CHAPTER 16 Peter had been right. The music kept me awake, preventing me from falling asleep on the street. Awake to such an extent that I had to keep myself from not wiggling on the tube as he had taught me, not to move my ass as he said. I arrived at the university miraculously early, even before Gregor and Frey. And even there I had to keep myself from dancing in the corridors. I didn’t wonder what was happening to me. It was just happening. I could be bright and active. Sooner or later I would collapse for lack of sleep and tiredness, I knew it. But at the moment I held on perfectly. I even held the confrontation with that miserable Gregor. I had no idea where that energy, that vitality, had sprung up in me. I left the university in the early afternoon without knowing where to go and

