Maturity? A Tomato!
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Maturity? A Tomato!

An Innocent Discussion About Maturity
Ewa Pawlik
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As a result of you know what, just like in the previous edition of “Conversations from the Playground”, assembling our regular discussion group turned out to be impossible. It’s not enough that you know what, but there’s the holidays, too. And the holidays mean camping, excursions, relaxing under a pear tree, and so on.

So we decided to hunt up participants near one of those bodies of water that draw in the young like blueberries attract wasps. The Sejny region was chosen, because it happened to be the closest to “Przekrój”’s correspondent. After a brief search, we managed to round out the group, which welcomed the vision of devoting a portion of the dog days of summer to professional activities with an enthusiasm rarely seen among adult individuals called in to work. For the panel discussion devoted to maturity, which took place on a pier surrounded by calamus and other reeds, four resolute young individuals of the female sex took part.

Over to them:

Lu: Hi, I’m a girl and I’m a child. I’m something in the world. Or maybe somebody. Somebody!

Nina: I’m Nina. I’m a child.

Pola: I’m Pola, I’m a child. I’ll be 11 in a month.

Lu: Oh! Well, in that case, I’m 7.

Hela: I’m Hela, I’m a child and I’m turning 9 on Saturday.

I’m Ewa, a correspondent for “Przekrój”, in two weeks I’ll turn 40.

Lu: But this isn’t an interview with you!

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As a result of everybody knows what, we weren’t able to organize the next debate with the flower of Polish underage intelligence. As if what everybody knows wasn’t enough, in addition the table we meet at moved to a different kitchen, in a completely different house. The series is governed by its own laws, and it would be difficult for us to give up and accept the fact that in our quarterly’s summer edition it could just simply be missing. We decided to take risky steps. Because while the article was being prepared, people who live together were allowed to meet not only freely, but also without masks or the need to maintain social distance, we decided to concentrate on the circle closest to panellist Lu and the representative of “Przekrój”, who have been sharing various domiciles for more than seven years now.

What does living together actually mean? Do the residents of the falowiec block of flats in Gdańsk, Poland’s longest residential building, with 16 stairwells, 11 storeys and 1792 apartments, live together within the meaning of this law? We don’t know, but we managed to establish that Lu and “Przekrój” live one floor below the resolute Kornel. One thing led to another, and it turned out that in all his life Kornel has never had the pleasure of appearing on any kind of panel – and he would love to. Nor had he ever granted an interview, and as it would turn out a bit later, he had quite a few things to tell our Esteemed Readers.

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