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  • Ljubljana

    Ljubljana is one of Europe's coolest capital cities, famed for its castle, beautiful bridges, vibran
  • The Chill

    From March 15th all journalists born before 1972 working in Poland will have to sign a declaration that they did not spy for the Polish People’s Republic. That includes me: Polish law has a very
  • Conrad’s Vocabulary

    “Monachal” means pertaining to monks. The OED gives a citation from 1587. A “vaticination” is an inspired or oracular vision – attested in 1603. Perhaps Leavis was making
  • Theatre of the Absurd

    Wikipedia on dialogue in theatre of the absurd: “repetitive or nonsensical dialogue and dramatic non-sequiturs are often used to create dream-like, or even nightmare-like moods.” For example: XX:
  • A question of life and death

    During today’s lunch time news, on the state-funded channel RAI1, we got the following news. “Praying is not a matter of choice. It’s a question of life and death. Only those who pra
  • Polish Universities Finally Getting With The Programme

    Pay attention class. Up till now the primary degree in Poland was not a BA but an MA. This takes five years of study and is awarded on submission of an MA thesis. After the MA you can go on to do a Ph
  • Valley Girls at Versailles

    Over at The Sigla Blog, Sinéad Gleeson gives Sophia Coppola’s Marie-Antoinette a brief but unambiguous mauling (“overblown, dull.”)Although I’m not that pushed to defend
  • Defender of the Faith

    From today’s Indo: TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern said yesterday that “aggressive secularism” had no place in modern pluralist Ireland.Mr Ahern was inaugurating a Church-State forum which he
  • Attention to Detail (Part n)

    I am happy to report that I have solved the mystery of why Polish writers are so sloppy about little things like suspension of disbelief. They’re copying Joseph “monachal vaticinations” Conr
  • Poetry

    Here’s a Polish poem from 1950 in – for reasons that should become obvious – very free translation: “One needs” Stars stars have spread out in heaven Silence descends fro