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When there is silence where before there was sighing and lamentation, two bodies lie stretched out side by side in the dark. It will never be like this again, thinks Hans. It will always be this way, thinks Katharina. Then sleep puts an end to all thinking, and what happened to them both today is inscribed permanently — while they lie together, breathing peacefully — on each one’s cerebral cortex.
Every seven years, Hans’s brain cells, like those of the rest of his body, were replaced, but his mother’s verdict remained in them, the sense of humiliation felt ineradicable.
