MOOSPRUGGER’S MISTAKE

Professor Moosprugger said that he had gone to the West station in Vienna to pick up a colleague whom he did not know personally but knew only from correspondence. He had expected a different person from the one who actually arrived at the West station. When I drew Moosprugger’s attention to the fact that the person who arrives is always someone different from the person we expect, he got up and left simply and solely for the purpose of breaking off and abandoning all the contacts he had ever established throughout his life.