Prisoner’s Surrealism
T o pass time, I offered my inmate to play a game called “Guess a hero”. One player needs to think about one film or cartoon character, and the other had to ask general questions to try and recognize the given hero. Answers to the questions could be only words yes or no. I remember well how Maxim thought about Signor Tomato from Cipolino Adventures by Italian writer Gianni Rodari. It took me a long time to guess the character thought of, being a living vegetable... and while I was searching for the right answer, the security guard was standing behind the door and, to put it mildly, he could not understand what he heard. We learnt about being listened to only when somebody hysterically burst into laughter behind the door and in the small window there appeared a red mu
