Život v kalné vodě aneb Bahno, kam se podíváš

The third part of the trilogy is the longest because it covers the 1970s and 1980s. Although it is still set in the Czech basin, it also takes the reader abroad, where, in addition to volcanoes and sand dunes, it also offers the peculiar environment of the Bolshevik embassies and commercial embassies of the time. It will also introduce you to the fate of the Zlatý Kopec farm, which was first inhabited by an underground commune and then by the Zmar agricultural cooperative. The last part covers the declining period of (ab)normalization and ends with the November coup, when, after forty-one unbelievable years, it finally snapped.

Mydlík alias RNDr Miroslav Krůta CSc was born in Prague in 1943. His childhood was strongly influenced by the fact that both his parents were scouts and he himself was a member of a scout troop surviving under the wings of Svazarm from the age of nine. After graduating from high school, he studied geology with a specialization in paleontology. After graduation, he remained at the faculty as an assistant and after ten years he moved to the Geological Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, where he studied Paleozoic ostracods and remained until his retirement. He also participated in the Elborz Zagros 1969 and Cotopaxi 1972 volcanological expeditions and in geological mapping in the Libyan Sahara. In retirement, he translated a number of books from English and organized courses of the Tai Chi Chuan school of Thomas Nowakowski at his farm Zlatý Kopec near Čakovice.