Rambling On: An Apprentice’s Guide to the Gift of the Gab

Bohumil Hrabal Rambling On: An Apprentice’s Guide to the Gift of the Gab

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Rambling On: An Apprentice’s Guide to the Gift of the Gab

I dedicate this translation first and foremost to the memory of my good friend and fellow-translator of B. Hrabal James Naughton, who sadly died just weeks before this volume saw the light of day, and also to the memory another of our colleagues, Michael Henry Heim.

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In a lightweight play one may find

some most serious truth.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, philosopher of the Late Baroque

Essential to playing is freedom.

Immanuel Kant, philosopher of the Enlightenment

When you’re pissed, Kilimanjaro

might even be in Kersko.

Josef Procházka, roadmender and my friend

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