This makes me laugh so much: "Doctor, you're like the Encyclopaedia Britannica. You know everything.: "I do know rather a lot," I replied nervously. "I believe you even speak Sanskrit." "Fluently," I replied. But she believed that too. "And you must surely know the Russian novelists. Tell me something about Dostoevsky or Bela Bartok. I've a friend who never stops talking about them." "I never met Bartok," I said untruthfully, shocked at her ignorance. "But I knew old Dostoevsky really well. He and my father were at primary school together, and he often came for supper." "How lucky you are, to have known such famous people as a child. I'm sure you could even tell me why Aix-La-Chapelle is called Aachen in German."
I like to think that someone actually said some of these things in real life to Szerb.
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Date: 2010-01-19 11:13 pm (UTC)"Doctor, you're like the Encyclopaedia Britannica. You know everything.:
"I do know rather a lot," I replied nervously.
"I believe you even speak Sanskrit."
"Fluently," I replied. But she believed that too.
"And you must surely know the Russian novelists. Tell me something about Dostoevsky or Bela Bartok. I've a friend who never stops talking about them."
"I never met Bartok," I said untruthfully, shocked at her ignorance. "But I knew old Dostoevsky really well. He and my father were at primary school together, and he often came for supper."
"How lucky you are, to have known such famous people as a child. I'm sure you could even tell me why Aix-La-Chapelle is called Aachen in German."
I like to think that someone actually said some of these things in real life to Szerb.