Daily Dose

From The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera, translated by Michael Henry Heim

LET

"Let me return to this dream."

From Chapter 15

Clerihew for a Democrat

KAREL CAPEK

Karel Capek's
Favorite topics?
Robots? Newts?
Fighting the brutes.

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Daily Dose

From War with the Newts, by Karel Capek

INTRODUCTION

"The introduction of the Newts of course did not take place everywhere equally smoothly..."

From Chapter 2, Along the Steps of Civilization (The Annals of the Newts)

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Daily Dose

From Empty Streets, by Michal Ajvas, translated by Andrew Oakland

FROM

"'From the moment I set out to find you, I've become enmeshed in so many stories,' I continued. 'I've learned about pirates, monsters living in underground lakes, prophets of strange sects, inventors of the typewriter, mysterious books, evil women who change into piles of waste paper, underwater statues, South American beautiful women terrorists, and men learned in bizarre sciences. I'd begun to believe you didn't exist.'"

From Part Two, Chapter Two

Clerihew of Unbearable Lightness

MILAN KUNDERA

Milan Kundera
Never could bear a
Recurrence eternal
Of even the vernal.
.

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Clerihew for a Nobel Czech

JAROSLAV SEIFERT

However the censors might try,
The Nobel they could not deny
And could no longer thereby hurt
Seifert.

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Clerihew Checked

JAROSLAV HASEK

Can't help but like
The Good Soldier Švejk
And admire the cheek
Of Jaroslav Hašek.

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Clerihew of the Blissful Years of Lousy Living

MICHAL VIEWEGH

Michal Viewegh
Dined on a poached egg
Back in the Soviet Era
And dreamed of life on the Riviera.