Tales From a Brain Under Pressure

All those days in preschool finally paid off.

In front of me: pieces of cardboard. To the left of me: more pieces of cardboard. To my right: glue, a knife, and tape.

No, I'm not in kindergarten, I'm at the University, preparing the laboratory settings for my first large experiment.

In a sudden flash I realise why we had to sit and spend all those hours building things, glueing things together: it was so that we would be able to prepare our own experiment material when we later grew up and became scientists!

Oh, now I have built a nice, fine screen for my experiment. Miss! Look at my fine screen! Look!


Pierre Gander, Summer 1996.