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Herzegovina (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)
“Here in Mostar the really adventurous part of our journey began.” HERZEGOVINA, LIKE DALMATIA, is an historical region in the former Yugoslavia, serving no political or administrative purpose beyond...
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I am thrilled to be featured in the latest episode of the podcast Remembering Yugoslavia with Peter Korchnak about Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon. You can listen here on wherever you get...
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Bosnia (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)
“Look,” I said, “the river at Sarajevo runs red. That I think a bit too much. The pathetic fallacy really ought not to play with such painful matters.” “Yes, it is as blatant as a propagandist...
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Remembering Yugoslavia Meets Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
With many thanks to the Remembering Yugoslavia podcast and Peter Korchnak!
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Serbia (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)
“In the colourless light descending its vaults there waited Constantine’s wife, Gerda, a stout middle-aged woman, typically German in appearance, with fair hair abundant but formless, and grey eyes so...
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Macedonia (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)
The argument here, in Sveti Naum, which has been recognized for a thousand years, is a persuasion towards sanity; a belief that life, painful as it is, is not too painful for the endurance of the...
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The Yugoslav Idea (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)
The whole of history since the ascension of Jesus into heaven is concerned with one work only: the building and perfecting of this “City of God.”St. Augustine The only question in western political...
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Old Serbia (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)
I saw before me what an empire which spreads beyond its legitimate boundaries must do to its subjects. It cannot spread its own life over the conquered areas, for life cannot travel too far from its...
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Montenegro (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)
Under my clothes my skin still kept the joy given by the salt water, the freshness had not left my blood. REBECCA WEST’S EXCURSION in Yugoslavia is coming to an end. That is clear in this slight...
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Epilogue (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)
I hate the corpses of empires, they stink as nothing else. They stink so badly that I cannot believe that even in life they were healthy. AS I WRITE this the first diplomatic talks between Russia and...
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