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vrgel prazno steklenico skozi okno. Zaslišal who were quite affected by it, he himself
je krik, pogledal skozi okno in videl, da na remained sober. He did not become a slave
cesti leži poleg razbite steklenice neka žens- to alcohol. When he had to go on a diet due
ka. Zelo se je prestrašil, da jo je ubil. Pozne- to illness, he easily gave up drinking.
je se je izkazalo, da steklenica ženske ni za- Interestingly, Plemelj loved to tell his stu-
dela, temveč je padla tik ob njej na tla in se dents and younger colleagues about his ‘achieve-
razbila. Ženska se je tega tako ustrašila, da je ments’ of youthful ‘exuberance’. Vidav, who was
padla in zakričala. Take stvari se pač zgodijo 40 years younger than Plemelj, recalled anoth-
mladim, ki so radoživi in ne pomislijo vselej, er unusual incident from Plemelj’s student days
kakšne posledice ima lahko neko dejanje. in an interview for OMF conducted by Dam-
ijan Kobal in 2007, how he once ‘killed an old
Oset (2024) se v knjigi, ki je osrednji pred- woman’, which is difficult to explain without the
136 met naše recenzije, pijače pri Plemlju dotakne presence or absence of alcohol.
zelo diskretno – v njegovi zapuščini da so ohra-
njene »krokarske razglednice«. Eno od njih mu As a student, he lived somewhere on Petk-
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je poslal Georg Faber iz Oktoberfesta v Münch- ovškovo nabrežje and once threw an empty
nu septembra 1901. Na njej je zapisal, da bo spil bottle out of the window without thinking.
vrček piva na čast Plemljeve izvolitve. Razumeti He heard a scream, looked out of the window
pa moramo, da so bili to drugačni časi. Še ko sem and saw a woman lying on the street next to
bil v drugi polovici 20. stoletja otrok, so me do- a broken bottle. He was very scared that he
mači pošiljali v trgovino po rum in v trafiko po had killed her. Later, it turned out that the
cigarete. Pa tudi k »Šumiju« sem začel zahajat bottle had not hit the woman, but had fallen
že kot dijak. Dandanes pa povsod piše, da sta to- to the ground right next to her and broken.
bak in alkohol škodljiva za zdravje in sta veliko The woman was so frightened that she fell
težje dostopna mladoletnikom. and screamed. Such things happen to young
Na Akademiji je Plemelj zelo hvalil študenta people who are lively and do not always think
in svojega kasnejšega naslednika Ivana Vidava, ki about the consequences of their actions.
je doktoriral pri njem leta 1941, pri triindvajsetih Oset touches on the subject of drinking at
letih. Ko se je Vidav naslednje leto vrnil iz Rima, Plemelj’s very discreetly. His estate contains a
kamor ga je bil med okupacijo poslal Plemelj, je collection of ‘drinking postcards’. One of them
slednjemu zaupal, da se je dolgočasil, ker tam ni was sent to him by Georg Faber from the Ok-
slišal nič takega, kar ne bi že prej zvedel od njega toberfest in Munich in September 1901. On it,
v Ljubljani. Oset v knjigi pojasni, da je bil eden he wrote that he would drink a mug of beer in
glavnih vzrokov za pasivno vlogo Vidava v Rimu honour of Plemelj's election. However, we must
njegovo neznanje italijanščine. Bil je sicer rojen understand that those were different times. Even
na Opčinah, a se je cela družina kmalu po izgubi when I was a child in the second half of the 20th
Primorske preselila na Štajersko. century, my parents sent me to the shop to buy
Ko sem začel v srednji šoli (1964–1967) tek- rum and to the tobacconist’s to buy cigarettes.
movati iz matematike, mi je moj ded nekoč po- I also started going to ‘Šumi’ as a student. Now-
daril vse tri Plemljeve knjige, ki so v letih 1953– adays, however, it is widely known that tobacco
1962 izhajale pri SAZU. Bil sem popolnoma and alcohol are harmful to health and are much
presenečen, saj nisem vedel, da doma hrani tudi more difficult for minors to access.
matematične knjige. Vedel sem tudi, da ga mate- At the Academy, Plemelj spoke very high-
matika ni zanimala. Razlaga je bila seveda pre- ly of his student and later successor, Ivan Vidav,
prosta. Iz SAZU so mu še dolga leta po tem, ko who obtained his doctorate under Plemelj’s su-
so ga zaradi zahtev politike odpustili, pošiljali vse pervision in 1941 at the age of twenty-three.