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The words of the most important living Czech writer, Milan Kundera,
graphically illustrate an important dilemma with which anyone
involved in working with the concept of ICH struggles. Referring to
a colorful and ancient ceremony, the folk tradition called
‘The Ride of the Kings’, he writes:
Yesterday’s action is obscured by today, and the
strongest link binding us to a life constantly eaten
away by forgetting is nostalgia.
Remorseful nostalgia and remorseless skepticism are
the two pans of the scales that give the novel its
equilibrium.
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