Répliques

- So,tell me about Brahms.

- I told you about all I know.

-That was a truly terrible poker face.

- Alright. What do you want to know?

- What was he like? The real Brahms.

- You need to know there is two types of talk in town. Polite talk and pub talk. You know? And the truth is somewhere in between.

- Okay, what was the polite talk?

- That he was a lovely lad and it’s a tragedy...that he was taken at such a young age.

- And the pub talk?

- Well, you know, that he wasn’t such a lovely lad. That he was strange.

- What’s the truth?