1 LEMUR THE FIRST AND THE LAST BELGRADE (TANJA MILANOVIĆ, 8 years old)
December 1989
An old man holds out his hand. A hand is held out by itself. The doctor with earpieces on places the cuff of a blood pressure meter around his upper arm. The old man doesn’t change the expression on his face. The systolic pressure acceptable. The diastolic pressure elevated, but still acceptable. This is only a procedure, after all. The figure of a man in a dark blue coat close by. The man’s head cannot be seen. There’s a television in the background. A gray screen with no moving images. The old man is sitting on a white metal hospital bed. The old man first looks at the doctor, pleadingly, then at the headless man, which spices up his pleadings with fury. Everything turns into surrender.
A woman is con
