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Portrait of Claudia Erdheim
by Nina Werzhbinskaja-Rabinowich

Virve

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From: Rice Chicken Fish

 

...I've also been to Petersburg. I went straight from the airport to a concert. I love music. Straight from the airport to a taxi, and to a concert. Petersburg is a beautiful city. Yes, but I like Moscow better. How is the diarrhea now? The salmonella are gone. I don't yet have the third test results. How often a day do you go? Sometimes a few times real diarrhea, sometimes it's normal. How often? More than five times. No, maybe three times. But eight times is problematical. I don't go eight times. You are nervous, because you are going to Russia for half a year. Idiot. That's not why I have diarrhea. I'm excited, but that's not why I have diarrhea. You are nervous. Idiot. Wait until you receive the third test results. And if you do have diarrhea, take an Immodium. I'm supposed to leave in ten days. Again, diarrhea. Melissa tea. That still helps the most. A lot of melissa tea, it calms the intestines. Have the test results come in yet? No. When are they supposed to come in? Mr. Brenner just left to get the findings. The person at the municipal council is a nasty bastard. It's hard to imagine that anything gets done at all. I eat an egg every day for breakfast. Yes, yes. So what. I never got sick. Yes. I eat an egg every day for breakfast, yes, yes. I already know that. My mother also eat an egg every day for breakfast. Yes, yes. She never got sick either. When will the test results be in? Maybe the test results will already be here by Thursday afternoon. But by Friday they will certainly be here. I'll leave shortly, and will take the specimens to the lab. By Friday the test results are sure to be here. May I speak with Mr. Brenner? He's not here. He's comin' back in an hour. May I please speak with Mr. Brenner? Uh, uh, he's still not here. Ya gotta call at the lab. I'll give you the number. Yup, my colleague's called me twice. I gotta go to the municipal council. I don't have any time. How are the test results? Well, negative. I don't have any time at all. My colleague's already called me twice about you. I gotta go to the municipal council now. Excuse me, please. Thank you. Hello, the third findings are also negative. But I still have diarrhea. That's nervousness. Idiot. We'll talk about it on Tuesday in my consulting room. The third test results are also negative. But I still get diarrhea. You are nervous because you are going to Russia for half a year. Idiot. What a tone! It's not nervousness. I know that. I know exactly when something is psychosomatic. I know myself. These idiotic doctors always know everything better. There is no point in saying anything.