Tag: travel writing

Jean Raspail – tak trochu jiný Exupéry

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Zoufalé snahy kliky lidí z National Review Williama Buckleyho zkrotit torye, a tak si získat uznání a přízeň establishmentu jako „zodpovědní“ konzervativci, si zasluhují rovným dílem výsměch i opovržení. Redaktoři ve svém pochvalném hodnocení návrhu George Balla (mylně označeného za George Willa) „vyslat flotilu záchranných plavidel“ pro uprchlíky z jihovýchodní Asie citují Ballova slova: (more…)

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Během letu z Istanbulu do Minsku dočítám klasiku Anthonyho Burgesse Mechanický pomeranč. Mnohé výrazy Burgessova umělého jazyka „nadsatu“ (v českém překladu „jazyk týnů“), který vychází z ruštiny, se mi v Bělorusku docela dobře osvědčí. (more…)

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I am reading the last pages of Anthony Burgess’ classic A Clockwork Orange on a flight from Istanbul to Minsk. Many terms of the artificial language “Nadsat” it uses, which is based on Russian, will prove to be quite useful in Belarus. (more…)

The Chopin Museum in Warsaw.

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September 24, 2018

Very cold, blustery morning. This is what you picture Warsaw to look like: grey skies, brisk wind, and Polish people bundled in their fur coats, scarves, and Russian hats. Might be time to bust out my Marmot puffer jacket. Thank God I stuffed that into the little side panel on my suitcase as an afterthought in August. I’m gonna need it.

Walking around now thinking about Ewelina, the woman I met at the Soho Factory. That was her name, with the “w” pronounced as a “v.” (more…)

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September 21, 2018

Reading Breitbart News online this morning. Sometimes I get depressed and I don’t want to be on either side of these political fights. The Leftists are deranged, controlling, addicted to their power, and the Right appear to be without sympathy or empathy for anyone but themselves. And yet, it is the Right’s point of view that always feels right to me. (more…)

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9.16.2108 – Krakow

Walked around the cobbled streets of Krakow today with my iPod on. Krakow is a beautiful and slightly sad little city. A high recommend, for a day. It was Sunday, that was good luck, so there were priests running around, and nuns, and churches doing their masses and services . . . Catholic all. Poland is totally Catholic.

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Typical Budapest hostel

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September 4, 2018

I worked this morning at the English used bookstore/café, where I’m having a flirtation with the younger girl who works here. (more…)

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It is rather more pathetic than contemptible, the desperate struggle of William Buckley’s National Review coterie of tame Tories to win acceptance by the Establishment as “responsible” conservatives. In the magazine’s endorsement of George Ball’s (incorrectly identified as George Will’s) proposal to “send an armada of rescue boats” to save the Southeast Asian refugees, Ball is quoted as asking:

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