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254 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1993
Who now will remind us of the love that clung to us like an infectious disease, never, as it was, bellowed out in the midwinter courtyards, and so never splattered with the city’s dirt – so belated and so useless it was to anyone, useless even to this street prepared for a downpour, to the clump of old trees on the shore, even to the glow lighting up the Bernardine, or that ever approaching cloud, which has stopped now above the drab Bekešo tower – who, come on, say it, who?
Poverty, despair, drunken songs, spring thaws, fog as purple as spilled ink, and the pale blooming of the gone-to-wild lilacs flowed out of Užupis only via the second, cement bridge. In those days, massive dump-trucks still splashed across it too; the government didn’t plan the little bridge for the comfort of plebeians and den-keepers, but so it’d he closer for ferrying bricks, framework, and slabs while constructing the art buildings. Everything an island of art in a sea of poverty needed.