One of Jana's many remarkable qualities was her precognition, which sometimes bordered on clairvoyance. It is still a mystery to me where she got her information about things that were yet to happen. It can not have had anything to do with the mind. This is best...
Fatal Daisies
Fatal daisies II: Jan Šmarda
PROLOGUE When we became a couple in love, we were constantly thinking about how we could make each other happy or make a surprise. One Sunday evening, for example, I was waiting for Jana at the train station when she returned from her parents' house in Lanskroun. I...
Fatal Daisies I: Jan Šmarda
Jana and I met for the first time at the beginning of the fall semester of 1979, when we both began studying molecular biology at the Faculty of Science at the then J.E. Purkyne University in Brno, Czech Republic. We were both 18 years old. We didn't immediately fall...