Comment by thaumasiotes
1 month ago
My favorite part of wikipedia's article on Onfim is this absurdly understated sentence:
> One of the drawings features a knight on a horse, with Onfim's name written next to him, stabbing someone on the ground with a lance, with scholars speculating that Onfim pictured himself as the knight.
I guess we'll never truly be able to know what Onfim was thinking when he drew a knight named "Onfim" stabbing an enemy with a lance from horseback. The past is a foreign country, and the mind of a child can't be understood anyway.
The article suggests it's his teacher, and I'm inclined to believe this. Pretty consistent with the idea of a kid who doesn't want to do homework, and scorns the source of all homework (the teacher)