Poet and essayist, Yevhen Malaniuk, is remembered as one of Ukrainian nationalism's pre-eminent myth-makers. Exiled after the fall of the short-lived People's Republic to the Soviets, he produced his odes to Ukrainian self-sufficiency as an émigré. Is one nationalism better than another? Maybe in war time… His words here invoke (flatteringly) Nestor as an exiled hero recounting tales of the sibyls of the West and their hollow words. Not a man I'd want to emulate, but an understandable ally now. Luke