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For refreshment

He became hot in an instant, damn – he thought, all sweaty. He felt his T-shirt stick to his back, I will not tell her where I m from. He looked around, people seemed to be the same as everywhere. Nobody was looking at him. It´s not Bydgoszcz that hates Toruń, it´s Toruń that hates Bydgoszcz, everyone knows that! He sighed and looked around once again, he will tell her what he thought of it and... and then will learn nothing, not a word, he was sure of that .And he will be bored for the rest of the day . But if he said nothing it could be less boring… And even more interesting if considered the last sensations. “Lets´ go somewhere, he said in an indifferent tone of voice, it´s too hot here, he turned and went straight forward, they passed a white church, a passage under two tenement houses, a square and he saw the bridge. Let´s go to the bridge, it will be cooler there and no one will eavesdrop if it´s such a secret…

How old do you think this bridge is? She asked and read aloud: “Józef Piłsudski Bridge. Vistula River.” Do you know that this bridge played in a movie about a coup d´etat during the war, because it´s an authentic pre-war old fellow and a movie star, it doesn´t look like it, does it? And it was carried here from another city a wandering bridge, bridgie-walker. And it was also supposed to be named differently. But it´s here and it´s named the way it´s named. And nanny wrote much more…
Oh yes, but where are there any mysterious inscriptions? This bridge was needed for something, why did they wander here, and if they found something, we have to find what they found…

Got it, look, it’s funny, like in a anonymous letter, perhaps it will show us the way to the key …
“But what has it got in common with Copernicus? He wondered muttering. He was an astronomer. “ Listen,” he asked “why the bridge? What has it got in common with Copernicus?” “ What? Aaa… what has it got in common with Copernicus? I don’t know immediately, but if I will think out something, I’ll tell you. Well, if they came across it, it has to have something in common, wait a minute, let me think. You can also wheel and deal sometimes, but didn’t he build anything, like fortresses, he was a kind of an engineer and some kind of a politician too? I have read somewhere, that Copernicus was always interested in a practical adaptation of science and had an opportunity to make the most of his knowledge in mechanics, technology and engineering during the defence of Olsztyn. And it was pure politics with the Teutonics in Varmia…