So, I watched from behind an icicle plant bank getting angrier and angrier by the minute.

Glossopoeia, which is neither an imitative language nor a creation of names, takes us back to the borderline of the moment when the word has not yet been born, when articulation is no longer a shout but not yet discourse, when repetition is almost impossible, and along with it, language in general: the separation of concept and sound, of signified and signifier, of the pneumatical and the grammatical, the freedom of translation and tradition, the movement of interpretation, the difference between the soul and the body, the master and the slave, God and man, the author and the actor.

Instead of the usual homogeneity, one discerns a variety of attitudes ranging from warm official friendship and unlimited support (Bulgaria and the GDR) to somewhat lukewarmer relations on a less formal level (Poland and Hungary).

After the initial burn the goal of any good fire should be coaling; that is, creating a bed of solid coals that will sustain the fire.