Status Updates From Reparto n. 6

“However magnificent the dawn that will illumine your life, in the end you'll still be nailed down in your coffin and thrown into a pit.'”

“He visits the hospital about twice a week, inspects the wards and sees out-patients. The total lack of antiseptics and cupping-glasses worries him, but he doesn't introduce any changes for fear of upsetting Ragin, whom he considers an old rogue, suspects of being a man of means and secretly envies. He would love to have Ragin's job.”

“'I'm serving a harmful cause,' he thinks, 'and I receive a salary from those I deceive. So I'm dishonest. But then I'm nothing by myself, just a mere particle in a necessary social evil. All the district officials are crooks and they get paid for doing nothing means it's not myself who is guilty of dishonesty, but the times we live in If I were to be born two hundred years from now I'd be a different person.'