Sádlo and Prague and Brno

Prague and Brno is a book squeezed into two texts about two places that many know (or at least think they do). Into two essays, two manifestos. Into two travelogues in which science and poetry thoroughly merge: “It’s summer and autumn, the start of winter, spring again, the whole year I walk around Prague. Hot pavement and asphalt. I’m sitting on the first step of a church, which no Praguer would do, and right by me some colourfully clad female in skirt and hat crows, sits on a step and guzzles water from a plastic bottle, repeatedly drinking then crowing a bit. A crazy, a tourist, or both. So now there are two of us loonies. A third here with us is trodden down Stellaria media, chickweed, here at the heel of the first step of the church in Spálená St.”