Andrzej Stasiuk on Poland's melancholy

"My country is governed by twins. Each day my country becomes more ambiguous and melancholic," writes Polish author Andrzej Stasiuk on the subject of Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski. "At times they look like tired, old babies. This surely conceals a deeper truth, the hidden meaning of democracy. My country has chosen the best representatives it could have, because my people are tired, exhausted – they remind me of exhausted children. This weariness, usually a weakness of old age, is striking us in our youth, in our very cradles. Even before we've learned to walk we feel as exhausted as after a long march. Locked in the nursery, we breathe the air of the old people's home. And there can be no better actors for this national drama than the tired, troubled twins, with their round faces. It could well be that the Polish nation has instinctively elected its own flesh and blood."

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