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Usually quiet Ladonia was a crowded place on Friday the 27th of August. State Secretary Vilks (bottom right) guided the court around Nimis and Arx, followed by the press and an interested public.
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WALKING WITH THE COURT - THE ARTWORK ON THE 27TH OF AUGUST |
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| The main characters in the drama concerning the freedom of Ladonia presented themselves in the foggy morning.On one side the team of the former landowner, consisting of lawyer Holme (we suppose that count Ehrensvaerd had good reasons for not coming in person), on the Ladonian side the lawyer Erik Norman and state secretary Lars Vilks. And the power of the judgement, the judge Lennart Svensaeter. Ladonia also represented by custodian Johan Andersson. And the real power: the media. | ||||
| How was the performance? Let us listen to the impressions given by custodian Johan Andersson: | ||||
| "Last Friday I followed the art-performance "Walking Down". The ladonian shores were filled with reporters from swedish media, also attending the performance. The whole act was embedded in a misty fog (strange days indeed, most peculiar mama). S/S did a guided tour down by the artworks, taking the court as far as to "Omfalos". Nothing really dramatic happened. | ||||
| Notations: | ||||
| * A pretty woman the "secr. of prosecutor or something" | ||||
| * A camera man slipped and fell among the rocks (it wasn't his day) | ||||
| * Got a peek at the sleeping hippopotamus, which I accidentally found at my last visit in Ladonia (spring -97) by Håle Stenar. It actually sleeps just outside the border, dreamweavering! | ||||
| * Omfalos is not totally silent, of course." | ||||
| We observe the fact "Nothing really dramatic happened". In a way the drama was that this event did take place. It seemed as real reality. | ||||
| In the afternoon the trial was held. Lawyer Holme was at times rather upset, threatning the state secretary with prison: "This time it will be the 'spjaell' (i.e. prison)"! He also claimed that this case was a simple one, so simple that a child could understand it. Erik Norman, representing Ladonia, never understood what it was that was that simple. State secretary said that an artist is working in accordance with § 46 in Kant's "Kritik der Urteilskraft". Here one can read that the artist cannot follow any rules. And thus the artist can go beyond existing laws. This is since long accepted and must be tried in each single case. | ||||
| A few days later state secretary met count Ehrensvaerd in TV, the count present through a link to the studio. State secretary said that the count was a part of the artwork, something he obviously didn't like. | ||||
| Probably we are in for a long process which will take several years. It is also a matter of money. Count Ehrensvaerd's foundation is extremely rich and they are now bound to prestige. Being jealous of their prestige will make them continue the fight to the bitter end. They demand 10.000 SEK (1.000 Oertug) and the removal of Nimis, Arx and Omfalos. This is in many ways something positive. They obviously don't know what they are into. They want prestige and we will give them art. Very much art. | ||||
| The media covered the event in an outstanding way and we can just quote Lord Sig Wig, minister of Idleness: | ||||
| "Jeeze, Mr Secretory, | ||||
| You were featured on tv prime time and we just loved it! Mighty good show!! Amusing, entertaining. | ||||
| Impressive. | ||||
| Vive Ladonia," | ||||
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| HORATIUS ATTACKING PARMAN | ||||
| Horatius is certainly back in the cabinet. He was wearing yellow trousers when he this summer visited Ladonia. This time he is attacking minister Parman's speech concerning the threat from the Swedes: | ||||
| John Parman released a verbal flood: | ||||
| >friends, worry not because the grand design of the Ladonian state will >prevail over all enemies. If all fails, we may not have nimis and arx but we >will have a foundation for a revolution against a bereaucratic Sweden. I >cannot say that we will be free, as all of us are so separated by >international borders, however, I can and will say this: Ladonia is in our >hearts, it is in our minds, and with our thoughts and love locked into a >Ladonian Peace; we shall be free. | ||||
| Pump up the Wagner! | ||||
| >It is not up to powerless counts whether >Ladonia will disappear from the maps, it is up to us to know that Ladonia is >with all of us and that each place that we call home is a part of Ladonia, >each napkin we wipe our lips with is a part of Ladonia, and every word we >write and speak of fabled lands and magical dragons binds us in praise of a >land many of us discovered purely by accident. | ||||
| Bathos always was close to pathos. | ||||
| >No, it was not an accident >that led me to Ladonia, it was the belief in an international community where >ideas, plans, and politics ould be shared like breaths inside a crowded room. >No matter how small Ladonia is, it is still the navel of the world, it is >still the home of the nomads. Nomads, who are nothing, if not Ladonian. Let >it be known! to be Ladonian is not to be bound to law or franchise or >opportunity in any land! To be Ladonian is to be a citizen of the world! > >Let the Swede fucks hear this, and make them tremble when they walk on the >soil of the greatest Remony the world has ever seen. | ||||
| If the "Swede fucks" could hear this, they would hardly tremble but laugh. I am myself very much against the *Swedish ways* but blown-up rethoric won't change anything. Actually, it will. It will make us less free. | ||||
| >we know we are free, >show Sweden we are free. God bless us, Queen Yvonne, come to the rescue of >our state and aid the people of this land in its deliverance. To you, my >queen, I commend my spirit. To you, my fellow countrymen, I commend my life >to Ladonia. | ||||
| John Parman should have been born in the age of knight errants. Can anybody | ||||
| lend him a damsel in distress? | ||||
| >Ladon! Free yourself from the garden and fly to our aid, we are free, show >them! Bless us and deliver us in fire. | ||||
| Fire away, Ladon! | ||||
| The freedom John Parman demonstrates is the freedom to look at life through rose-colored glasses. Talk, talk, talk.... We have been talking in Ladonia for a LONG time now. I think we should rename the country. Let's call it | ||||
| TALKONIA. | ||||
| Horatius (minister of Sophistry, Mr Kill-joy) | ||||
| We can observe that Horatius himself is strongly contributing to "TALKONIA". | ||||
| And probably that is what it is all about: words. Many words. The relation between the real thing and talking about the real thing is, I should say 1/100. I guess we work slowly in Ladonia, forming many words in the construction of the world. It seems as if we are getting more like turtles than our media man, minister Horatius... | ||||
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| ENCHANTING CONCERTPICTURES | ||||
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| DECORATED MINISTER | ||||
| Minister of Tennis and Figure Skating, ambassador and countess Madeleine Glover has reported her latest success: | ||||
| "I would like to report that I was summoned to the Hungarian Embassy in Washington, DC and was decorated with an Order of Service by the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Hungary, Dr. Géza Jeszenszky, at a reception on August 20. There were many other Ambassadors and representatives of the US Government present. A great number of them congratulated me on work done for Hungary's NATO membership. Altogether there might have been 250 persons." | ||||
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| JUS PRIMA NOCTIS | ||||
| "My father, Tibor Wessely, the marquis said he would like to get the "jus prima noctis" in his country-side. If it's possible, please write him a letter, because he is very excited about this rule." | ||||
| This letter from Hungary was a case for the cabinet. Tibor was probably delighted to fool around we all the supposed virgins in the country side of Hungary. But the answer to this old rule was given by several of our ministers in the same way. Lord Aslak, minister of propaganda, smmed up the decision: | ||||
| "Regarding "jus prima noctis", there can be only one answer: Naturally noblemen will have the first night with wimen when they're about to get married - if the woman wants to. Thus, we apply the "jus prima noctis" in a somewhat more up-to-dated fashion. And accordingly, a noble woman should have equal rights to enjoy the soon-to-be-married man, if he wants to." | ||||
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| POETRY | ||||
| The festival arranged by the ladonian citizen Avec has started. You can read poems in many different languages, all classics represented, you can vote for the best poem and you can particpate with a poem of your own. http://come.to/avec | ||||
| A poem has been sent to Ladonia from one of our citizens living in Hungary. It is written in a minimalistic style and has much to tell us about our own time: | ||||
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| COW FLYING | ||||
| If you at this moment feel like making a cow flying you can try this here: http://www.mediafarm.no/forsoksgard/kukaster.asp | ||||
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| JAPANESE EDITION | ||||
| The book about Nimis and Arx has been translated and updated in Japanese. This is the first book where Ladonia is presented. We recommende all japanese readers to buy a copy from Primitive Plan Press in Tokyo. | ||||
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| THE PYRAMID MAN | ||||
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| NEW STAMPS | ||||
| Two new stamps available. Our no. 17 and 18. They are in editions of 100, showing Arx and Wotan's tower. 1 Oertug. They can be oredered in Ladonia shop. | ||||
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| HARTMANBORG | ||||
| Our minister of future science James Hartman has founded Hartmanburg. It can | ||||
| be visited and this is specially recommended for our nobels. The Hartmanburg is a rocky part close to the entrance to Nimis. It is filled with heavy rocks and stones and there is a very huge rock that is the rock of the nobility. >From Hartmanburg which is about 100 m x 30 m you can overlook parts of Nimis and the sea. | ||||
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| SOCCER | ||||
| Ladonia Cup was played for the fourth year. Brain minister Tiit Mathiesen, who had won the all earlier cups, lost this time. New master is Lars Vilks, state secretary. He won 1-6, 6-5, 1-0. | ||||
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| AT THE END OF THE DAY A word from our Minister of Health |
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| Today I was going to write something really deep, but then I had dinner, and wine, and decided I am not that divine yet as to be able to get away with the very deapths of existence enigmas. The wine is my ersatz for God, the dinner for Energy. Now, energy probably doesn't exist at all, I believe E=mcxc is the biggest of all the modern illusions (among others such as "everybody has free will", everybody has "one and only one I", everybody can do, &c. - &c. - &c. - &c. - &c. - &c. yes, I am a bit drunk, but I love you all!!) So where was I? Yes, energy. Energy. What is it? - - Do you know?? I don't. It's "something... potential", a kind of currency of physics, also a concept of "everything" among the New Age devotees. And you cannot eat money. Well, you can (example of intellectual wiseacring - leading to "intellectual hell"). | ||||
| Ladonians are generally too smart to be subject of falling down into intellectual hell after death - otherwise... we wouldn't have had such an excellent condition of health in Ladonia, we would have had innumerable hospitals filled to their brims with suffering people, they would have been everywhere, in the regular wards, in the day lounges, the corridors, the washing rooms, maybe even their feet would have pointed out of the windows, so crowded would have been our hospitals - exactly like in the so called "civilized world", as Sweden and other countries beyond our borders... but that is not the case!! Every time I check our House of Health, or rather the site of it, since during a fierce winter storm 1997, Providence washed it all out into the sea... every time, the site is empty, nobody needs medical counsellung. So Brother and Sister! Let's drink to that!! Nazz...drovvjje!!! (or whatever they say in St. Petersbourg - in Srbska, and Hrvatska and Bosnia, and until recently, in Kosovo, it's "Zivali"). A very good Swedish film maker is Ingmar Bergman. | ||||
| Today... I went to Swedish Radiology Days in Malmö, generally known as "boasting city". Well, once in my youth I wrote an article, scientific according to my inspiration & endeavours, offering a great new insight, maybe even a systems change, my Life Inspiration it was, but I was ridiculed by the referees. So now I was very curious what could laudable science look like. Well, it was produced by apparently sexually mature men and women looking like preteen boys and girls, and about what was already obvious within the old paradigm. This is how Sweden fosters her scientists. And, now I am drunk - - pleashe shforgivfe mee... Probably!! the same in the rest of the... Wforld. Certainly a challenge... for the gifted. Not that I... am very gifted, but !! everyone could be! If only they were free - prove me wrong and I'll eat my hat. | ||||
| I couldn't stand it - oh yes, one thing amused me, there exists a Swedish bon-ton radiologist who is very mad at me, and avoids looking in my direction until I utter the heavy word: "Hello" - whereby a whole universe is revealed in that brotrher's face in that split second - sure, enemies are a gift of God, they show you who you are, and they are the only ones, at the end of the day, who really helped you overcome your own faults standing in the way of your own salvation... Thus, hereby, You Whom I Mean, I thank thee, and bow down to thee, and with all my heart, quite earnestly. | ||||
| Well, at the lunch break I fled downtown and run into a Brass Quintet from St. Peretsbourg. They were great, five men, five different bugles of all sizes, everybody had various most typical Russian - Central Asian - Estonian physical builds - and since I am an Estonian I loved them all the more for that - but they played (graduates from Rimsky Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersbourg and founded 1997 as "Kronverk") - they played remerkably well, and tunes everybody could relate to, and enjoy, and then there it was, the greatest truth so far I have come accross in my mind - communication without words reveals the essence of the world, and man is a two ways gate between numbers and not-numbers, and in the world of not-numbers miracles happen, but only when you have a natural attitude of innocent trust - - - so that's why we pray to the higher forces with the words "Our Father", that' s the significance ot that. Dixit Minister of Health - - Nzzzdrvvv...je !! - - - All Ye Ladonians and All Other Peoples of the World! E. von Bock. |
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