Matouš Hejl

1. T H E  A L P H A B E T  O F  M O D E R N  S O C I E T Y -- O F  M O D E R N  M A N (from Anticodes)

2. „Once you’re here, however, whether you want to or not, you have to ask the question: does all of this have a meaning, and if so, what?
What, in fact, is man responsible to? What does he relate to? What is the final horizon of his actions?

What is the thing- he incessantly inquires after
What is the thing- toward which his actions are directed
What is the thing- he can trust in and strive for

And likewise, what is the most important witness or the secret sharer in his daily conversations with himself (- regardless of what situation he has been thrown into)

„Once you’re here, however, whether you want to or not, you have to ask the question: does all of this have a meaning, and if so, what?
Ultimately, I can only find an answer – a positive answer – within myself, in my general faith in the meaning of things, in my hope.
(from Letters to Olga)

3. S W E E T D R E A M S
Don't cry
Eat
Drink
Pee
Speak
Walk
Don't be naughty
Learn
Don't fight
Don't lie
Be ashamed
Work
Don't party
Love
Get married
Make money
Don't drink
Bring up
Don't fuck yourself up
Be of use
Eliminate
Retract
Confess
Don't be in the way
Leave
Wash yourself
Don't mumble
Pee
Drink
Eat
Don't cry
S W E E T D R E A M S
(from Anticodes)

4. Václav Havel - radio interview

5.Our greengrocer's attempt to live within the truth may be confined to not doing certain things. The greengrocer may begin to do something concrete, (something that goes beyond an immediately personal self-defensive reaction against manipulation,) something that will manifest his newfound sense of higher responsibility.

By breaking the rules of the game, he has disrupted the game as such. He has exposed it as a mere game. He has shattered the world of appearances, the fundamental pillar of the system. He has demonstrated that living a lie is living a lie. He has enabled everyone to peer behind the curtain. He has shown everyone that it is possible to live within the truth.(from the Power of the Powerless)

6. B A R R I E R

slova já slova ty já já slova ty ty

(I - words - you) (from Anticodes)

7.„I’ve run away. I’ve run away to Hrádeček. I’m here alone and I feel uneasy. Everything reminds me of the decades I’ve been through in this place. I like it here. It’s my refuge, my existential home, but again and again I realize there’s no going back, and that by now I’m not the same person I was when I wrote my plays, prepared my experimental meals, threw light-hearted parties, and organized secret dissident meetings. I’m older, sicker, wearier.“
(diary entry)

8. N I C

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N Ě K O D
N Ě K D O (someone)
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