Petr Melichar

“So we were looking for a typewriter. It was also quite an anabasis. In Prague I found out through a few acquaintances that someone was selling a typewriter. Then I dragged it in my backpack to Havířov. Eventually Lumir got another, so we had more of those machines. And the first numbers were created by rewriting texts on a typewriter. We loaded ten papers with photocopiers into the coil. We did ten copies of the magazine. The tenth copy was still legible. Later, we were already doing it with a roller frame, it was printed over the film. I sometimes bought the membranes in Prague. That's what Franta Stárek advised us to do when we became interested.”

“I was carrying backpacks full of books to Havířov. With my friend from Havířov, Lumír Salzman, and several other people we read it enthusiastically and eagerly. And it was circulating among people. It was still: 'When you finish reading it? It was great, but it was not enough. There were a lot of people hungry for information and reading. We also had to be a little wary of who we lend it to. So we thought we could make a similar magazine too. Lumir came up with the idea that it was nothing, that a typewriter was enough to learn to work with too. So we rocked out brains about it for a while, speculating what it would be about. And we found out that we know a poet who writes without being published, that we know bands with lyrics, and that there are people who can write, but of course it would not get printed.”