'The interrogation' - Part 5 of the series 'Bourgeois Desires' by Karin Sawetz
Part 5: 'The interrogation'
Part 4: 'Woke up!'
Part 2: 'The nice wife of the policeman'Part 1: 'The dark side of a counselor's life'
The story about the Austrian state counselor (in German 'Hofrat') is purely fictional and inspired by a dream by the series' author Karin Sawetz.
"Which political party would be a problem for you, Mr. Hofrat?" asks the woman in the interrogation room where she has to face the accusations of the Hofrat.
"None. I can continue my work (he laughs) under any possible constellation. "
"Too bad. I would need a decision-making aid where I should make a cross in a few days," laughs the policewoman's wife.
"You'll soon be laughing on the other side of your face."
"Not as long as I look at you, Mr. Hofrat, and thinking of your ideas. Do you like your work the way I think?" The counselor begins to note that the woman enjoys the game; she moves around him like a cat around the mouse; he misjudged her. Her attraction appeals to be fatal. The counselor breathes in shorter intervals, he says with a lightly outraged voice - almost as if out of breath. "A normal woman would be ashamed of what she is accused of. These allegations against you are as lawsuit pending."
"You mean a normal woman would be ashamed of what you accuse her of. Suppose I am ashamed; what would be your next step? Would you offer to a woman who is ashamed that the procedure will be stopped if she is, let’s say, nice to you? And if she no longer laughs about you?" She breaks out again in laughter.
"Don't be naughty!"
"What do you want to do?" asks the woman the counselor, who still doesn’t know who he wanted to bring into distress here. "We can play this for a long time, Mr. Hofrat. Now you know that I’m as you express it ‘not a normal woman’. Have you ever imagined that? Have you ever imagined to have a woman like me in your life?”
