The Business Journal séance with Marszałek Józef Piłsudski

"I am sorry I am late for this appointment. I must blame Ataturk. He's always going on about his battles. And you know, the problem is that here we are condemned to all eternity to listen to him." Few now alive have heard such Polish. It is old, sticky with the centuries, thick with Slavic ancestry and long, slow vowels. The Old Polish of the sweeping lands of the north, blasted by the Arctic mistrals, roasted in the heat of summer.