Meziřádky - Náboženství, lyrika, politika – Schildberger František (2022)

A diary-structured collection of glosses, reflections, comments, and essays by the publicist and poet František Schildberger is a subjective testimony of one year of life – the year 2021; it is a collection that is provocative in many ways regarding the author's faith (in the doctrine and authority of the church) and disbelief (in some dogmas of liberal society). It also reflects the ever-present intense joy of life, often (and repeatedly) intertwined with annoyance at those who, in the author's opinion, spoil our joy of life… ------------------------------------ Archaeologists yesterday unearthed a piece of the skull of a woolly rhinoceros on Vídeňská Street in Brno. He was a happy and cheerful fellow. He measured over four meters in length and two meters in height, weighing five tons, but that didn't bother him. Before winter, he protected himself with a thick coat of beautiful dark brown fur. When he wanted to run, he could reach speeds of over 20 kilometers per hour, but otherwise, he strolled comfortably at a speed of about 3 to 4 km/h. Together with other rhinoceroses, he would drink clean water from the Svratka and graze in the dense vegetation on the slopes of the Červený Hill. He didn't like mammoths and avoided mammoth hunters. But he never harmed anyone. Only once did he kill a Chinese poacher eager for horn, who had come to him through a time portal from the 21st century in Shanghai;…