The writer Janet Malcolm reported in a New Yorker article her return to the Czech Republic after an absence of some 45 years. She had retained a knowledge of her childhood Czech, and expected in her return visit to experience strong emotions as she visited the places of her childhood. This failed to occur, until someone mentioned by chance a place-name in the Czech Republic which also occurs in a Czech nursery rhyme. Then only did she experience the emotional reaction she had been looking for.