Ger Zielinski on 6 Oct 2000 15:41:06 -0000 |
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[Nettime-bold] (fwd) Life is a riot between the wars |
forwarding this response to the revolt in Yugoslavia from Vladislav Mijic... Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 09:39:30 -0400 Reply-To: Film Studies Association of Canada <FSAC@YORKU.CA> Sender: Film Studies Association of Canada <FSAC@YORKU.CA> From: Vladislav Mijic <vmijic@SYMPATICO.CA> Subject: [FSAC] Yugoslavia To: FSAC@YORKU.CA Status: Something I wrote last night, as the events were unfolding in Yugoslavia. Nothing to do with cinema studies, but I felt like sharing it with you anyway. Here it comes: >>>Today has been some day! Fears, hopes and anxieties of many years have finally merged into something worth celebrating. Horror pictures of tanks on the streets, dead bodies, detention camps, dying children, bombed bridges, ominous sirens and all forms of human misery have miraculously, if temporarily, subsided at the sight of those brave people who reached the bottom, the point of no return, and did something about it. It is those brave people I am proud of. I came home, my mind fully transversed back to a different place without necessarily having to transgress to a different time. These glimpses of happiness between hard times that were and hard times to come are precious, snippets of catharsis worth living for. I turned on my CD player, took a bottle of dark Caribbean beer from the fridge and started singing together with Billy Bragg: "...Theirs is a land of hope and glory Mine is the green field and the factory floor Theirs are the skies all dark with bombers And mine is the peace we knew Between the wars. Call up the craftsmen Bring me the draftsmen Build me a path from cradle to grave And I'll give my consent To any government That does not deny a man a living wage. Go find the young men never to fight again Bring up the banners from the days gone by Sweet moderation Heart of this nation Desert us not, we are Between the wars..." And, while I am taking another sip, that line echoes again in my mind: "Go find the young men never to fight again." Sweet dreams, tomorrow is another day and a new beginning, Vlada<<< _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold