Saturday, June 25, 2022

Beers & Books CCXXVIII – E.T.A. Hoffmann

There is nothing
more marvellous or madder
than real life.

E.T.A. Hoffmann (24 January 1776 – 25 June 1822)

The Sandman

Mademoiselle de Scuderi

6 comments:

  1. Definitely. And continuing the alliterative theme, there is nothing weirder or more wonderful (and sometimes woeful) than real life either.

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  2. Beers and books sounds good to me.

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    1. Ah, welcome to Omnium, Bill.
      What beers, what books? ;-) I'd (really) like to know.

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    1. And if only it were to understand why Edgar Allan Poe got influenced by him.

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