Ivan Roemer

"I used to wear jeans, they had to be worn out, otherwise it was unthinkable. And of course, a denim jacket. When my parents poured acid on them, I had to choose something else. So I found my father's army pants, which I wore, and one brace over my t-shirt - they all could have gone crazy. Add to that my long hair, beard - well, finished. When I came out, the grandmothers were crossing themselves and immediately went to report me to the cops. I only walked about 200 meters before the check came. 'Identification.' But I already had a photo taken with my beard and long hair. I managed it. 'Thank you.' And I went on."

"I've been transcribing books since '81. I used to bind them in coloured paper or something similar. But I still had to wrap it in plastic to hold it together, because, of course, the colored paper peeled off. I supplied the letters with propisot - I had propisot, so it was fine. The first ten books, I did that way. The next twenty or twenty-five I then bound in a bookbinding way."

"I had a girlfriend and we went to Prague. I don't know how many of us were there: a hundred, two hundred at most. From Wenceslas Square, we went down the street to Staromák, where Petr Uhl (more likely Peter Uher) was performing, and they started filming there. Then the cops came from behind, everyone turned around, and suddenly we were in the front row. Then they sprayed us and then dispersed us. That was winter, October, October 28th."

"I transcribed books, lyrics, and then I even started to publish them in some covers. I made a publishing house called Red Riding Hood. I published about thirty titles. That was my free time, and it was usually the reason I got kicked out of an apartment, because typing at night was dangerous for the landlords."