The following is extracted from an article by Peter Dale Scott in Brick Magazine (number 78):
The prequel is a quotation from Adam Michnik:
I remember that when I once was arrested the police found a box of treatises by Milosz in my apartment. And during the interrogation the officer was saying, ‘Mr Michnik, do you believe [...]






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