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The driver, who until then was playing loud folk music, noticed the "Balkan" and demanded to know if he was so primitive at home that he would clean the window with the curtain. The young man quickly blushed and excused himself. The "Central European" would have deemed that now the driver's anger would have been assuaged, but that was not the case. The driver immediately started swearing: "jebo te bog!, zdaj se boš pa še opravičeval!" ("God'll fuck you! Now you'll really be sorry!") A bible of swear words artists The mystery remains: why do Serbs have a artists whole artists Bible of swear words, while other cultures use only ten or so basic forms? Their popular, schoolmaster explanation is that those who cannot have freedom seek an illusion of freedom in swearing. According to the neo-Descartians, "I swear, therefore I am!" On the train just before Šid, a Serbian refugee from Osijek told me his life's story.
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