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#3 - Friend, Ally, Kindred Spirit

 What shall I tell you all about that special day when first I met the eminent  and amazing,  Stanislaus Edward Petros Przywara - the same one referred to in a prior chapter as... the "frail diminutive gent"...lost in thought - but such a person as one must bump into now and then to restore faith and belief in our myriad little human correspondences. Was it that innocuous comment that he made at the outset - a fortuitous greeting in retrospect - "the coffee is good here - at least..." that I took as a positive omen - that established the rapport between us... ?  I had taken him for a crazy person carrying on some wild conversation with himself and replying to voices in his head that seemed all to real - but once the ice was broken - we found ourselves - catching up to speed on our respective "life stories" such as we were able to piece them together.

#1 - > The Institute ( Doctors + A Protagonist)

  They found him curled up under his favorite hedge-row, clutching his frayed sweater - near steps to the library terrace - at the university - in that same idyllic - ivy-laden quad - where he was sure he had once worked - as professor? instructor? archivist? acrobat? - back in the days before his life unravelled - and brought him back to the Institute - a mere 15 minute drive away - for closer monitoring. (They plopped him down in the coffee lounge - his favorite spot  - a popular wing of the Institute - where beverage and break snack were dispensed in exchange for tokens - and the chairs and couches were especially cozy. The Nurse, commenting gently on his frazzled state-of-mind and his unreliable memories - prodded him to sip a cup of dark roast, take a blue pill and wait for further instruction.) His "episodes" of derangement and disorientation had been scattered of late - and generally speaking he had not wandered off the premises - except to go in search of "greene...