From: jds@rademacher.math.upenn.edu (Jim Stasheff)
the unity of the world - ironic coming from a Bosnian Serb
I am afraid it's worse than that. In Greece, the irony used to be the essence of the tragedy: the distance which allows public to watch the bloody clashes of the antagonists, resulting in death and the unity. In Bosnia, "the tragedy repeats itself" as the reality (not "as a farce", as the quotation would go) --- stripped of the irony. Instead of heroic katarsis, there is this fascist "clensing" of the helpless. And there is no deus ex machina. I am sorry, I am obvously saying what doesn't belong here, talking to suppress thoughts perhaps, but there is no irony. Dusko ==============================================================================