Czech it out...
Everyone has the best of feelings towards mankind in general, but not towards the individual man. We’ll kill men, but we want to save mankind. And that isn’t right, your Reverence. The world will be an evil place as long as people don’t believe in other people.
― Karel Čapek, The Absolute at Large
One of my favorite authors to read–in both Czech and English–is Karel Čapek. If you’re interested in science fiction, surrealism, satire, and/or literary critiques of fascism, corporatization, and greed, then you might like to czech out some of his work. And if you’d like to learn how to read him in the original, and happen to live in New York (it also helps if you’re a masochist), then sign up for the introductory Czech class which begins this week at the Czech Center. The teacher is as good as it gets, if you want to learn Czech…
