"Is it possible that you have never heard anything about Cabinski, nor read about the Tivoli?" asked Janina greatly surprised that there could be anyone in Warsaw who did not know and was not interested in the theater.
"I do not go to the theater at all and I do not read the papers," he answered.
"Impossible!"
"One can see right away that you must not be more than twenty years old, for you cry out in amazement, 'Impossible!' and look at me as though I were a lunatic or a barbarian."
"But after talking with you, it was impossible for me to assume even for a moment that . . ."
"That I am not interested in the theater, yes, that I do not read the papers," he concluded for her.
"I can't even understand why."
"Well, because that does not interest me at all," he answered simply.
"Are you not at all interested in what is going on in the world, in how people are living, what they are doing, what they are thinking?"
"No. To you that doubtless appears monstrous; nevertheless it is entirely natural. Do our peasants interest themselves in the theater or in world affairs? They do not. Isn't that true?"