Exupérymenty – Snětivý Josef Pepson (2014)

Let us allow the most qualified person, writer and actor of the Jára Cimrman Theatre Miloně Čepelka, to speak about Pepson's third poetry collection: "The author continually longs for love and allows himself to be hurt by it, yet he knows that pain enriches. And he increasingly sees how the world is full of deception, cruelty, and hypocrisy. And against them, full of dreams. A contradiction with a contradiction. When he uncovers and names one, others are immediately on the horizon. But that's how it is, and that's how it should be. The paths to truth are thorny, and truth is mysterious and distant, whether we seek it in others or in ourselves. He asked me if this or that word might be exaggerated. Is life really the most beautiful war? I believe it is. And I have nothing against noble concepts if they are lived. I am grateful to him for being able to turn banality and mud into each other. That he seeks harmony in hormones, has a meadow in summer buzzing with bees, and hears roses calling to the Sun God, "You bring us to bloom!", without fortunately distinguishing whether they are thanking or complaining. Most likely both. Because beauty lies in ambiguity, not in certainty. Although we must never overlook that in the footsteps of a beloved woman, damper poppies grow and bloom. The question of whether solitude is lighter on the Moon is also legitimate. And although today people do not approach verses, it is also true that...