LI E GOSTEI (5)

Einstein finishes a lecture at the university in Prague (…) and is getting ready to leave the hall. “Herr Professor sir, take your umbrella, it's raining out!” Einstein gazes thoughtfully at his umbrella where it stands in a corner of the room, and answers the student: “You know, my good friend, I often forget my umbrella, so I have two of them. One is at the house, the other I keep at the university. Of course I could take it now since, as you say quite correctly, it is raining. But then I would end up with two umbrellas at the house and none here.” And with these words he goes out into the rain.

Milan Kundera, The Curtain