Beers & Books XXV

 

The Romantic Dogs

Roberto Bolaño (28 April 1953 – 15 July 2003)

Beers & Books XXIV

Kafka on the Shore

Haruki Murakami *12 January 1949

Eyes walk

Autumn colours

on the golf course

in the wood

on its skirts

and everywhere

my eyes were walking.

 

On the Road

. . .

 

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)

 

Beers & Books XXI

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera *1 April 1929

Beers & Books XX

 

King Goshawk and the Birds

 
Eimar O'Duffy (29 September 1893 – 21 March 1935)

Beers & Books XIX

The Collector of Worlds

Alfred Wainwright (17 January 1907 – 20 January 1991)

Ilija Trojanow * 23 August 1965

Richard Francis Burton (19 March 1821 – 20 October 1890)

On the Wire

Holding the line.

 

Beers & Books XVIII

Friedhofserde

Máirtín Ó Cadhain (*1906 – 18. Oktober 1970)

Beers & Books XVII

 

Good stuff, both the books and the beer.

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

Beers & Books XVI

Los santos inocentes

Miguel Delibes (17 October 1920 – 12 March 2010)

Friday is Skyday

17:22

 

John Millington Synge – The Playboy of the Western World

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

Cyril Cusack (26 November 1910 – 7 October 1993)

Getting autumnal

Everything harvested
but the kale and lots of physalis.

Flowers start withering,

and trees changing their colours.

 

Beers & Books XV

American Whisky

 Andrzej Szczypiorski (3 February 1928 – 16 May 2000)

Today 528 years ago

The first American who discovered Columbus

made a terrible discovery.

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

Mo(o)nday

21:59

 

Beers & Books XIV

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

 Dörte Hansen * 1964

Klaus Störtebeker (1360 – 1401)

Störtebeker Braumanufaktur

Beers & Books XIII

The Time of the Doves

Mercè Rodoreda (10 October 1908 – 13 April 1983)

Friday is Skyday

18:28

18:29

18:33

18:34

 

To compare with nowadays

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

Beers & Books XII

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

Patrick McGinley *1937

Chimneys

For a moment
ephemerality
came to my mind.

 

Pride of Creation

Around the world, hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children with mental health conditions have been shackled, chained or locked in confined spaces, at least once in their lives.

Many are held in overcrowded, filthy rooms, sheds, cages, or animal shelters and are forced to eat, sleep, urinate, and defecate in the same tiny area.

 Break the Chains!

Beers & Books XII – Václav Havel

“Man is not
an omnipotent master of the universe,
allowed to do with impunity
whatever he thinks,
or whatever suits him at the moment.
The world we live in is made
of an immensely complex and mysterious tissue
about which we know very little
and which we must treat with utmost humility.”

Václav Havel (5 October 1936 – 18 December 2011)

Beers & Books XI

Although it is most unlikely they do exist,
to all those who happen to not being
in possession of the master's complete œvre:
Saddle your ponies, folks, and hurry up.
The friendly, most well-educated
and -sorted bookseller just round the corner
will be happy to fill the gaps of your education
and in your bookshelf.

Flann O'Brien (5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966)

Beers & Books X

 

The Star Diaries

Stanislaw Lem (12 September 1921 – 27 March 2006) 

Saturday Night Music

Vladimir Horovitz (1 October 1903 – 5 November 1989)

Saturday Night Music – Vladimir Horovitz

Vladimir Horovitz (1. October 1903 – 5 November 1989)

Martha Argerich * 5 June 1941

Friday is Skyday

Autumn on the fields
and in the air.

 

Beers & Books IX

In the Shape of a Boar

Lawrence Norfolk * 1 October 1963