You can have it all

Today was the last day of a quasi-archaeological exhibition in the University Library on the early settlements on the right bank of Wisła. Being me I failed to see it earlier. I also failed to check the summer opening hours. Till 16:00 on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Guh! But I was on errand from my work today and I decided to do a little detour. I asked the guards where the exhibit is and the guy said they closed it today at 10:00 He was very amused and said that there were several groups in here today to see it. I'm going to complain *snerk*

So how about a little concert in the evening integrated with lecture about baroque music? There was a lecture all right, but no music because the sonnets were meant to be played with an accompaniment and guy's basso continuo didn't make it. pffft

So how about a nice chit-chat?

"Doctors are in fact charlatans. This is the only profession that takes money for something they don't know and can't do. It's a corporation, a clan blah-blah-blah"

"What are you on about?"

"Let's take Alzheimer or any other genetic disease. They will tell you that it's genetic, oh yes. But which gene is actually responsible, that they cannot tell. And forget about curing it. They will treat the symptoms." *accusing stab of his finger*

"From what I know the cause of Alzheimer isn't known, so how can you cure it?"

"Exactly!"

"Exactly what?"

"They claim they can cure people and in fact they are cheats!"

"Who claims that they can cure Alzheimer?"

"Not Alzheimer, and not many other diseases. But they are specialists in medicine and who should know that things if not them?"

"Nobody knows it. How can they practise something that isn't known to any human being?"

"That's not the point. They don't know it. Imagine going to the engineer and telling him that you want to have a bridge built. He takes full responsibility if the bridge collapses. And doctors? You might die and nothing happens to them."

"Bridges and people aren't the same."

"They are. On a quantum level."

"Do you go to a doctor on a quantum level?"

"That's not the point. Aristotle said-"

I don't know what was the point. The discussion changed the course and it ended with him learning that there is a way of being granted medical services from your insurance even if in your local clinic they say that they don't have free places this year. You simply call the insurance and they give you addresses. He seemed satisfied and didn't discuss Aristotle and bridges any more.

I rarely had the sense of unreality this strong. At first I was suspecting that he's joking, that this is some kind of Monty Python sketch, but it wasn't, he was serious. What I wrote doesn't render his speech in its full glory.

Do I even want to go to work tomorrow?