In long-standing uncertainty, most species either give up or significantly reduce sexual activity. A comparative study of the level of sexualization in images from the second half of the 20th century and this decade’s iconosphere might be a clear proof of a change as uncomfortably noticeable (and lacking in sex appeal) as global warming. In both cases, nobody wants it.
Yet, we must go to the elections.
In a week, the landscape will begin to lose such picturesque, significant, emotion- and association-stirring surnames. Observing how chance or necessity places candidates side by side, it’s hard to resist the thought that only Franciszek Bohomolec knew how to turn such coincidences into an instructive comedy, for the common good and the improvement of the Republic. This somewhat forgotten author unhesitatingly exploited the power of his characters’ surnames. When, in “Marriage from the Calendar”, first staged in 1766 at the National Theatre in Warsaw, the nobleman Staruszkiewicz decides to marry off his daughter Eliza to another, hereditary nobleman Marnotrawski, it’s clear he’s making a mistake. His sister, Mrs. Bywalska, tells him so on stage, but the nobleman gave his word. Thus, to save the young lady from an unloved suitor, the play ends with scuffles over debts and the fortunate intervention of a native German, Ernest, an officer in the Polish army, who loves Eliza reciprocally. Back in the turbulent Stanisław era, the audience reportedly applauded; today, it might depend on political sympathies. However, there is progress in politics.
