His wife had walked out, taking their two daughters with her and selling their furniture. Back then, Erick Aho was packing up his life. Andreas Ban does not normally smoke a pipe. Andreas Ban was given the pipe in 1975 by the psychiatrist Erick Aho of Geneva, when Andreas Ban was there on a one-year training course in clinical depression, anxiety and phobia. The pipe was handmade by the renowned Emil Chonowitsch in the 1970s, it has the trademark chonowitsch–denmark, handskaaren. Andreas Ban settles into his gray armchair, takes the dried belladonna leaves out of Victor’s bag, crumbles them and fills his pipe. He waits for the warmth to pour over the parquet and lick at the walls. He pours himself a grappa with rue and sets off limping down the hallway, swinging Victor’s plastic bag. He climbs up to look at the electricity meter, it is spinning vertiginously. Andreas Ban switches on all the heaters and all the lamps. The apartment smells of darkness and damp.
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