Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 06:37:30 -0800 From: insomnia <insomnia at EUnet.yu> Subject: thursday, april 1
dear everybody, the main novi sad bridge has been taken down completely. we are cut off from belgrade. no water today. shortage of bread and milk. if you do not hear from me anything more, this means i fled from the city, because life becomes insupportable here. everything hurts, everybody hurts. now i feel like an island - cut off, cut off, cut off from everything. peace with you all.
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Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 12:54:15 -0800 From: insomnia <insomnia at EUnet.yu> Subject: thursday, april 1/2
i feel devastated today, more than ever. right at the crack of dawn, the oldest novi sad bridge was taken down by a nato rocket. a bus full of workers was about to cross the bridge a second before it exploded. sheer luck saved them from death. still, nobody knows how many people died in the explosion. some surely did. and that is not all - the faculty of philosophy, where i teach, is also demolished. since the faculty is in the vicinity of the bridge, all the glasses on its front side are crashed. and that is not all - the museum of vojvodina, which treasures many priceless exibits dating from the beginning of this millenium, has also been seriously damaged. and that is not all - the primary school 'djordje natosevic' has also been badly damaged. and, that is not all - people have been coming down to the destroyed bridge as to a chapel of mourning. novi sad mourns today its bridge that was indispensible part of every postcard showing it. right by the bridge, on the other bank of the river, there is a hospital. i cannot tell if it is ruined or not. i cannot bear to look at these horrors anymore. a nightmare. my very special someone is in belgrade - that is, the hypnos part of me. now we are further than we ever are, separated by a river that cannot be crossed anymore. separated by 'the door ajar that oceans are'. this was emily dickinson, a poet from a nato country, remember? robin cooke in his today's address frowns at the internet and rejoices over the petrol shortage in serbia. no comment
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Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 13:39:56 -0800 From: insomnia <insomnia at EUnet.yu> Subject: Re: media access
hi, tilman, don't get me wrong, please. these days, whenever i can, i watch cnn, sky news and euro news, as well as everybody in yugoslavia who's got cable tv does. however, all i see there are pictures of small groups of albanian refugees taken months ago (on some of these snows, on some the grass is green, so you cannot be quite sure about the season of the year). as far as i've heard (forgive me if i am not informed as much as you are, but i LIVE this war in a shelter and bread lines, and you just LOOK AT a partial media version of it from your couch, at least be fair to admit that) some of the shots claiming to show albanian refugees are actually shots of serb exodus from croatia taken in 1995, when 250,000 serbs were expelled from croatia. i'd like to express my gratitude to all people who sent words of support and love to me and my country. as for those who disagree with my point of view, i'd like to point out that i am telling my feelings and fears which all people would share in a situation like this - definitely not my political views.