If a politician demands to be accorded the honors due to a modern Gandhi. it is possibly because he fears that the spirit of Gandhi will testify against him.
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Separately, one interesting thing about Kraznahorkai's work is his collaborations with Bela Tarr. The film about the fellow who beat the horse in front of Nietzsche is very worthwhile. K is an actor in it as well, I think. I think I read that Tarr is now based in Sarajevo. The diaspora goes in all directions.
There was an interesting below-the-radar moment when Budapest sent a contingent of police, ostensibly for training, to the Bosnian Serb entity at a time when the arrest of the leader was being mooted, and the goal of the exercise turned out to be a possible exfiltration. These lines of affinity and alliance are centuries old. There apparently was a moment at the last NATO summit when the US president turned and high-fived the Turkish president after reading northern Europe the riot act. That moment might linger in a few memories. And then there's the odd saga of the NY mayor, close to the Porte Formerly Known as Sublime, who is now cultivating a relationship with Zog's state to the north, which is very closely aligned.
(Apparently, Zog wasn't mad, he was just having to constantly elude the vengeance killers who were seeking him out in the opera houses of Europe. The vengeance code is still the operative mode of justice in parts of that country, though apparently the church is starting to make inroads on it.)
(End of Joycean political riff.)