It is said that writers are people who, as children, did not receive sufficient rejection either from adults or peers and so are compelled to seek it relentlessly in later life. Two zillion books a year are published, of which top one hundred are given the Big Rush, and all the rest tend to drown without a trace ... However, Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
Why do we write about the most painful experiences in our life? Are we wallowing in the misery? No. Writing helps expunge our grief and lets us heal.
We hear a lot these days about publishing becoming more and more risk-averse, the bean-counters taking over, and so on .... This is of course a massive generalisation and there are some great things coming out both here and overseas on a regular basis - perhaps the larger problem is our excessively concentrated media world, which narrows our chances of learning about new and exciting work!
Yet Jozef Imrich has written the War and Peace of escapes. It lends new meaning to the word 'harrowing' and one sometimes shudders to read it. But deep down, beneath all the layers and the masks, there lives something unconquerable in Jozef's hurt spirit...
My Stories
The Drowned & The Saved: If It Were All So Simple Submitted on January 14, 2006 - 10:19 | 808 reads
Zest for Life: You Are Different. So is Cold River Submitted on September 17, 2005 - 01:34 | 1132 reads
D Dom: Miles from Dom (Home) Wind #4 Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 05:51 | 1218 reads
E Raw Emotions Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 05:52 | 803 reads
B To Be Or Not to be in Vienna Wind #2 Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 05:51 | 823 reads
C Cities of Wonder Wind #3 Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 05:51 | 1033 reads
A World Apart - Vienna Wind # 1 Submitted on September 13, 2004 - 05:51 | 868 reads
Wisdom of Pastor Martin Niem?ller Submitted on October 3, 2004 - 09:41 | 977 reads
Prague's Second Spring Submitted on September 29, 2004 - 04:17 | 1911 reads
Memories of London Submitted on September 12, 2004 - 08:20 | 1403 reads
Chamillova's Tatranka Submitted on September 12, 2004 - 08:00 | 1337 reads
ABCTales a spirit of e-ntree Submitted on September 12, 2004 - 07:10 | 689 reads
Strictly Iron Curtain Submitted on September 29, 2004 - 03:24 | 1046 reads
Nothing Less than Victory Submitted on September 12, 2004 - 11:11 | 728 reads
Humanity Lessons in the Army Submitted on September 12, 2004 - 07:59 | 946 reads
FUNERAL OF YOUTH Submitted on September 12, 2004 - 06:45 | 1684 reads
GRAVE INVASION Submitted on September 12, 2004 - 07:10 | 991 reads
DAILY BREAD Submitted on September 12, 2004 - 06:41 | 1420 reads
EAST SIDE STORY: Chapter 2 Submitted on September 12, 2004 - 06:41 | 246 reads
Before and After Submitted on September 12, 2004 - 06:40 | 247 reads
CHildhoOD CHaptER Submitted on September 12, 2004 - 06:41 | 948 reads
Kangaroo a.k.a. Klokan: The Kindness of Strangers Submitted on September 15, 2004 - 05:42 | 7497 reads