Pro lásku Boží započatou

[sovay]

Ivan Jirous, poet-dissident and manager of the Plastic People of the Universe. It is entirely possible I would not have known of his existence if I had not seen Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll at the Huntington Theatre in 2008. But I fell in love with the play, so I tracked down a copy of Ach to státu hanobení (1976) and now I'm sorry he's gone. If he did not exist, it really would have been necessary for Stoppard to invent him.

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[sovay]

It's so cool when you're able to trace these connections: without this happening, I would never have known this, which led directly to this, etc.

I discover a lot of history through art.