The ministry of pain by Dubravka Ugrešić & Michael Henry Heim

Author:Dubravka Ugrešić & Michael Henry Heim [Dubravka Ugrešić & Michael Henry Heim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Roman
ISBN: 9780060825850
Published: 2007-02-14T08:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 2

Now and then someone

Will dig up rusty arguments

From under the Bushes

And take them to the dump.

Szymborska

I didn’t know what to do. I paced the cramped space of my flat, shivering with a mild fever. I couldn’t concentrate on anything, the thought of Uroš’s death having taken over like a migraine. And then my eye lit on a notebook, one of the three Papa had just given me in Zagreb. I’d left the other two with Mother, knowing I’d have neither the time nor the inclination to read them. If I took even one, it was to assuage my conscience. I plucked it off the shelf and started leafing through it.

The text had been typed single-spaced with virtually no margins. The print was fuzzy. He must have given me the third or fourth copy. He had stapled the sheets together, covered them with light green cardboard and written “Memoirs of a Small Town Schoolmaster” on it in his own hand. He called the notebooks “books.” I don’t know the title he gave to “Book One,” which presumably dealt with his early childhood. “Book Two” may have been called “School Days, School Days, Good Old Golden Rule Days.” I had “Book Five,” which bore the dedication “To my future progeny.” Papa had little hope of “future progeny,” the progeny being merely a romantic excuse, but since he had made several copies of this, his life’s confession, he apparently did hope that somebody else would eventually read it.

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