Reflections of a working writer and reader
All art is deception and so is nature; all is deception in that good cheat, from the insect that mimics a leaf to the popular enticements of procreation. Do you know how poetry started? I always think that it started when a cave boy came running back to the cave, through the tall grass, shouting as he ran, "Wolf, wolf," and there was no wolf. His baboon-like parents, great sticklers for the truth, gave him a hiding, no doubt, but poetry had been born - the tall story had been born in the tall grass. Vladimir Nabokov
In Warsaw, Poland’s conservative government attempts to curb homosexual propaganda. Tinky Winky and the other Teletubbies under house arrest.
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Dear,
I have found your blog by chance searching for literacy opinions, texts, blogs, etc. I’m Polish and the post of Tinky Winky’s problems with law is both funny and terrible experience for me. Unfortunately Tinky Winky case has appeared as a main topic to discuss this week. I am really ashamed of it as a Pole.
For the worse today the Minister of Education is going to limit some of obligatory reading for secondary students. The limit contains such writers like Goethe, Conrad, Dostoyevsky, Kafka and Polish authors: Gombrowicz and Witkacy. Dark times have come for Polish culture under the reign of twin brothers and their ultra conservative government.
Best regards,
andrzej
jb says: Sorry to hear all this, Andrzej. Surely these two idiots can’t last long, can they? The world has come to expect more of Poland. Where is the spirit of Solidarity?