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style="position:absolute;top:4212.63px;left:0px;">out, whereas his own – so that it wouldn’t be a con-stant reminder of his embarrassment – he had delet-ed, as well as her number, just in case he got carried away in a moment of weakness and called her out of the blue, like the other day when he got her automat-ed messaging service. Her voice still chimed in his ears. It was one of those voices, he thought, where the shittier things were in general the more common it was - as annoyingly velvety as the one for his mobile phone company commercials. Like a suit and heels, it was the voice she wore to work. Nothing like the one, more casual and, in the end, more human, at the bookstore. While the former verged on kitsch, at least

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+ and for him to think of that so spontaneously and directly, it must mean that that’s exactly how it was

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in the way Kundera defined it as “kýč je absolutní popření hovna; v doslovném i přeneseném slova smys-lu”20, the latter was full-on vernacular, and from time to time even scatological. Thus, the words “ I don’t give a shit”, as well as a “they can go do one, those shits”, plus a “they are in deep shit” Lola must have uttered about three times each during the conversation, without hiding the fact that she enjoyed it so much that it was like she kept them on stand-by in order to in-sert them on purpose as soon as the opportunity arose. This was something that incidentally also applied to anything in her crosshairs, no matter how slightly or completely irrelevant they were to the context.

And what was in her crosshairs? Whatever belonged to the euphemistically-called – disjointed and topsy-turvy as it was – camp that we were previously talking about. Which whilst, like Ancient Greece in relation to Rome, had been overwhelmed on the battlefield, it triumphed – purportedly – at an ideological, aesthetic, moralistic and symbolic one, governing over consciences. The vilification and belittlement of Ayn Rand’s heritage, the distortion of who she was and what she wanted, was nothing but one of the epiphenomena of its domin-

20 “Kitsch is the absolute denial of shit, in both the literal and the figurative senses of the word” (Originally in Czech).

+ and, something even more annoying, no matter whether it was not in the crosshairs of her interlocutor too.

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ion, which for the country’s sake, thank the heavens, according to Lola, was in its last days.

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