Prague Pictures: Portraits of a City
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The city is hot and smoky, and seems to gasp, as if in distressed relief at having survived the terrible decades, so I fancifully think. It is my first visit since the Velvet Revolution - that journalist's formulation, which I have never heard a Praguer employ, has definitely begun to irritate - and I cannot help but search for signs of change everywhere. I am staying at U Pava ('At the Peacock'), a pleasant little hotel close by the Charles Bridge in Mala Strana. At night from the wide-open win...dow of my room I have an uninterrupted view over the treetops of Vojan Park to the Castle on its hill, glaringly floodlit. I switch off the bedside lamp to get the full effect. The floodlighting is a post-1989 innovation, surely? The communists would have regarded such a show of unashamed consumption of the city's electricity supply as a typical piece of Westernised decadence, and probably they would have been right. Standing at the window in the moth-dusted darkness I am struck by how little like a castle the Castle is, with its long, blank, fortress wall studded with row upon row of tiny square windows and not a turret in sight and the spires of St Vitus's thrusting their witch's fingernails into the sky in what seems a gesture of frozen hysteria.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The city is hot and smoky, and seems to gasp, as if in distressed relief at having survived the terrible decades, so I fancifully think. It is my first visit since the Velvet Revolution - that journalist's formulation, which I have never heard a Praguer employ, has definitely begun to irritate - and I cannot help but search for signs of change everywhere. I am staying at U Pava ('At the Peacock'), a pleasant little hotel close by the Charles Bridge in Mala Strana. At night from the wide-open win...dow of my room I have an uninterrupted view over the treetops of Vojan Park to the Castle on its hill, glaringly floodlit. I switch off the bedside lamp to get the full effect. The floodlighting is a post-1989 innovation, surely? The communists would have regarded such a show of unashamed consumption of the city's electricity supply as a typical piece of Westernised decadence, and probably they would have been right. Standing at the window in the moth-dusted darkness I am struck by how little like a castle the Castle is, with its long, blank, fortress wall studded with row upon row of tiny square windows and not a turret in sight and the spires of St Vitus's thrusting their witch's fingernails into the sky in what seems a gesture of frozen hysteria.
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