The banner was made by
Pavel Gan
(left) two days earlier after a Sunday banquet meal of pork, dumplings,
sauerkraut and beer (and Metaxa, to dispel any notion of Czech chauvinism being
tolerated in our midst) at the pleasant house of another - albeit former - exile
"globetrottel"
in Øíèany near Prague; it was smuggled
into the Czech Crown
Inn
in Lipnice by him or his son MichiGan undetected, and unfurled without any
prior warning to the shocking dismay of all present. Way to go Paul!
You may want to notice further evidences of the
uncompromising stance of the organizers when it comes to Czech chauvinism and
purism: People's Exhibit No.1, David Schwenk (seated in the middle under
the banner wearing a deceiving smile of amusement) who is a natural born
American having taken for a wife a Czech woman whose birth's naturalness has not
been probed into. (His work in progress, a book about Jaroslav
Ha Å¡ek, coupled with his other sins, should lead to his likeness being
obliterated from the original of this picture by the guardians of things Czech.)
People's Exhibit No.2, Zenny K. Sadlon (standing right, holding the other
end of the banner and immortalized here when caught in the act of raising his
fist in defiance of the assasins of Ha Å¡ek's
and Å¡vejk's character) who in turn has gained some measure of
naturalness in his life by having taken for a wife a natural born American
woman. Last, but not least, People's Exhibit No.3, Pavel Gan residing in
Germany (of all places!) who took a genuine Ukrainian for a wife. To find out
why Pavel is not even mentioned in
the press release,
come to the next INTERNATIONAL "ha Å¡kiad" at
Lipnice
next year. In the meantime, try to find the answer to that question in his
fascinating NEW book
Osudy humoristy Jaroslava Haška v øíši carù a komisaøù i doma v Èechách
, i.e. The Fateful Adventures of Jaroslav
Ha Å¡ek in the Empire of the Czars and Commissars And Even at Home in the
Czechlands.
