morincess Blue Tang and the Morincess cards were actually expensive for a while when they came out of, I think it was rising rampage where some of those came from originally, but I don't think they're that good at this point anyway. So the reprints aren't that crazy.  So the comments will be nice if you want to pick up like a super cheap core of this. But I can't imagine like legendary fisherman. Coral and enemy was a secret rare, I think. So that's actually pretty good. Bust saw shark. I don't know really what these are reprinting because like, I know a lot of these cards like Silent Angler and Bust saw. I know they were in like Duel of Saga. So they've probably had a ton of prints like since then. Duel of Saga came on 2016. I mean, that was six years ago. So a lot of this is kind of like, I don't know. I don't really know what we're looking for. Fury of Kaishin, yeah. So this, wasn't this in the one of the other ones? I thought that was in another one of the legendary duelists. I can't remember to be honest, but very interesting. I just find this set very interesting. These legendary duelists can, they can really be hit or miss. For us the stories, I mean, this was an ultimate rare back in the day. Can you believe that? That's such a weird ultimate. Electric Jellyfish. We've pulled that like two or three times already, I think. And they often don't have a lot of different ultras. So if you buy just a couple of boxes, you end up getting repeats, but we're not getting a repeat of droplet apparently. Bomb and Shark, all of these are like double stamped. Very interesting to say the least. I'm interested to see if there are any prices. I'm going to be trying to find prices for this stuff, but I don't know what they're going to be. Sea Stealth II and Cyber Shark. Cyber Shark was a secret rare back in the day too and Duelist Genesis, I think. So a lot of these are really old cards. I mean, it is Legendary Duelist after all, but Merritsa, Sea Angel, Seventh Eternity and another one of these ultras, the same one. Legendary Fisherman. Okay, next one. Let's see if we can get that droplet. Droplet would really change the mood about the set for sure. We'd be like, wow, the set's awesome. Droplet is definitely needed though to give this set something in it. Torrential Tribute, that's actually a very good card. I mean, it's had a million prints, but even then, if you're just getting into it and you don't have one, you can just grab one out of these packs. That makes it nice and easy. Torrential also is a Mako tsunami card, so it makes sense that it's in here. Merritsa says, even though I don't think it was originally supposed to be like him on the front or whatever, but very cool. Cause it's not technically a Mako, it's not, oh, a Bishark, nice, ultra rare. It's not a Mako Legendary Duelist. It's actually just Duelist from the deep. So it's supposed to be like any water. I think there were some other people that they could have had, but they went with Mako cause he's the one everyone recognizes. It's always interesting when you talk about Mako though, he was in like two or three episodes. He was not very well known like in the show, but like once you get into dual links, like you're like really feel like he's like a huge character cause you could play as him and all that different stuff. So that's what I liked about dual links though. It really, it didn't like expand like any lore or anything, but it made you feel like all those characters were super important. Buzzsaw Shark, which is very cool. Yeah, so I don't know how to know about this set. It'd probably be kind of fun to like throw together a water deck, but I don't know if they're any good. Oh look, Giant Hand got a reprint in this. Okay, this is the prize card. So this is actually a cool print because this is like a $2,000 prize card right now as a super rare. The Ultra is even more than that. So you can get the cheap version out here. That's actually kind of cool. All right, so there are a couple things in this set. There's not nothing. Here's a couple things. You've got a torrential common. You've got the Giant Hand. You've got a Seastelt. The tag is not a bad card. You've got Forbidden Drop, but of course. And then of course a Ghost Shryer. I mean, it's just the fact that it is a Ghost Shryer is really basically it. Marincess Marble Rock, Marincess Pascales, and number 71 Rebarion Shark. I don't think I've ever seen that card other than today of course. Because we have seen that card a few times today. All right, legendary duelist. Duel's from the deep. All right, we've got the number C-101 Double Fin. Marincess Dive. Yeah, just a lot of Marincess. So really if you're looking for Marincess, this is your set because I think most of the cards are probably in here.  Marincess, Marincess Battle Ocean, and number 71 added again. Two boxes, 72 packs. Yeah, these are 36 pack boxes with five cards per pack. Marincess Spring Girl, which are always interesting. I find I like 24 pack boxes more because 36 is a lot to open like per box. It is, you're like tired after opening them. Torrential. Number C-101 is not a terrible card either. That used to have an ultimate rare. Well, it does still, but back in the day there was an ultimate rare. Torrential, Silent Angler, Bahamut Shark with the legendary fisherman and Citadel Whale. Citadel Whale was kind of good in duelings for a while. Bat and Sea Stealth, that was a good deck. Saber Shark, got the Marincess, Sleepy Maiden, XC's Remora, Crystal Shark, there's a super rare, and number 71. Few packs left. Few more chances of forbidden droplet or a Ghost Shryer. Marincess, wait, I thought that was a rare. Processaurus and Lemuria with a Buzzsaw Shark, very cool. Let's get something amazing to end this off. This new set, always fun to open the new sets even if you don't like love them specifically, but it's always fun anyway to see what the new cards are coming out with. It's just awesome that Yu-Gi-Oh is still coming out with new sets. Is it not awesome? Let me know in the comments if you agree. New sets constantly, like just new cards, reprint cards from old stuff, new rarities. I mean, how can you not love Yu-Gi-Oh? It's awesome.  It's just reminding me how much I love it. It's very interesting. We got the Rank Up Magic, Marincess, Sea Stealth, number 106 Gynan, so we got two of those in this box. We got zero in the other one. What, two more packs, I think, and then we're done. Two boxes, oh my goodness. Marincess Sea Angel, we got the Marincess Sleepy Maiden, Marincess Crystal Heart, Mega Fortress Wailers and Ultra. Is that our last one? I hope not. Will this be a ghost rare, the final pack? I think I'd rather have Droplets. Well, personally, I'd rather have the ghost rare, but I think you guys would rather have Droplets. This is for you. Marincess Sea Angel, we got the Marincess Circulation, Marincess Battleship, Final Chance, Legendary Fisherman, all right, appropriate, appropriate way to end it, and Rage of Kar-Yushin. All right, all right. If you guys enjoyed this video, make sure to subscribe to the channel for more epic videos like this. Shout out to TCG, Trust, Garts, Tomefo Show, Tomato Juice, Daxter, JT Show, Clayton Fitzgerald, Lady 7, Brett Palmer, Puffins of Doom, Stanley, Mimic, Echo, Ian Moosa, Jr. Barting, John Nolan, and then the Thai Show. Thank you guys for supporting the channel, and I'll see you guys next time. Peace.


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Welcome to JSA TV, the newsroom for tech and telecom professionals. I'm Jamie Scato-Cutaya of JSA, joining me here in beautiful Honolulu, PTC 2018. My good friend, Mr. Todd Coleman, the CEO and founder, president of eStructure. Also formerly the founder of Cologix, so known thought leader in our industry. Todd, always a pleasure. Thank you. Thanks for having me. Oh, thank you for being here. Now, eStructure just opened a data center in near downtown Montreal. Can you tell us a little bit about why that location and why now? Yeah, so we're pretty focused on building hyperscale data centers. We like the location of the downtown. Just we've got a number of customers that still like to hug their servers, as well as customers that have latency concerns. So we already have an existing downtown facility that's five megawatts, 20,000 square feet, that's rather network dense. And so extending a fiber loop to the new facility to allow those customers to grow new facilities, 150,000 square feet, 30 megawatts. So if customers are looking for real scale, but still want the ability to connect to the many options from a network perspective, we can offer that through this new facility, which we call MTL2. Oh, phenomenal. And that kind of leads me into my next question, how this new facility plays a role into your existing business model and the type of customers that you're catering to. Yeah, so today we have about 850 customers. Those range from small to medium size enterprises to large hyperscale cloud networks. And so for those customers, you know, look, ours is a growth proposition. We're all about high density customers, both in our downtown facility, as well as our larger facility, which used to be the old Montreal Gazette printing building. So for us, it's about their ability to grow and whatever their power and cooling demands we can grow with them. And being a known visionary in the industry, and as well as your amazing leadership team that you've put together over at East Structure, you have a very, a very unique focus, particularly on catering to those demanding enterprise connectivity needs. Can you tell us a little bit more about that? Yeah, they are demanding.  And so when they want it, they want it on demand. So whether it's from a connectivity perspective and access to the networks, the on-ramps to the internet, or the off-ramps as the case may be, or whether it's just their unique power demands. You know, we're finding customers more and more that are looking for megawatts of demand, but their timeframes look more like a retail customer on a 1Z, 2Z cabinet basis. So for us, the ability to turn up megawatts measured in a couple of months rather than, you know, six to 12 months, those times have changed. So it really is capacity on demand. And that's what we're trying to cater to. In terms of the scale, you know, we've built out a team. We're focused on processes. We have an incredible capital structure with some incredible partners. And so our ability to scale with those customers is exactly the value proposition where we aim to bring to the market. And that's amazing.  It's the type of hypergrowth that, you know, really does cater to those enterprise needs right now. So amazing. You also announced that e-structure has just closed, let's see, 180 million in committed capital. Clearly, that's going to be towards your ongoing growth. Correct. So that's both organic growth. We're building on a brand new facility that we expect that we'll invest upwards of $150 million into that facility over the next several years. But we're also targeting acquisitions. We're going to grow in organically as well as we sort of spread our wings across Canada. You know, we talked about sort of our strategic investment partners. You know, we got an incredible group of equity partners that want to scale with the business. They're capable of putting a lot more money to work, as long as I find them great opportunities for their investment dollars. And you mentioned Canada being your marketplace. Why would big enterprise companies and the OTTs, why would they be interested in Canada for their data center needs? Look, there's a number of reasons. One is the climate in Canada is very conducive to very green power. We get the opportunity to use, in the case of Montreal in a lot of areas, over nine months of free cooling a year. Certainly those temperatures and unique climate helps with that. Secondly, we have some of the lowest power rates in certain geographies within Canada, of all of North America. In the case of Montreal, we're looking at close to 5.2 cents a kilowatt hour Canadian dollars, in which for US dollar investors, there's still a 30% discount on top of that. In addition, there's a number of customers that are very sensitive to the security of their data, and they want to be close to the US, but they prefer to be just outside of the border of the US for Patriot Act reasons and other reasons. And Canada is actually at the forefront of what we call data sovereignty. There's certain types of data, whether it's personal information, medical information, et cetera, that the certain governments are requiring to be housed within their borders when it's accessed by the end users. Canada happens to be at the forefront. So I think we're going to see greater proliferation of data being housed in Canada and other countries like that over the upcoming years. And for our viewers who want to learn more, where can they go? They can contact us at estructure.com. We'd be happy to hear from them. Well, you heard it, estructure.com. Todd, thank you so much for joining us, and thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV.