The shop was run by a man named Staszek, but the nickname "The Scanner" had stuck after he acquired a contraption that no one else in the faculty possessed—a semi-functional photocopier that he had supposedly bartered from a visiting Bulgarian delegation.

"You," the Professor pointed a bony finger at Marek. "Define the mechanism of action of atropine."

Marek blinked. "PDF? What is that?"

It felt like studying from a ghost.