At some point during these months I bought the sixpack of translated Dune books. I did read the original of the first part (concluding with "but the history will call us wives") almost four years ago when Paja borrowed it to me with "you'll like this", and now that I've started making some money, I could indulge this much. The sixpack ends with Leto II, wormlike, running into the desert.
To this day, I've read it several times, including the originals.
Don't know how it happened that I had the books with me in Perlez, the whole sixpack. Perhaps I borrowed them or just brought them to show to a colleague.
Coffee was made in a liter pot, as there was usually seven of us. We'd sip it during the big recess, after the second class, 9:35 to 9:50. The main subject of coffee chat, almost every monday that fall, was the new singer in hotel Vojvodina, and what kind of show did she put up last night. They described her as forward, backward and longlegged (though Pop commented her appearance as „she has it all, just missing an apple in her jaw“). Her main number, the culmination of the evening, would be when she'd allow one of the guests to carry her on his shoulders (of course, she wore a dopičnjak, shortest possible). The guy would, as a rule, be one of the more prominent directors in town. Who knows whether they will have emphasized or removed from their biographies that „Lepa Brena was riding me before she became famous“.
Truth be told, Toma Zdravković also launched his carreer from the same hotel.
The staff room in 13. had two doors (v. 19-VIII-1980.); the door to the hall being in one corner, it follows that the chess was played in the opposite corner. There were several strong players, at least one mathematician, two textile engineers, one construction engineer and some others at times. They even held some titles, some were grand masters or whatever. The games were loud and rough, it's a miracle that a chessman never pierced the board. The rumor said the internal champion of the staff room will get a black belt.
Once Marteš, a fellow mathematician and schedule maker, asked me how can I hold classes so with hair and beard (which I wasn't too dilligent in pruning, what you saw in september is what you get). „Quite simply, colleague, in my work I use the inside of my head, the outside being irrelevant. Don't know how you do.“