It is amazing how much I have suffered over the last four or five years from Slobodan Vugrinec’s harassment. Back in 2008, when his first lawsuit hit me, I could not even imagine the pain I would eventually undergo. The next two lawsuits in 2009 also looked rather manageable back then. But the trial that stretched from 2009 to 2010 really hurt. My boiling emotions gradually turned from him to Motovun to Istria to Croatia as a whole. I started hating the whole lot from the bottom of my heart. Feeling like a powerless victim, I turned against everything in sight. A good psychoanalyst would readily pick up my growing wretchedness from my writings over the period. Everything is there in plain sight. My suffering is palpable. And it all starts from one man deeply entrenched in a political system bent on capitalizing on the last boom, which ended in a spectacular bust precisely when I got the first lawsuit in the mail. As always, I will be my own psychoanalyst, though. Once Vugrinec’s lawsuits are finally behind me, which may well take another couple of years, I will submit all my writings about him to a thorough content analysis. Everything will be laid bare. And my archenemy will shine in all his glory for everyone to see. In plain English, too.

Addendum (October 26, 2016)

As it happened, I could not wait with my promise, and I submitted all my writings about my archenemy to a thorough content analysis a bit more than a year ago (“Content Analysis: Slobodan Vugrinec,” September 22, 2015). But I will go through it once again as soon as I get the final decision from the Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. And I will go through it for the third time several years after the faithful decision, as well. Only then will my suffering be laid bare at long last. Political repression that comes naturally to the former mayor of Motovun, for he was a cadre of the communist regime of former Yugoslavia, will surely have left an indelible mark on my psyche. Including the fear and loathing of everything having to do with the state of Croatia.