![]() ![]() More complicated and less visually exotic than the Middle East, the Balkans are unsuited to the reductions of the television camera. ![]() The Balkans are a region of pure memory: a Bosch-like tapestry of interlocking ethnic rivalries where medieval and modern history thread into each other. It becomes just another lifeless fact that can never convey how people have come to think and behave as they do. Made to fit inside the narrow strictures of a television sound bite or a newspaper column, it loses all meaning. HISTORY, like hate, is the product of memory, and memory is composed of unforgettable detail - sights, smells, sounds, exalted emotions, grim statistics and cruel ironies. ![]()
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