Prologue

”NATIONAL REVIEW” SETTLES THE FIRST DECADE
Ten

According to all traditions, ten is a very important number in the world hierarchy. The perfect number, the return to unity and origin. Completeness and the foundation of all counting. The sum of the first four numbers, from which everything else is derived. The votive pillar (one) and circle around it (zero). You need both hands to show ten. It is also the numerical value of the eternal word, the first letter of the name of God. There are ten names of God and Ten Commandments. Odysseus returned to Ithaca on the tenth year.
This is the first edition of National Review with designation on its cover: Year X.
In the temporary situation that surrounds us, where it appears that temporariness is the only permanent thing, it has become the fashion that as soon as something enters the second or third year of existence, it is being declared a tradition. We will explain the distance travelled to our readers and partners, our loyal companions. Its weight, importance and beauty. They are witnesses of the miracle called National Review and medicinal swimming upstream as much as we are. ”If a man is a gentleman, he knows enough. If he is not a gentleman, then everything he knows detrimental for him.” We repeat this, because we should not forget.
We started the tenth year by marking a centennial of the Battle of Mojkovac, one of the most important battles ever waged by the Serbs. We hung out with the hunters in Dragačevo, consecrated vineyards around Smederevo, repaired clocks on towers in Srem. We made a guide through Savamala, the art district of Belgrade, spoke with the writer Milovan Danojlić, said goodbye to the actor Dragan Nikolić, the old maestro.
Our suitcase is full again. We will share this with you, because have no one closer in the world than you, our readers.