The themes of the students' work never cease to surprise. Rozálie Nyklíčková, a fourth year student at the FAMO school in Písek, introduced us to her project. They are currently working on an adaptation of Gustav Meyrink's short story Vypařený mozek. They have changed the story slightly - the story takes place in timelessness and in a world where all reasons for war have been exhausted and therefore the fight for intelligence is now on. The paradox, however, is that the general wants to fight for intelligence without intelligence and conscripts the unfinished body of a man without a brain.  The story is very timely, although the work itself was written in the mid-20th century. This story tells of the world in which a young German scientist, Hiram Witt, lives as he wages his personal battle to create a thinking human being, without the biological procedures of reproduction. Of course, Hiram, too, lives in a world where the whole world is waging a war for intelligence. This war is full of absurdity and senselessness, as all wars are, and the events in this story fundamentally underline this absurdity.