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How long a heart attack takes over three hundred feet, how much a spider's life weighs, why a sad man writes to the cruel river,and what magic the Comrade in Chiefof the unfinished can work
How sweet dark red is, how many oxen you need to pull down a wall,why Kraljevic Marko's horse is relatedto Superman, and how war can come to a party
Who wins when Walrus blows the whistle, what an orchestra smells of, when you can't cut fog, and how a story leads to an agreement
When flowers are just flowers, howMr. Hemingway and Comrade Marx feel about each other, who's the real Tetris champion, and the indignity sufferedby Bogoljub Balvan's scarf
When something is an event, when it'san experience, how many deathsComrade Tito died, and how the once-famous three-point shooter gets behindthe wheel of a Centrotrans bus
What Milenko Pavlović, known as Walrus, brings back from his wonderful trip, how the stationmaster's leg loses control of itself, what the French are good for, and why we don't need quotation marks
Where bad taste in music gets you, what the three-dot-ellipsis man denounces, and how fast war moves once it really gets going
What we play in the cellar, what peastaste like, why silence bares its fangs,who has the right sort of name, what a bridge will bear, why Asija cries, how Asija smiles
How the soldier repairs the gramophone, what connoisseurs drink, how we're doing in written Russian, why chub eat spit, and how a town can break into splinters
Emina carried through her village in my arms
26 April 1992
9 January 1993
17 July 1993
4 January 1994
Hi. Who? Aleksandar! Hey, where areyou calling from? Oh, not bad! Well,lousy, really, how about you?
16 December 1995
What I really want
1 May 1999
Aleksandar, I really, reallywant to send you this package
Aleksandar Krsmanović
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Contents
Foreword
Ice cream
Wish
Parade
1 May 1989, or, The Chickin the Pioneer's Hand
There are no Partisans now
A wonderful trip
How to disappear
Why Či ka Doctor cut the calf of someone's leg open
Why Vukoje Worm whose nose has been broken three times doesn't break mine
Sas'a Stanis'ic; Why Čika Hasan and Čika Sead are inseparable, and what even those who know most about catfish can't count on
How the game of chess relates to world politics, why Grandpa Slavko knows revolutions may come tomorrow, and how things can sometimes be so difficult to say
The promise a dam must keep,what the most beautiful language in theworld sounds like, and how often aheart must beat to beat shame
Why houses are sympathetic and unselfish, what music they make, and whyI want them to stay sympatheticand unselfish, and above all to stand firm
What victory is the best, what Grandpa Slavko trusts me to do, and why peopleact as if your fears are less if youdon't talk about them
How the bold river Drina is feeling, how the lipless Drina is really feeling, what she thinks of little Mr. Rzav, and how little you need to be as happy as a falcon
11 February 2002
I'm Asija. They took Mama and Papaaway with them. My name has a meaning.Your pictures are horrible
Out of three hundred and thirty Sarajevo numbers rung at random, about every fifteenth has an answering machine
What makes the Wise Guys wise, howmuch you ought to bet on your own memory, who is found, and who is still made up
What goes on behind God's feet, why Kiko picks up the cigarette, where Hollywood is, and how Mickey Mouse learns to answer
I've made lists
Comrade in Chief of all that's unfinished
Acknowledgments
