But that is never clear at any moment in time - whether reality is a dream, or the dream a reality. The students who gathered at the university with red flags fluttering overhead came gladly, but they knew what difficulties they would face if they stayed home. For Czech students the year 1949 marked that interesting transition when a dream is no longer just a dream. Their jubilation was voluntary and yet it was already compulsory as well. He rightly perceived that only that person is truly adult who is master of some clearly defined space, the owner of complete privacy.
Revolutions have no wish to be examined or analyzed, they only yearn to be imbibed by the masses.
For that reason, revolutions are lyrical and in need for poetry. Jaromil has always regarded the future as an awesome mystery. The revolution, however, gave the future an entirely different meaning. He knew all about it from brochures, books, lectures, agitprop speeches. The woman of the future was habitually depicted as a tractor driver.