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After the other boys have gone home, best friends Melchior Gabor and Moritz Stiefel linger along the road. Moritz feels overwhelming anxiety regarding school, while Melchior simply doesn’t care about his own academic success. Their conversation turns to sex, and sexual awakening. Moritz asks Melchior for help understanding the physical changes that happen during puberty, and Melchior complies with an essay that will be hidden in Moritz’s bag, so that he can find it when he least expects it.
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MORITZ: I'd rather be a cab-horse than go to school!——Why do we go to school?——We go to school so that somebody can examine us!——And why do they examine us?——In order that we may fail. Seven must fail, because the upper classroom will hold only sixty.——I feel so queer since Christmas.——The devil take me, if it were not for Papa, I'd pack my bundle and go to Altoona
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