Beers & Books CCV – John Montague

An Occasion of Sin
(short stories)

John Montague (28 February 1929 − 10 December 2016)

Put in Highest Alert!!

 Omnium puts its vocabulary on highest alert.

Beers & Books CCIV – Irwin Shaw

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Irwin Shaw (27 February 1913 – 26 May 1984)

Beers & Books CCIII – Michel Houellebecq

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Michel Houellebecq *26 February 1956

Beers & Books CCII – Victor Hugo

Between the government which does evil
and the people who accept it
- there is a certain shameful solidarity.
*
The great acts of love are done by those
who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.

Victor Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885)

Friday is Skyday

. . .

Beers & Books CCI – Anaïs Nin

It takes courage to push yourself
to places you have never been before...
to test your limits... to break through barriers.

Anaïs Nin (February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977)

Monochrome Monday

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Beers & Books CC – Salvatore Niffoi

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Salvatore Niffoi * 19 February 1950

Friday is Skyday

 Sunset while storm begins.

Moving the focus but a tiny bit northwards.

Monochrome Monday

. . .

 

Saturday Night Music – Franz Schubert

Franz Schubert (31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828

Beers & Books CXCVIX – J.M.Coetzee

We must cultivate, all of us,
a certain ignorance, a certain blindness,
or society will not be tolerable.
*
I am not the we of anyone.

J.M. Coetzee * 9 Februar 1940

Beers & Books CXCVIII – Sebastião Salgado

In GENESIS,
my camera allowed nature to speak to me.
And it was my privilege to listen.

Sebastião Salgado *8 February 1944

Beers & Books CXCVII – Kate Chopin

The artist must possess a courageous soul
that dares and defies.

 

Kate Chopin (8 February 1850 – 22 August 1904)

Majority of US-Republicans obviously fascistoid, to put it politely

I do have to learn a vast majority of US Republicans have officially reprimanded two internal "T-critics"- (the very idiots complete name has not and will never be mentioned here) and at the same time appropriated the very idiot's reinterpretation of the events at the so-called Storming of the Capitol.

"Justification": Being the only Republicans on the investigative committee on the so-called storming of the Capitol Cheney and Kinzinger (the very idiot's internal critics) are part of a "Democrat-led persecution [sic] of ordinary citizens [sic] who have engaged in legitimate political discourse [sic]", the resolution says.

In other words: Anyone killing someone in "God's own country" is but engaging in legitimate social discourse.

Conclusion: The majority of those "US-lawmakers" calling themselves republicans are fascists or at least fascistoid, to put it politely.

PS: US-Democrats just happen to look a tiny bit less evil.

PPS: As Hamlet might put it nowadays: "There is something rotten in the US of A."

Saturday Night Music – Renata Tebaldi

Renata Tebaldi (1 February 1922 – 19 December 2004)

Beers & Books CXCVI – Paul Auster

The New York Trilogy
*
The world is so unpredictable.
Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly.
We want to feel we are in control of our own existence.
In some ways we are, in some ways we're not.
We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

Paul Auster * 3 February 1947

140 Years of Joyce

Joyce, 1922,
photo taken by Man Ray.

James Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941)

Per il centenario

Renata Tebaldi (1 February 1922 – 19 December 2004)