Posted 3 years, 5 months ago in the wee hours by oso
There is a scene in Milan Kundera’s Farewell Waltz that keeps replaying in my head these past couple of weeks. I’ll save you the details, but esentially, the protagonist - after a lifetime of politics - comes to the conclusion that beauty is eternal while politics is forever in flux. In classic Kundera form, [...]







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