I Don’t Know

in London. How am I supposed to make sense of Citizen Smith, and what is Sykes and a...? Spatz – what is that?

I haven’t the foggiest idea. The Beat of London – how should I know what that is? Wouldn’t know. And I’m sorry, did you say ‘Dear Mother...Love Albert’?

I don’t know what people mean by ‘ITV sitcoms’. What the shit is Take My Wife?

I’ve never heard of 20th-century German people. And who is Walter Wreszinski or Heinrich Rubens?

Concerning Humboldt University of Berlin alumni, I am fully ignorant. I don’t know who Margarete Bieber or Fritz Fischer was.

I don’t know the first thing about German Jews. Emanuel Lasker – who was that? I don’t have any idea who Aryeh Leo Olitzki was. Couldn’t say. I have no clue who Pedro Friedeberg or Ignaz Maybaum is.

I’m not well-versed in University of Wrocław faculty.

Who is this Edward Marczewski guy?

I’m not conversant with Polish mathematicians. Karol Życzkowski – doesn’t ring a bell.

I also haven’t the foggiest notion what Polish physicists are about. Who the shit is Witold Nazarewicz?

I don’t know about People from Warsaw. What’s up with Agnieszka Holland, Kate Simon, Henryk Hilarowicz or Wiktor Grodecki?

I definitely don’t know any Recipients of the Gold Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis. Who the fuck is Ryszard Kapuściński? Am I supposed to know Jerzy Janicki, Tomasz Merta, Rudolf Buchbinder or Adam Hanuszkiewicz? I’m clueless about that.

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