About spiners

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

In the army, I once lay in a hospital and in this Ufa institution for soldiers, a drunken doctor worked as a janitor. I remember that his name was Edgrad. He was aged, he smoked a pipe and possessed simply encyclopedic knowledge in almost all areas.

In the army, I once lay in a hospital and in this Ufa institution for soldiers, a drunken doctor worked as a janitor. I remember that his name was Edgrad. He was aged, smoked a pipe and possessed simply encyclopedic knowledge in almost all areas, most importantly, he was an excellent storyteller of wonderful stories, of which he had an incredible number.

Once, we were dragging small boxes on the street - in the hospital all recovering and easily sick people worked. And from one box, through the slot obtained during careless unloading, bearings fell. Edgard took one of them, put it on his finger and twisted it. And the story followed, how his teacher at the Moscow Medical Institute, a front-line doctor with great experience, participated in the evacuation of a psychiatric hospital at the beginning of the war from somewhere from Ukraine to the East.

It is clear, the war. Everything rumbles around, the Germans are already nearby and the planes are pressing the retreating ones almost every five minutes. Psychos are afraid, cling to everything and it is impossible to pull them out. And then the doctor-teacher saw a box left in a hurry by someone. In which the bearings were located. And so he quickly handed out bearings to psychiatric patients, put them on their fingers and showed them how to turn them. Mentally ill people were simply mesmerized by the action and easily allowed themselves to be guided and put into cars.

Edgard said that his teacher was the same doctor, later described this experiment in scientific work, showing that idiots need to close, loop their minds in some cases, so that the head does not give birth to other thoughts that lead to unexpected actions. And now I walk the streets and see these same "bewitching" - spinners in the hands of almost all children. I remember that story with the distraction of idiots. And somehow I feel uneasy …