Category Archives: The Former Yugoslavia

Herzegovina (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)

Posted on August 7, 2021 by James Thomas Snyder

“Here in Mostar the really adventurous part of our journey began.” HERZEGOVINA, LIKE DALMATIA, is an historical region in the former Yugoslavia, serving no political or administrative purpose beyond its tie to Bosnia as the outline of that state.  West … Continue reading →

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Expedition (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)

Posted on August 2, 2021 by James Thomas Snyder

“There was everywhere the sweet-smelling scrub, and thickets of oleander, and the grey-blue swords of aloes; and on the lower slopes were olive terraces and lines of cypresses, spurting up with a vitality strange to see in what is black … Continue reading →

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Dalmatia (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)

Posted on June 27, 2021 by James Thomas Snyder

“But these people’s culture instructed them exactly how best they might live where they must live.” BY TRAIN REBECCA West and her husband travel from Zagreb to Sušak in Dalmatia.  From there they travel by car and boat to several … Continue reading →

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Croatia (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)

Posted on May 6, 2021 by James Thomas Snyder

“Politics, always politics.  In the middle of the night, when there is a rap on our bedroom door, it is politics.” (Croatia/Zagreb VII) ENDING THE JOURNEY of the previous chapter, Rebecca West and her husband arrive in Zagreb proper. Three … Continue reading →

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Journey (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)

Posted on April 26, 2021 by James Thomas Snyder

“These were exactly like all Aryan Germans I had ever known; and there were sixty millions of them in the middle of Europe.” (Journey) WITH HER HUSBAND Rebecca West travels by train from Salzburg, Austria, to Zagreb, the capital of … Continue reading →

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Prologue (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)

Posted on April 13, 2021 by James Thomas Snyder

“And the death of Elizabeth had shown me the scourge of the world after the war, Luccheni, Fascism, the rule of the dispossessed class that claims its rights and cannot conceive them save in terms of empty violence, of killing, … Continue reading →

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Clever Girl! (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)

Posted on April 5, 2021 by James Thomas Snyder

“He does not so much split his infinitives as disembowel them.” (Rebecca West on Dr. Lionel Tayler, The Clarion, 1913)  CONSIDER THIS INTERACTION recorded by Ian Parker about the late Christopher Hitchens in The New Yorker: And then the young … Continue reading →

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Not too late to seek a newer world (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)

Posted on March 28, 2021 by James Thomas Snyder

“My dear, I know I have inconvenienced you terribly by making you take your holiday now, and I know you did not really want to come to Yugoslavia at all.  But when you get there you will see why it … Continue reading →

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The Bridge on the Neretva (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)

Posted on March 20, 2021 by James Thomas Snyder

“To look at it is good; to stand on it is as good.” (Black Lamb and Grey Falcon) THE COVER OF nearly every edition of Black Lamb and Grey Falcon prominently features the same extraordinary architectural, cultural, and pontine monument … Continue reading →

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Working Titles (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)

Posted on March 12, 2021 by James Thomas Snyder

“I write books to find out about things.” (Paris Review, 1981) FOR THIS PROJECT I have four individual editions of Black Lamb separated in publication by 80 years. More than 25 years ago I started reading the 1994 Penguin Books … Continue reading →

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