OPISZ miejsce, które wywarło na Tobie największe wrażenie w dzieciństwie.
I vaguely remember the time when I was a very young child. There are not many things I have treasured from that period but for sure there is one.
I was about five then and I went with my father to Mordstor, an industrial town, in order to buy a piano. When we were crossing the ‘borders’ of the town I felt as if I was entering a completely different world. A world of magic and unknown territories. Gloomy fields of greyness, countless blocks of flats and monumental Soviet-like buildings, weird, dispirited, local people – such things I remember. When I got out from my father’s van, I felt a strange smell. It was not like anything I had ever smelt before. It evoked images of enormous machines working in gigantic halls surrounded by barren wasteland.
Since then my life has dramatically changed, nothing was the same as before. I have always had in mind the picture of this lurid place and was afraid of it. It was a land of my childhood, despite the fact that I was there only once – never did I dare to get there again. Nowadays Mordstor is thought to be the ‘worst’ place in my country – full of aggressive and dangerous young men, only waiting for an occasion to mob somebody. There are also a lot of poor, unemployed people who manage to survive by selling anything they have found or stolen.
There is little wonder that nobody wants to live there, and those who can afford to move out leave the place at a first opportunity. Such is Mordstor, the land of my childhood, the wasteland.
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