Miroslav Seidl

“And the third thing I loved were forests and mountains. Basically, after I ended all of that, I settled in that village, Kovářská, below the Klínovec mountain, and there I spent every day in the forest. The forest was a hundred metres from my house and let me tell you that it doesn’t get better than that. Imagine sitting in the forest, eating a snack, and suddenly a tit lands on your arm and eats from your hand. That would never happen in here. Or you notice a badger watching you. Then they were trying to get me to become the local gamekeeper, but, well, I refused because once you look a deer or a doe in the eyes, I don't know who could feel like murdering it, certainly not me.”

“Packing the church into carts, that was fastidious work. All the walls had to be undercut and put onto cartwheels that would, using hydraulics, it had these giant cylinders, lift them up. We controlled the carts using this computer that would send an impulse every thirty seconds with either a positive or a negative signal. The negative one meant that there was a decrease, the positive one meant that there was too much pressure. This was combined to create a sort of an average in order to prevent the church from falling apart. Any cracks in the church were monitored using these resistance transmitters, if the crack was getting bigger the whole thing would be stopped immediately.”