(From "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera)
It was a programme about the Czech emigration, a montage of private conversations recorded with the latest bugging devices by a Czech spy who had infiltrated the emigre community and then returned in great glory to Prague. It was significant prattle dotted with some harsh words about the occupation regime, but here and there one emigre would call anouther an imbecile or a fraud. These trivial remarks were the point of the broadcast. They were meant to prove not merely that emigres had bad things to say about the Soviet Union (which neither surprised nor upset anyone in the country), but they called one another names and made free use of dirty words. People use filthy language all day long, but they turn on the radio and hear a well-known personality, someone they respect, saying "fuck" in every sentence, they feel somehow let down.
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some words are scary.
such as rumours.
people enjoy these over their cups of coffee,
at the expense of others' misery.
reader k | 11/20/2005 04:36:00 PM |
