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Postscript: Vaclav Havel, 1936-2011

In a parallel universe, in a luckier realm, Havel would have lived out his life as a Czech epigone of Ionesco and Beckett, a carefree son of privilege, free to write, to pursue his pleasures, to listen to the rock ‘n roll he loved. Instead, like a living figure from Kafka, he was born to a system where absurdity, not law, ruled; calmly, resolutely, he pursued a life of dissidence, led a revolution, and then assumed a home in the Castle, the seat of power in liberated Prague…

- David Remnick remembers Vaclav Havel:  http://nyr.kr/vdUGhA

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    The only REAL president of my country !

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    This man provided me with hope in humanity.

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    Oh, I should get one of his plays.

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