“History has made lawyers of the Croats, soldiers and poets of the Serbs. It is an unhappy divergence,” she once wrote famously.
Then I stumble on this as I look for the Croatian-font worksheet I lost last week when my Mac’s drive crashed:
And… Are you proud of this? “More than any other Slav nation.”
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Tags: Croats, Rebecca West, Serbs
Me, I'm Nicholas Bakos, a.k.a. "NikoBako." I'm Greek (Roman really, but when I say that in English some five people in the world today understand what I'm talking about, so I use "Greek" for shorthand). I'm from New York. I live all over the place these days. The rest should become obvious from the blog.
See "JADDE: THE MISSION AND STARTING OFF, the blog's first entry below, and JADDE: THE NAME OF THIS BLOG for my general agenda:
Please contact me with comments, questions, complaints or -- please -- corrections at: nikobakos@gmail.com and on Twitter: @jaddeyekabir
Jadde: from Bosnia to Bengal
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