31-XII-1992.

Around twonnyayth or ninth we made a party for the kids at the DBA. There was a show first, in pivnica, what with grandpa frost, reciting and gifts, as it goes. The only downside was that the place is too big for so small a firm, but that was countered with lights, kept the rest of it in more or less dark, light where we sat, done.

Meanwhile we left the fir with all the blinking lights on in the office, which seems to have warmed up, caused an additional stir in the around itself, which in turn caused the venetians to slightly swing, which the safety gadget detected and when we returned we were welcomed with a blare of the siren. Of course, the first guy to the door turned it off, we all had keys and knew the code 3690... just down the right edge of the dial, anyone could have guessed it by just seeing how the other keys lacked any sheen. This is when we ascertanined the usefulness of the alarm - despite the cops HQ being just 100m away, across from the underground's driveway, and us paying our share of the guards together with the neighboring shops, nobody stirred. Nobody even noticed.

There was a bunch of kids - we with Nina (Go outgrew the stuff, being twelve, and Lena just a baby, so it was only we two there, took two gift packets, though), Sale with Anđa and two, Brata, Fefi and Blaža with one each; don't know whether Nena and Željko already had one (did next year), and Rade and Gradek (though I don't see the kid on the shots)... Someone brought a collapsible bed, three sponge pads with a pipe frame, times two, so the kids had a mat on which to jump and horseplay.

Half of the shots is at someone's home, I see there's a staircase, a split level ground floor. Only Brata had a house of that size. Actually few more did but those were either not finished, or shared with one's (or spouse's) parents, or it was (e.g. Fefi's) too far, out there in Čurda. So we moved there and continued. Of course, one computer, probably a 286, was set aside for kids to play.

Today I sent an egzek to sezam, probably from the office, it being all stamped at 8:09, and in it

you stil for one party regime, in wic te today's oposition would be te only party. If you didn't tink like tis it would be clear to you tat

SPS would be a very good and nasty opposition, what with *CPY, but I rather think that they'd be severely weakened in personnel because all who jumped the power bandwagon would leave them. Though, this is unprovable (unless empirically) because - I may forecast but cannot say firmly, because they never tried to do anything without the toolbox of power in their hands.

may try to help a litle wit solving te problems.

Don't you tell me. These to rule, and the opposition to handle the crisis, or what? Even the most logical bills were not voted in, only because they were proposed by the opposition!

I'm, speaking frankly, ashamed that I didn't manage to wean myself off tobacco, not because of health (I'll be here as long as I last), but because with at least 4cm of each cigarette I am financing their failures, nebulosae, television and the rest. I'm financing them with everything else I do as well, but that I consider a legal robbery (unless you think of a better expression for 25% tax on a stroller, or 44% on construction material, or 3% on good morning), which is due until the change of power.

Find me an opposition party (apart from the radicals) which would agree to carry its share of the resposibility for all of that (and the rest of it) without actually having any possibility to influence [it], because it's in opposition. Find them, and I'll permanently cross them out from my head, to not vote for them in the next twenty years.

If you aim to, wel intended point out my erors ten tanks for your efort. Maybe I soulded [bih trebao] every one of my mesages to you

Just lay off the man. You pulled the logic, the logic you got. But for language, address me. Be a patriot a bit, and try to be a bit more gentle with the language of your people. It's „možda bi trebalo da“ (maybe it should be that), always in third person singular, and why - that's a matter related to the tradition of ancient Slavs („treba“ was the uprooting of a forest, therefore a radna akcija for the whole village; the Slovenes still say „je treba“, is a need/uprooting). Unless you think the history began in '41, '88 or '90.

And, ah, yes: well, intented or well-intended?

If you tried to point my erors wit te intention to sow your supreme knowledge, know tat you didn't suceed. Maybe I'm not writing everyting as it gramaticaly sould but I tink my mesages were quite clear and understandable. Wic was my goal. Onteoter hand your mesages are absolutely unclear watwit your use of latin language wic

I absolutely recommend to you to read „How to lay a vampire to rest“ by late mr Borislav Pekić. Just to see how semilogic can be wielded, and how it can be done masterly. By application of that semilogic we could arrive at a conclusion that your presence here serves a goal, and that in realization of that goal you employ an unclear language to make your messages quite clear, but are on the other hand well equipped psychologically because no supreme knowledge can harm your conviction, for which purpose you spread (expand) the avoidance of latin language, in which I wholeheartedly support you. Knowing a sufficient number of latin words may be deleterious (sic!) to the acceptance of your conviction on the part of others, because the roots of many words that you use are actually latin (if you didn't know) and then one can easily spot the difference between their primitive (but then was it also the real) meaning and the one that you use. Acquiring knowledge of a sufficient amount of important data may lead to a manifestation of other doubts even where there's no room for doubt.

Ergo, application of semilogic is a favorite sport in these ends, since long ago. If you're in the mood to continue, I'll cook up even more stuff using the same method. Take what little text I wrote here as a small style exercise on the subject brought up by Milan. Our dear Petrović, I suggest we pronounce you the event of the month on the Forum. Look at the size of the avalanche tagging along on your trail.

As for doček, I have no clue what were we doing, probably stayed at home with the girls, had a couple of beers, everyone kissed at midnight... nothing.


Mentions: Aleksandar Raskov (Sale), Blagoje Vrbović (Blaža), Brata Avramov, Čurda, DBA, doček, Ferenc Farkaš (Fefi), Gorana Sredljević (Go), Gradinka Peretić (Gradek), Jelena Sredljević (Lena), Nevena Sredljević (Nina), Nevena Žaja (Nena), pivnica, Rade Peretić, radna akcija, sezam, Željko Žaja, in serbian

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