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Kuriozitet je znati da neko ko je završio mašinski fakultet u Srbiji  može da postane dekan na fakultetu u Engleskoj, pošto to verovatno ne bi postala u   Beogradu, naravno ne zato što je nekvalifikovana, već upravo obrnuto. Ni ne  pomišljam šta bi Likica radila u Beogradu danas u ovom besmislu. Verovatno bi kao i svi pokušavala da sastavlja kraj sa krajem i da pokaže da se bolje razume u mašinstvo od molera i priučenih majstora. Ovako mora da se muči u Engleskoj, ima svoju kuću, vozi dobar auto,  osim što naravno predaje i upravlja sistemom. Očigledno toliko dobro, da nakon samo godina dana na jednom fakultetu, prelazi na mesto dekana na drugom.  Naše poznanstvo počelo je ponovnim rađanjem demokratije u Srbiji, kada smo imali oboje velika očekivanja,  a nastavilo se druženjem bar jednom godišnje praćenjem osipanja svega što je bilo dobro za ovih skoro trideset godina. Slično gledamo i na Engleze, verovatno zato što smo oboje voleli Borislava Pekića koji je ih je satirično opisao, a kasnije postao jedan od osnivača Demokratske stranke. Pošto znam kako će mnogi reagovati verujem da i Likica, kao i ja delimo Pekićevu misao: „Treba ljubiti zemlju dece svoje, a ne dedova svojih. Jer čast neće zavisiti od toga odakle dolazimo nego kuda idemo.”

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The curiosity is to know that someone who has graduated at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Serbia can become a dean at the faculty in England, since she probably would not have become in Belgrade, of course not because she is unqualified, but just the other way around. I do not even think what Likica would do in Belgrade today in this absurdity. Probably like everyone would try to put an end to the end and try to show that she better understand the Mechanical Engineering of wall painters and untrained masters. Thus, she has to bother in England, she has her own home, she drives a good car and, of course, she is teaching and managing the whole faculty system. It is obviously she is so good, that after only a year at one faculty, she moves to the position of Dean on the other. Our acquaintance began with the re-birth of democracy in Serbia, when we had both great expectations, and continued to socialize at least once a year by following the destruction of everything that was good for these almost thirty years. We look similarly to the Brits, probably because we both loved Borislav Pekić who satirically described them, and later became one of the founders of the Democratic Party. Since I know how many will react, I believe that Likica, as well as I share Pekic’s thought: “It is necessary to love the land of your children, and not of your grandfathers. Because honour will not depend on where we come from, but where we go.”