I don’t put much of my private social life into this site, but in this case “a picture is worth a thousand words.” I have been friends with Filip Marek for a quarter of a century. Despite our living on different continents, we have managed to see each other fairly often — most recently in Spain. We first came to know each other through Filip’s involvement in the Czech Revolution, and the friendship was subsequently built up from a series of shared adventures (in places as disparate as Crete and the shores of the Arctic Ocean) and shared intellectual interests. We make a rather Cervantean team. I am a little man, while Filip is a tall, muscular giant. This picture, recently taken* in the sort of place Filip can often be found, is so evocative that I could not resist putting it up here.
*Filip has just informed me that it was taken two days ago, in Switzerland
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