CHAPTER 46 I had to make an effort not to continually think about the episode with Gordon. And about what would follow. I needed total mental clarity to deal with that asshole Gregor. I don’t know why I expected changes. Only six years had passed, not sixty. The university was still there, imposing and majestic. Actually, the real changes had taken place inside me, not in the environment I had left, from which I had escaped from one day to another. Returning to my old department aroused mixed emotions in me. It was like re-emerging in my old life, as if I had never left, and on the contrary I had come back just to pick up where I left off. Regrets? Yes, I had. Too many. Even Gregor Jackman remained the same. Cynical, sinister, petty, opportunist, manipulator. The usual old Gregor. He h

