Yesterday evening there was a big party for Motovun’s children. It started with a Christmas show in the cinema cum theater, and then Santa Claus distributed gifts. All the children, minus those born this year, got something. Karmen Grubor and Sonja Levak organized everything. After the party, they came to Benjamin’s for a drink. For a short while we sat at the same table. When they left the restaurant, they left behind a long list of all the Motovun children, including those from Brkač, Kaldir, and San Bartolo. Before I returned it to Karmen later in the evening, I was delighted to pour over the names and numbers. To make sure the gifts are appropriate, the list is organized by age groups. Twenty-six children were born between 1998 and 2004. Most of the years there were only two or three of them, whereas 2001 and 2004 boast seven and eight respectively. In addition, there are twenty-three children aged three to six in day care. The school children are listed by grade. In the first, second, and third grade there are nine children each, and in the fifth grade there are five. All together, there is eighty-one child on the list. Together with the children born in 2005, there are more than ninety in Motovun and the surrounding villages. Like Tolstoy, a great lover of children in Daniil Kharms’ rendering, I feel like exclaiming in rapture: “More, more!”