AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Gotwald and Clementus From the Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Clementus, who famously had given his fur hat to Gotwald on a freezing day in Prague, was later seen as an enemy of the state. So this is one of these famous stories of someone literally being cropped out of images so that you only see Gotwald and Clementus has been erased from photographic history. And then those young, intelligent, and radical people suddenly had the strange feeling of having sent out into the world an act that had begun to lead a life of its own. It did not care about those who created it. They began to call it, to pursue it, to rebuke it,. If I were to write a gifted and radical generation, I would call it an