A blissful repose of nothingness

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

Wir können unser Leben als nutzlos störende Episode in der seligen Ruhe des Nichts betrachten.

Arthur Schopenhauer (22 Februar 1788 – 21 September 1860)

Beers & Books VI

Terra Nostra

Carlos Fuentes (11 November 1928 – 15 May 2012)

Saturday Night Music – Adiemus colores

Karl Jenkins * 17 February 1944

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.

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

Henry V: Act 3, Scene 2

 Shakespeare's sonnets