I am a geologist. My heart belongs to geology and to all people of good will on this Earth. Even though this introduction begins the account of the trials and tribulations of my life, I actually wrote it last. While writing, from time to time, I kept asking myself some burning questions: Why did I actually decide to write about the most significant events that I encountered in the twentieth century? Why did I decide to write about a man from a small town in eastern Bohemia, which, granted, lies in a part of Europe close to its geographical center,...
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