V E B A H O O D

Lviv, Ukraine 2003 © Velibor Božović

2010 World Cup has reached the semi-finals stage. It is a good tournament, offering everything that football has to show, and it seems that the best teams are still contenders, which often is not the case.

Pre-tournament heavy favorites are dropping out one after the other (today Argentina, yesterday Brazil,  England much before them, and France and Italy way, way before everybody) and mostly for a simple reason: they are self-obsessed teams forgetting that “In a football match, everything is complicated by the presence of the other team.” – something that Jean-Paul Sartre noticed many, many decades ago.

Memory One, Montreal 2009 © Velibor Božović

Perhaps it is in books where all moments in time co-exist simultaneously?

Reading W. G. Sebald again… “…in the hope, that time will not pass away, has not passed away, that I can turn back and go behind it, and there I shall find everything as it once was, or more precisely I shall find that all moments in time have co-existed simultaneously, in which case none of what history tells us would be true, past events have not yet occured but are waiting to do so at the moment when we think of them…”