the monstrous beast for himself and when she kissed him he changed into a handsome prince .’ Only he wouldn’t, he’d have stayed a monstrous beast. I won’t change. Mr. Lamb: In that way?
No, you won’t. Derry: And no, one’ll kiss me, ever. Only my mother, and she kisses me on the other side of my face, and I don’t like my mother to kiss me, she does it because she has to. I don’t care if nobody ever kisses me.It won’t make my face change.
Do you know, one day, a woman went by me in the street — I was at a bus-stop — and she was with another woman, and she looked at me, and she said.... whispered.... only I heard her.... she said, “Look at that, that’s a terrible thing.
That’s a face only a mother could love.” Mr. Lamb: So now you keep your ears shut. Derry: You’re....peculiar. You say peculiar things.
You ask questions I don’t understand. Mr. Lamb: I like to talk. Have company.
You don’t have to answer questions. You don’t have to stop here at all. The gate’s open. Derry: Yes, but...
Unit- - THE CHALLENGE - - - Mr. Lamb: I’ve a hive of bees behind those trees over there. Some hear bees and they say, bees buzz. But when you listen to bees for a long while, they hum....and hum means ‘sing’.
I hear them singing, my bees. Derry: But....I like it here. I came in because I liked it.... when I looked over the wall.
I don’t like being near people. When they stare.... when I see them being afraid of me. Mr.
Lamb: You could lock yourself up in a room and never leave it. There was a man who did that. He was afraid, you see. Of everything.
Everything in this world. A bus might run him over, or a man might breathe deadly germs onto him, or a donkey might kick him to death, or lightning might strike him down, or he might love a girl and the girl would leave him,