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One of the good things about having funky friends is that you never run out of interesting ideas and cool things to toss around and talk about.

The latest from my idea larder:

"Small nations. The concept is not quantitative; it describes a situation; a destiny: small nations haven't the comfortable sense of being there always, past and future; they have all, at some point or another in their history, passed through the antechamber of death; always faced with the arrogant ignorance of the large nations, they see their existence perpetually threatened or called into question; for their very existence is a question...

Ah, small nations. Within that warm intimacy, each envies each, everyone watches everyone. "Families, I hate you!" And still another line from Gide: "There is nothing more dangerous for you than your own family, your own room, your own past.... You must leave them."

(from Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts, by Milan Kundera)


This is Singapore. How comforting to see it written of the European nations too. We are not alone.
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