Then it was said that the single seedlings, being in direct proximity to the clusters and envying them with a thoroughly good sort of envy, had made an effort and caught up.īe that as it may, when I come back to my hometown nowadays, I sometimes take it easy in the shade of those now enormous trees and feel like a sentimental patriarch. In a few years a beautiful grove of eucalyptus trees grew up on that wasteland and it was quite impossible to tell where the clusters and where the single seedlings had been. Admittedly, when there were not many seedlings and too much wasteland left, we began to put only one seedling in each hole, thus giving the new, progressive method and the old method the chance to show their worth in free competition. We planted out the patch with eucalyptus seedlings, using the cluster method, which was an advanced method for those times. Strange though it may seem, we actually succeeded.

When I was at school the whole class was one day given the task of turning a patch of seaside wasteland into a place of cultured rest and recreation. Now here is an example from my own experience. One of the rather amusing features of human nature is that each of us tries to live up to an image imposed upon him by other people. It implies that we, too, could indulge in such idiosyncrasies if we liked, but we don't like because we have no use for them. Because, you see, talking about them makes us aware of our own healthy normality.

There is nothing more enjoyable than discussing certain odd habits of our acquaintances. Let's talk about some of the amusing sides of human nature, as embodied in people we know. Let's talk about things we don't have to talk about, pleasant things. Philosophy, culturology, history, psychologyįazil Iskander - Forbidden Fruit and Other Stories.

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