Thomas Wictor

Posts Tagged ‘Romanian proverb’

Protect me from my friends

I can’t write a long post tonight because I’m on a new medication. It makes me extremely groggy. The effect should wear off in a couple of weeks. Therefore I’ll recycle an old post and add to it. This is about the notion of who or what we can depend on to protect us. Since…

 

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Romanian proverb

Sometimes we all feel a little Romanian. Here’s one of their proverbs: Protect me, Lord, from my friends. As for my enemies, I will take care of them myself. Once upon a time, in an abandoned Soviet embassy… Hard to believe that was almost thirty years ago. Some of my most indelible memories involve nocturnal…

 

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