ANOTHER HERO GOES HOME

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Vaclav Havel 1935-2011. TANTO NOMINI NULLUM PAR ELOGIUM

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May he rest in peace

[dean steinlage (from livejournal.com)]

Can you suggest a good (english language) work of his to read?

Re: May he rest in peace

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I am not a Czech speaker. If I hear from my half-sister (who is), I'll ask her.

TANTO NOMINI NULLUM PAR ELOGIUM

[frittomisto.livejournal.com]

I had to look it up... and then some like Bruce Charlton say Internet is a distraction!

http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2011/12/what-has-internet-ever-done-for-us.html

(That's because he had an education.)

"So great a name (has) no adequate praise" or "no eulogy (would be) appropriate to (praise) ...

What?! The epitaph of Niccolò Macchiavelli?!!!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Santa_Croce_Firenze_Apr_2008_%2820%29.JPG/450px-Santa_Croce_Firenze_Apr_2008_%2820%29.JPG

...who famously declared: "Politics have no relation to morals"?!!!

Fabiaccio, no, Say something, please, even if inadequate or inappropriate!

http://youtu.be/5F0BBmUL-I0

Talk about velvet revolutions, morality in politics, (il grande) Frank Zappa almost becoming the Minister of Culture in Czechoslovakia...

http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/videography/Vaclav_Havel.html

"[His] favorite album was purportedly Zappa's "Bongo Fury."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFpFnteGoc4&feature=bf_prev&list=PLE2E50DD4B80F70AD&lf=results_video

Ti prego, talk about the magic period of Prague that like Paris in the twenties attracted foreigners ('xcept instead of literary ambitions, they had entrepreneural ones).

What a guy! What a period! What happiness! One of the great countries of Europe, the capital of beer, whose greatest national hero is a fictional character...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A1ra_Cimrman#Greatest_Czech_contest

Sbohom Vaclav! I wish a had a pair of bongos!

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[fpb.livejournal.com]

If a sentence is good, what does it matter who it was first used for? Heroes like Havel are indeed above praise, especially mine.