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Liked It Rated 5 stars “Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz was born of Polish/Lithuanian parentage. He subsequently immigrated to the United States and was professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California in Berkeley. This book is a collection of poetic essays and memoirs. Each chapter is...” see full review » see other reviews »

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  “Oh but this book cannot be read too many times. I've read it forwards and backwards and by happenstance. Each time a new tidbit stirs me. Amazing.”

  noktylos wrote this review Friday, November 9 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
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  “Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz was born of Polish/Lithuanian parentage. He subsequently immigrated to the United States and was professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California in Berkeley. This book is a collection of poetic essays and memoirs. Each chapter is excellent; it is difficult to pick favorites. However I will provide but two examples: from Discreet Charm of Nihilism, "Religion, opium for the people. To those suffering pain, humiliation, illness, and serfdom, it promised a reward in an afterlife. And now we are witnessing a transformation. A true opium for the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged." From "But," "Why, yes, this current really ran through me, and really, I, shrunken, hunched, continue to be the same instrument. How is this possible?"”

  tapbirds wrote this review Tuesday, November 27 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No