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Refund: Fritz Karinthy

  About the playwright   Fritz Karinthy  was a Hungarian  author, playwright, poet, journalist, and translator. He was the first proponent of the six degrees separation concept  in his 1929 short story,  Chains  ( Láncszemek ). Karinthy remains one of the most popular Hungarian writers.   Summary   The play is about a former student of a school Wasserkopf, who demands that his tuition should be refunded because he feels his education was worthless. But eventually, he loses his fight when he is tricked by the mathematics master. The play is full of humor that deals with an extra-ordinarily ridiculous situation.   Wasserkopf is forty years old. He could not get any job and wherever he goes, people tell him that he is fit for nothing. One day he meets Leaderer and asks him about his business. He replies that he was engaged in foreign exchange and Hungarian money. Wasserkopf did not understand anything. Wasserkopf further seeks an explanation about the foreign exchange to t