October
“Just listen to their talk for a while,” Suryono was saying to Sugeng. “Sometimes their discussions are quite good, though frequently they get off the track, and then they’re way up in the clouds. It’s really amusing when what’s-his-name begins to discuss the Oedipus complex by—Who was that writer? I can’t remember his name—but, even so, they’re friends of mine. They’re good people, just a bit mixed up. They think they’re helping their country by spending their time on discussing all sorts of questions. They say these discussions are necessary to find out the kind of problems we face; that when we know what the problems are, it will be easier to solve them. The pity of it, as I see it, is that these discussions, with their high-flown theorizing, have become an end in themselves, a
