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A younger Kundera, sure—certainly not juvenile. We’re feeling rather more Dostoevsky than Vonnegut here.

I’m awfully sentimental over his depictions of the suburbs of Ostrava; this incongruity of the destitute and the idyll reminds me dearly of home.

62 hit me like a truck. anyway
Apr 09, 2026 09:33AM
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Part Four (Jaroslav) a dearly welcome change xx ludvik was feeding me rocks xxxxx

“I can sense my back touching the grassy earth. I feel it with my back. I support it on my back and beg it not to be afraid of being heavy and resting its full weight on me.” what an interesting man

“And here I lie, long and big, and I think how powerless I am.”
Apr 14, 2026 12:06PM
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Woof
Apr 13, 2026 12:15PM
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Interesting (and rather darling!) to see Milan’s own motifs already present, motif motif included. Recursive motif-ing. Motif-ception if u will

This is a far younger voice. Often needlessly acrobatic& a joy nonetheless. I’m reminded of a note I left in Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, something to the tune of ‘I am watching a man play racquetball with himself’
Apr 08, 2026 04:28AM
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