Friday, November 10 - The second week of Government Milojko Spajić is passing, but my joy does not abate. Every day, in every respect, her decisions become more and more fun...
At such a speed that soon they will entertain us with misery...
And the second session started quite cheerfully, with the dismissal of all state secretaries, although replacements have not yet been found for all of them...
And ended even more cheerfully, with the implementation of the legal acquis of the European Union, with a special emphasis on the fight against corruption and abuse of power...
Since the prime minister promptly banned the TV broadcast, I have reasonable doubts that the factual description of that fight on the ground remained unavailable to the wider public...
For this occasion, a smaller part of the transcript will suffice:
Inspector: These two that you caught with a fish, without a fish, the other night... I received so many interventions for them, and it turned out that the handyman who works at my house is his aunt's brother...
Supervisor: I don't know who that is...
Inspector: He is renovating my bathroom, so I don't know my life. Is it possible for me to write them a notice that if they are caught with the others next time, I will punish them for all three violations?
Supervisor: Dragana, I don't interfere in your business...
Inspector: I never in my life... I am not this in my life, do you understand? And what does he need now, for him to throw a rag in the sewer, to plug it, oh my goodness, to entertain me if I punish his relative...
Supervisor: What are they going to do to me then, if they're going to throw a rag at you, I put my face to death...
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Saturday, November 11 - The recording was recently submitted to the prosecution, the investigation has not yet been completed.
The appointment of the inspector is...
But then why does the relevant minister, Vladimir Joković, claim that she has not been appointed yet, that the government "only gave its consent to the proposal"...
Only he knows that, it could be that some brother of the master threatened him with a rag...
On the website https://www.gov.me, however, there is no indication that the sewers have been blocked...
In a very legible outpouring of naming, under point three, it is written:
- The Government passed a Decision on the appointment of Dragana Kandić-Perović as Chief Inspector for Agriculture, Wine and Fisheries in the Department for Inspection Supervision, Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management...
Clearly, it couldn't be clearer... Everything except the unprovoked capital "R" and the word "secretary" where it doesn't belong...
So what happened to the former government, too, by inserting a bachelor's degree where it didn't belong?
Yes, except that typo then set social media on fire...
This time, without Vuk Vujisić and a few comrades, almost all the parties were humiliated, without almost all the stars of the grant, but also numerous non-governmental organizations...
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Sunday, November 12 - The posthumous awarding of the Njegoš Award to Dubravka Ugrešić went without objection.
And that's good, but not because of the reputation of the author, because she gained it a long time ago, but because of the reputation of the award, which was destroyed just as long ago...
How much, how and why - explained brilliantly by Balša in Art's series, whose third installment I can't wait for...
What, unfortunately, I will not wait for is the correction of the injustice towards the deceased Montenegrin writers Radovan Zogović, Jevrem Brković, Ranko Jovović, Momir M. Marković and Biljana Jovanović.
There are many differences in their "singing and thinking", but stronger than that was what united them - the rebellion of the mind and a life dedicated to freedom...
The freedom of others, it goes without saying, because the five of them were free people even in the years of the greatest restrictions.
The order of their names here was determined by the baptism certificate, and their contemporaries in power determined that they would not receive Njegoš's award during their lifetime.
And to every government from 1945 to 2020, no matter how different they were, freelance writers were just cogs planted in the wheels of (r)evolution...
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Monday, November 13 - That this injustice can be corrected - is made possible by the Law on Awards 2019.
Which legalized this possibility due to the petition of Montenegrin intellectuals to award the Njegoš award to Radovan Zogović in 2017...
We cannot know whether this Jury would correct the injustice in 2023 because it was not even given the chance...
Not to be corrected - they were chosen by the selectors who did use the legal possibility and proposed three deceased, but none from Montenegro...
For Radovan Zogović and Biljana Jovanović, the years of death were a hindrance - 1986 and 1996?
They are not, because in the Law it is regulated by only one sentence:
- Exceptionally, when there are particularly significant reasons for this, the prize can be awarded posthumously - this is how the fourth paragraph of the third article reads.
Neither there nor anywhere else is the time limit of that mortality mentioned.
But even if it exists, and if it refers to the four previous years, Jevrem Brković, Ranko Jovović and Momir M. Marković also fulfilled that formal condition...
They fulfilled all the others for more than half a century...
Why the selectors overlooked them - I don't know.
But I know who was not allowed to overlook them - the Montenegrin PEN Center, the Montenegrin Society of Independent Writers and the Dukljan Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Because those organizations, and many of their members, wouldn't exist if it weren't for Jevrem Brković and Momir M. Marković...
Nor would Montenegrinism, whatever PEN or CDNK or DANU mean by that, be threatened if - along with its two founders - they also supported Ranko Jovović...
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Tuesday, November 14 - I don't celebrate holidays, there is too much death in their foundations, but I love the Thirteenth of July and the Eighth of March.
Because freedom is based on them and because they encourage - or at least remember - the rebellion of the mind as a prerequisite for freedom...
New Years hasn't come to me since the nineties, Easter and Christmas never did...
I have no reason to celebrate Independence Day because my homeland - despite secession from the DPS - is still dependent on the guardian...
That's why this day of Njegos will remain in my memory due to the EU's decision not to treat us as candidates in the future, but as - student champions...
With the difference that from the next semester, whenever we do our homework for an A, they will not only give us a certificate - a progress report - but will also put a few euros in our pockets.
Coined or paper, it will depend on the importance of the subject and the difficulty of the task...
So much for today's holiday...
And about Njegoš? Well, I have nothing to say about him...
Because, unlike the majority of publicly available readers of Gorski Vienci and Luča Mikrokosma, I am aware of how much - I don't know.
And decent enough to - especially on Njegoš's day - keep my ignorance to myself...
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Wednesday, November 15 - "I was born in 1960 and died in 1993", Žarko Laušević made his death public five years ago in a confession to journalists...
He confessed to himself for three decades and made his life public. In four books, more precisely - in four volumes of one book...
And he was honest with the readers, until the end...
Towards himself, endlessly cruel...
One of my friends said today that he died of lung cancer...
It was not, because the reading of the scanner and magnetic resonance showed only metastasis.
And I read his diaries from prison...
And I know that his primary cancer is called - Montenegro...
And not only his, there is a long list of those who died with that diagnosis.
Starting with Radovan Zogović, who, among other things, was deprived of the right to receive an award with the name of the only Montenegrin poet who surpassed him...
To Žarko Laušević, who was denied the right to justice, so he had to look for it in near and far abroad...
If she had already held on to them like that for life, it would be her turn to see them off in the same way...
By keeping silent...
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