Showing posts with label obituaries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label obituaries. Show all posts

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Václav Havel

Among the things that really never make me cry: obituaries of famous people, even those I admire a lot, and sopranos, even great ones, singing rock songs. However during Havel's radio obituary this morning, I felt such a wave of grief, at around 1992 in Silvia Poggioli's potted biography (Czechs and Slovaks break up, Havel leaves office for the first time), and then again listening to this:


Look for Havel's face in the audience at around 2:38, so delighted!