Poetic Obituaries: "Undoubtedly. That's why he started

to be nicknamed 'Magor', which could be translated as Loony--and I think it would fit. He always behaved in a rather irrational way. Our rational mind tells us, 'Stop here, be more cautious!' And he never did! He behaved in the so-called normalization years as if there had not been any normalization. He always wanted to behave as a free human being and he paid dearly for it, of course. That's why we admired him, because, had it not been for his courage, the whole of the movement would probably have collapsed much earlier."

from Radio Prague: The prison poet: remembering Ivan Martin Jirous

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