Thursday, November 05, 2020

Beers & Books XXVII

Alright, a beer and a film.

Alfred Wainwright (17 January 1907 – 20 January 1991)

The Englishman who Went up a Hill and Came down a Mountain

Miserable fools

Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.

Arthur Schopenhauer
(22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860

Tuesday, November 03, 2020

Beers & Books XXVI

Morale in times of globalisation
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I think in English the title is
The Art of the Impossible

Václav Havel (5 October 1936 – 18 December 2011)

Sunday, November 01, 2020

Carmen Amaya



Carmen Amaya ( 1 November 1913 – 19 November 1963)

Magic of Fandango



Carmen Amaya ( 1 November 1913 – 19 November 1963)

Sabicas (16 March 1912 – 14 April 1990)

Fandango

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Eyes walk

Autumn colours

on the golf course
in the wood
on its skirts
and everywhere
my eyes were walking.

 

Friday, October 23, 2020

Beers & Books XXIII

The Grammar of Fantasy
The art of imagining stories


Gianni Roderi (23 October 1920 - 14 April 1980)

Beers & Books XXII

Monsieur Nicolas;
Or, The Human Heart Unveiled:
The Intimate Memoirs of Restif de la Bretonne


Rétif de la Bretonne (23 October 1734 – 3 February 1806)

 

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Beers & Books XX

 

King Goshawk and the Birds
 
Eimar O'Duffy
(29 September 1893 – 21 March 1935)