It was
dinner time. Alumni just started to bring in hot dishes.
- One day an
alumnus of the second year comes to me, removes his glasses, rubs it with a cloth
and says: "I want to leave, father'" – said master Adalbert. -
"Why do you want to go, buddy?" - I ask him. - "Because in that seminar
of yours nothing happens." - "And what should?" - I ask. -
"Well, I watched a movie about our imprisoned cardinal, and it was obvious
that we do like this: we divide time into small units, in each one something important
happens. This way we overcome the sense of closure. " Closure? "- I
ask him good-naturedly. - "Listen, master" - says my alumnus -
"I am a maximalist. As the others played football, I practiced Chopin etudes
in my room. The most difficult ones at once. As I was ten, my parents took me
to a swimming pool. I was not afraid of deep water, but I knew that I would not
swim well right away, and I did not want to swim badly. In the end, I did not
learned to swim. Then I liked a black-haired one. I told her that I loved her,
and she said she did not. I've never been in bed with a girl, I did not want to
start with others. For me anything is not good enough, it is all or nothing.
"
-
"Where did you tell her that you loved her? In a forest? In a meadow? Or in
her room? "- I asked. – He did not respond.
- "I
advise you, go away now" – I said then. - "Because you lied. You did
not tell her that you loved her, neither in her room, nor in a forest or in a
meadow. You're not a maximalist, you are only short-sighted, as it is evidenced
by your strong glasses. You do not play well or swim or fuck well either. We do
not have a little room or little piano for you. Go away and do not bother us.
"
Men raised
their heads over the table.
- And did
he quit? - father Hyacinth asked.
- No -
yawned master Adalbert. – That is, yes, he did, and he joined the right-wing
youth organization immediately after. Now he writes speeches for the chairman: what
should be forbidden in the social life, that sort of things. Maybe I should have
kept him anyway.