If a people have never spoken, the first words they utter are poetry.
-- Ferdinando Camon in La Stampa, December 16, 1989
He was referring to Czechoslovakia's "Velvet Revolution." I just read this quote in Tony Judt's amazing Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. Vaclav Havel will be artist in residence for eight weeks at Columbia University this fall.
