...I was more than just involved, I could boast that I was, also formally and officially, almost at the top, albeit a rather round top of a newly-emerged Slovenian state, but still; at that time we were all in history, in fact we were history itself, each in their own place, each wholly where he or she seemed to himself or herself or to others either indispensable or just happened to be there, by pure chance. We were all a solid whole without cracks, so that we amazed ourselves; and the world, too, looked upon us with respect, for we were truly greater than ourselves ...

(Excerpt from the autobiographical novel "Memory as a Story")