the bells

2017-04-01 11:20 · 1 min

Kundera turns 87 today.

I went up to Petrov this Friday morning to hear the bells. In Brno the cathedral rings noon at eleven o'clock, since the Swedish siege in 1645.

I counted the strokes. Twelve, at eleven. Or eleven. For the first time in my life I lost count somewhere in the middle and had to guess.