Tom Beckett, who is most graciously interviewing me, writes in:

Hi Nada,

In Charles Simic’s most recent collection of essays (_The Metaphysician in the Dark_) he quotes this poem by Serbian poet Vasko Popa:

Last News of the Little Box

The little box with the whole world inside

Fell in love with herself

And conceived inside herself

Another little box

The little box’s little box

Fell in love with herself too

And conceived inside herself

Another little box

And so on ad infinitum

The little box’s whole world

Should be somewhere

Inside the little box’s last box

None of the little boxes

In the little box in love with herself

Is the last one

Try finding the world now

I thought the poem interesting both in terms of our present junction in the interview and your recent blogs about narcissism.