Friends & Family Continued
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| The dietary habits of the Janigro's were atrocious. Both Antonio and Neda were fueled by a nasty mix of nicotine and ethanol, intermittently punctuated with yoghurt (Neda), or canned Nasi-goreng (Antonio). It is perhaps for this reason that some younger adults, mostly friends of his son, renamed him "Il Naso". Others believe that this was rather due to a pronounced physiognomic feature. |
| The definition of "mood disorder" was duly recompiled after professionals in the field witnessed the almost instantaneous but always predictable swings from overwhelming depression to sub-clinical mania. Food intake (or lack of thereof) were common triggers for these, and one could not help but notice how infrequently familial synchronicity occurred. Under most circumstances, a depressive mood swing in, say, Antonio, was followed by a positive mood shift in his wife, or children. The process was then repeated in reverse ad libitum if not ad nauseam for the innocent bystander. This process guaranteed one of the pillars of Janigros' existence, the presence of permanent and irresolvable conflictuality. |
| Most of the home life was, well, at home. Due to various disabilities (and as you already suspect, chronic malnutrition…) the Spazierengehen activities were quite limited. And in spite of the 220 sq. meters of their nice apartment, most of the familial activities were relegated to the kitchen. This was true also for other blood relatives, living in other countries and speaking other languages, suggesting perhaps a genetic defect in the exploratory instinct so developed in other humans. |
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