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or, more precisely, on the corner of the gregorčičeva and the 5 may streets,
right beside the monument to fallen soldiers which bears words glory to
those fallen for our freedom (Semenič 2013, 3).
Thus in 1981, ethics, morality and belonging to the collective are still
operational. Luka’s mum deals earnestly with his theft of a bananko, a
chocolaty sweet he picked up from the floor in the supermarket, shop as-
sistant Jagoda gives Erik a piece of uncut glass that seems like a diamond,
Boris has his dream job of a truck driver in the construction company
Primorje waiting for him. Moreover, this is the time when the young and
the old meet, carefree, in a smoky bar, where some play chess and oth-
ers debate all sorts of things. True, this society is not entirely without
114 its problems and personal tragedies. The text even begins with a corpse.
A corpse of unknown gender, lying on the asphalt as a victim of a car
crash, with a pool of blood expanding from underneath it. Luka’s father,
paramedic Darko, is an alcoholic who prefers spending the afternoon in
the bar to going to his son’s Pioneer inauguration. Boris’s friend Štef will
marry Boris’s ex-girlfriend Jagoda, who is pregnant.
The first cracks in the social system also begin to show. It is 1981, the
year whose spring saw mass protest in Kosovo, where the Albanians de-
manded their own republic and the recognition of the Albanians as a con-
stitutive nation of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia. The
federal government declared a state of emergency and sent the army to
confront the protesters, and the army used weapons. There were deaths.
Boris was also in Kosovo, but the painful experience is only alluded to.
zmago
so it was fucked up down in kosovo
boris
fucked up, yes
zmago
and how long were you there
boris
a fortnight
never mind that, i don’t feel like discussing it
better tell me what’s new (Semenič 2013, 35, 36).
or, more precisely, on the corner of the gregorčičeva and the 5 may streets,
right beside the monument to fallen soldiers which bears words glory to
those fallen for our freedom (Semenič 2013, 3).
Thus in 1981, ethics, morality and belonging to the collective are still
operational. Luka’s mum deals earnestly with his theft of a bananko, a
chocolaty sweet he picked up from the floor in the supermarket, shop as-
sistant Jagoda gives Erik a piece of uncut glass that seems like a diamond,
Boris has his dream job of a truck driver in the construction company
Primorje waiting for him. Moreover, this is the time when the young and
the old meet, carefree, in a smoky bar, where some play chess and oth-
ers debate all sorts of things. True, this society is not entirely without
114 its problems and personal tragedies. The text even begins with a corpse.
A corpse of unknown gender, lying on the asphalt as a victim of a car
crash, with a pool of blood expanding from underneath it. Luka’s father,
paramedic Darko, is an alcoholic who prefers spending the afternoon in
the bar to going to his son’s Pioneer inauguration. Boris’s friend Štef will
marry Boris’s ex-girlfriend Jagoda, who is pregnant.
The first cracks in the social system also begin to show. It is 1981, the
year whose spring saw mass protest in Kosovo, where the Albanians de-
manded their own republic and the recognition of the Albanians as a con-
stitutive nation of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia. The
federal government declared a state of emergency and sent the army to
confront the protesters, and the army used weapons. There were deaths.
Boris was also in Kosovo, but the painful experience is only alluded to.
zmago
so it was fucked up down in kosovo
boris
fucked up, yes
zmago
and how long were you there
boris
a fortnight
never mind that, i don’t feel like discussing it
better tell me what’s new (Semenič 2013, 35, 36).
