I get up every morning determined both to change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day difficult.
-E.B. White
Chasing your dream taking the road less travelled and all that jazz… In July 1980 I had the once in a lifetime pleasure to meet and work for Karel Schwarzenberg at his Viennese Palace a stone throw away from abode of an Australian Ambassador, Dr James Cumes, who lives with wonderful Heide and Kim. I never understood the better the sentiment of the statement than then ... To those who in their homeland have no freedom, and to those who in their freedom have no homeland.
Karel and Vaclav Havel have been good friends for a long time and Klaus never liked that fact… The appointment of Karel Schwarzenberg as foreign minister in the Czech Republic's latest temporary government has infuriated the Czech president, Vaclav Klaus * Prince Karl XVII von Schwarzenberg (to give him his Austrian title)
The Past is a Foreign Country A hero of his Bohemian time
He never went with the crowd and has written a political memoir like no other
THE publishers probably groaned on receiving the text of this unusual book. It seems scratched together and rushed—even a paste-up job. But there is craft in the casualness. Before becoming his country's first post-Communist president, Vaclav Havel wrote absurdist plays and prison letters about speaking the truth to those in power. An intellectual with a near-liturgical respect for words, he distrusts mass-media patness almost as keenly as he hated Communist doublespeak. A writer with his ear and his ironic humour was never going to spoon-feed readers with a smoothly blended fairy tale.
At the end of his presidency, Mr Havel left behind neither heir nor party. This was no surprise. His whole career, like this book, can be taken as a plea for individuality, for not going with the crowd. Mr Havel is sage enough to know that not everyone wants to stand out. Still, his lesson is a good one, and at times even funny.
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