Thus a big sign on the window of a bus that is taking me to Zagreb from Livade just under the Motovun hill. Of course, this means “emergency exit” in plain German. Prescient, or what? Just as prescient as the Dutch sign on the window of a bus that took me to the Croatian capital a couple of years ago (“Nooduitgang,” January 30, 2010). German, Dutch, it is all the same to me. An emergency exit in any old language is all I need at the moment.