Friday is Skyday

Looks as if ...

... there were someone dancing.

 

Beers & Books V

 

The Lady with the Dog

Anton Chekhov (29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904)

On the Road

. . .

 

Beers & Books IV

My Name is Red

 

Orhan Pamuk *7 June 1952

In memoriam Jacobo Árbenz

Jacobo Árbenz (14 September 1913 – 27 January 1971)

Beers & Books III

An Ian McEwan
would have been fitting, too.
But then a spell was put upon me.

John Burnside *19 March 1955
 

Saturday Night Music – Mahler's Symphonie No. 8

Symphony No. 8 (first performance on 12 September 1910, in Munich).   

Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911)

Teta

Clément Marot (23 November 1496 – 12 September 1544)

Friday is Skyday

First my eyes detected
a birds head and beak,
focusing on the whole ...

... it was a baboon.

Beers & Books II

I would give all my fame
for a pot of ale.

Henry V: Act 3, Scene 2

 Shakespeare's sonnets

Beers & Books

In August I mentioned at Andrew's that I had bought a "bunch" of different bottles from the other side of the Channel and that  some for me "strange" names inspired me to what might become a little series: Beers'n'Books.

Alright, here we go.

Obviously
some people
brewers even
will never learn.

[That must do, 'cause otherwise ...]

Ralf Rothmann *10 May 1953

Im Frühling sterben*

*To Die in Spring. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ISBN 9780374278144, 2017

Tango Tuesday – José Ángel Trelles

José Ángel Trelles * 28 August 1948

Little swallow

Sometimes
I do feel a great sadness.