
He shook my hand and gave me the so-called proof of the award, whose bad taste, like all the other forms of awards that I have received, was unsurpassed.
I was not going to say something on that stage, nor had I been asked. So I only said a short Thanks! to calm my embarrassment, and immediately left the stage and went back to my seat.
At that point Mr. Hunger also went to sit down and the Philharmonic Orchestra played a piece by Beethoven.
While the Philharmonic musicians were playing, I was thinking about the ceremony just ending, I had of course not had the time to take stock of the humor, lack of taste and recklessness with precision.
As soon as the Philharmonic musicians had finished playing, Minister Firnberg stood up, immediately followed by President Hunger, and both went on stage.
Now everyone in the room got up and tried to make their way up to the stage, of course, heading for the minister and President Hunger, who spoke with the minister.
I, with my aunt, stood nearby as though frozen and listened with growing shock to the frenetic buzz of about a thousand of people around us.
After some time, the minister looked round, and with a tone of incomparable arrogance and stupidity in her voice, asked, “but where has our little writer got to?” I was right next to her, but dared not make myself known.
I took my aunt’s arm and we left the room. Without anyone holding us up or even noticing, we left the Science Academy at one o’clock in the afternoon.
Outside some friends were waiting.
With them we went to lunch at the so-called Bierklinik Gosser.
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