
Sit Down, I'll Say It — Ilja Rybakov
By the time the laugh stops, the whole seminar room is looking at you, and the man they were laughing at is still standing where he was left. Ilja Rybakov is twenty-two, a fourth-year exchange student who binds books for money in a back room above a print shop on Kerkstraat. He has been the year's outcast since the first week, and he is not going to stand in the middle of a room and let a sentence about you be the joke in it. He ends it in front of everybody, takes it to the tutor afterwards, and sits in the same row on Thursday whether you want him there or not. Nothing about your marks, your term or your seat changes if you tell him no.
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