Omnium

Saturday, October 17, 2020

Good stuff, both the books and the beer.

George Mackay Brown (17 October 1921 – 13 April 1996)

Los santos inocentes

Miguel Delibes (17 October 1920 – 12 March 2010)

17:22

John Millington Synge (16 October 1871 – 24 March 1909)

Cyril Cusack (26 November 1910 – 7 October 1993)

Everything harvested
but the kale and lots of physalis.

Flowers start withering,

and trees changing their colours.

American Whisky

Andrzej Szczypiorski (3 February 1928 – 16 May 2000)

The first American who discovered Columbus
made a terrible discovery.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1 July 1742 – 24 February 1799)

21:59

Störtebeker beers are good,
the book is worth a translation.

Mercè Rodoreda (10 October 1908 – 13 April 1983)

18:28

18:29

18:33

18:34

Ernesto "Che" Guevara (14 June 1928 – 9 October 1967)

When published in 1978,
according to the Donegal Democrat
the book was "a shocking libel
on the people of Donegal".