Tysofean says he sounds like a cheerful fellow got to say. He was pretty pro-communist early on like especially an early poetry that he wrote but by the time you get around to the joke which is one of his first big novels from 67 this is in response to some political things that were going on at the time. It's all about what is that quote I have tightly written elaborately constructed the joke was an indictment of the bleak absurdity of life under communism but also of life anywhere when betrayal and revenge are allowed to corrode the soul. The Prague spring began in January 1968 when a reformer named Alexander Dubczyk came to power and it lasted around eight months until