Examination and Indians
I dreamt that (...) I was in some old building that was the Physics Department, although it rather resembled the corridors of the last floor of the main building of the Polytechnic crossed with some old school. I had just been through the exam about my PhD thesis (I wasn’t sure I had passed, though I hoped I had), and I knew I had to prepare for one last exam, in physics, which was supposedly easier because it was about general knowledge. Tired and dazed, I walked along the corridor, peering into the various halls, where students were, and were doing something, or were sitting and talking. It was already evening outside the windows. I wanted to share with someone whom I know that I had finally managed to get through the exam, but I did not meet anyone familiar, and I realised that it was because they had all graduated a long time ago. I went out into the corridor, and then I saw a group of people from the group of astronomers with whom we used to study in parallel (Ania Ciechanowska, Krzul, Delfino, etc.) running towards me, who were dressed in some colourful costumes, plumes, and generally pretended to be Indians. They ran past me and ran further on. I wanted to run with them, I missed this so much, but I knew I had one more exam left to pass.
22.II.14, Waterloo; transl. from Polish: Brzeźno, 10.I.23