Census of Marine Life

There's still much homo insapiens can destroy. Enjoy.

Cover Story 0004 - Ch.9

What We Talk About Love When We Talk About Love

Dreams of dreams
Confusion of the feelings
First love, [last rites]
Days of joy
Erogenous zone
Nights of love and laughter
Kama Sutra
The orgy - an idyll
Little misunderstanding of no importancel

For visitors stumbling upon this site:

Who gave Omnium the impetus
Cover stories: The beginning
What Cover-story 0004 is about
Fancy to join? The Flesh-eating Dragon offers a good introduction

Cover Story 0004 - Ch.8

What We Talk About Love When We Talk About Love

Dreams of dreams
Confusion of the feelings
First love, [last rites]
Days of joy
Erogenous zone
Nights of love and laughter
Kama Sutra
The orgy - an idyll

For visitors stumbling upon this site:

Who gave Omnium the impetus
Cover stories: The beginning
What Cover-story 0004 is about
Fancy to join? The Flesh-eating Dragon offers a good introduction

Cover Story 0004 - Ch.7

What We Talk About Love When We Talk About Love

Confusion of the feelings
Days of joy
Dreams of dreams
First love, [last rites]
Erogenous zone
Nights of love and laughter
Kama Sutra

For visitors stumbling upon this site:

Who gave Omnium the impetus
Cover stories: The beginning
What Cover-story 0004 is about
Fancy to join? The Flesh-eating Dragon offers a good introduction

An August beginning

On the last day of July - thus yesterday -, after lunch sitting on balcony enjoying a mug of coffee, a finger-rolled (sic) fag and a certain chapter in Pessoa's 'Book of Unrest', I got a tiny bit distracted by some flies and butterflies jetting around my head, as if drugged up to their eyeballs like the saying goes about certain US-Airforce-pilots. Thus, I went downstairs, soon got ...

 

to the bottom of the phenomenon and decided ...

to leave the cherries to Seanhenge's Air Force
but allow myself ...

to start August with a plain pleasure.

Cover Story 0004 - Ch.6

What We Talk About Love When We Talk About Love

Confusion of the feelings
Days of joy
Dreams of dreams
First love, [last rites]
Erogenous zone
Nights of love and laughter

For visitors stumbling upon this site:

Who gave Omnium the impetus

Cover stories: The beginning

What Cover-story 0004 is about

Fancy to join? The Flesh-eating Dragon offers a good introduction

Cover Story 0004 - Ch. 5

What We Talk About Love When We Talk About Love

Confusion of the feelings
First love, [last rites]
Days of joy
Erogenous zone*
Nights of love and laughter

For visitors stumbling upon this site:

Who gave Omnium the impetus

The beginning

What Cover-story 0004 is about

Fancy to join? The Flesh-eating Dragon offers a good introduction

Cover Story 0004 - Ch. 4

What We Talk About Love When We Talk About Love

Confusion of the feelings
First love, [last rites]
Days of joy
Nights of love and laughter



For visitors stumbling upon this site:

Who gave Omnium the impetus

The beginning

What Cover-story 0004 is about

Fancy to join? The Flesh-eating Dragon offers a good introduction

Cover Story 0004 - Ch. 1-3

What We Talk About Love When We Talk About Love

Confusion of the feelings
Days of joy
Nights of love and laughter 

These were the first books I put together this afternoon, not knowing that at the end there'd stand a pile of 27 books posing for my camera; 

At that moment an experiment was born: This story will be continued.

For the next couple of weeks each day you will find one chapter added.

This can turn out to be exquisitely boring, perhaps not.

Those who like can see a story developing, not necessarily always straight forward - or rather: straight downwards; sometimes a new chapter will be inserted. Even the title might suddenly change.

However, there's much more that can happen. You might find yourself trying to slip into the author's thoughts. 'Why would he choose this one for chapter 3? I'd insert it between chapter 11 and 12.' And so on, and so on ...

You might try to guess what the next chapter will be about. And when it's been posted you might be disappointed or surprised or amused or ...

What depends me: I am amused; the more as I would not be surprised if I surprised myself and what today I (thought to be) finished at the end will tell completely another story. Protagonists sometimes can be very idiosyncretic, out of the blue mutiny and board their master's command bridge. :)

Apart from such imponderables, presently there's but one open question: How to avoid repeating the idea behind this experiment for random first time visitors, again and again?

By setting three links I suppose:
One to the beginning; one to this post; one to the ingenious Irishman who put the idea into my head.

We shall see.

First, though, I shall sleep.
The peace of the night.

Drink Drive Campaign

ORKNEY police stopped 11 drivers during Northern Constabulary's two week Safer Summer campaign, but thankfully* none tested positive for drink driving.
Full article here.

Imagine, dear readers: During their campaign Orkney's busy Policemen within two weeks stopped 11 (in words: eleven) drivers.
Blimey!! That's one driver every 30 hours 54 minutes and 54 seconds!!!

Didn't I save a drop of Highland Park for special moments?
Ah. Yes. ...

Here's to the brave Orkney policemen,
to Sergeants Pluck and MacCruiskeen
and the busy bees of Orkney Today. Sláinte!

 

* 'thankfully?! I thought it was a Drink Drive Campaign!

Cover Story 0003

The Trial

The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder

Nada ...

Afghan War Diary

[...] close to 92,000 classified documents pertaining to the war in Afghanistan have been leaked. SPIEGEL, the New York Times and the Guardian have analyzed the raft of mostly classified documents. The war logs expose the true scale of the Western military deployment [...]
Continue

http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/series/afghanistan-the-war-logs

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/world/war-logs.html

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,708314,00.html

I see no need to add any personal note - at this point ...

Cover Story 0001/2

Currently I am surrounded by (about) the books I concider to be my favourite thousand.

All in perfect order.

There are 

- two shelves with German authors

- one shelf with English authors

- one (a bit bigger than the English shelf) with Irish authors

- one with North American authors

- one with Italian, French, Spanish and Latin American authors

- one with Scandinavian, Russian and other European authors

- one with African and Asian authors

- one with anthologies

- one with philosophy, politics and other non-fiction

- one full of science and dictionaries

... and all in alphabetic order. :)

Did the third line read ' All in perfect order'?

They are not. Not anymore. And it's all Stan's fault.

Had he not removed a book from its tower and thus had not caused it stoppling unstoppably against its neighbour and causing a domino-effect he might not have felt prompted to carry out a modest plan that had just taken seed; certainly there would not have such a chaos been caused in my book shelves.

Do I feel upset? Yes!!

And no.

Actually, somehow I do feel what might have been a tiny mishap for an Irish language-connoisseur, could turn out to become a  giant leap for Omnium.

You know such situations? Reading a book, suddenly you (want to) say: 'Oh, Darling, listen.' ...

Now is not every reader (considered) Omnium's darling (per se), but ... yes: For quite a while I thought of introducing my readers to at least some books I do find recommendable.

My problem(s) so far: 

- (proverbial) laziness ... those who prefer to call it arrogance are forgiven

- lack of time ... to look up all those words to let my reviews sound not only excellent, but let my readers jump up and hurry to the next bookshop around the corner and order the book

To cut it short: Thanks to Stan I do see an opportunity to introduce you to at least some books I like, without the need to tell you why. For sure: (if you want) you'll find out yourself.

So here's what I decided to call Cover Story 0001.

The World According To Garp*:

A Time to Dance

Under the Milkwood.

* See my next problem? Due to my laziness (see above) when reading a book I'd prefer to read it in German which offers the opportunity to sometimes sentence the translator to at least two seconds of severest  swearboarding ... but ...

on the other side, this dilemma provides possibilities ...

Alas ...

In such a Night

Getting Through

The Dark

The peace of the night.