05 November 2020

Beers & Books XXVII

Alright, a beer and a film.

Alfred Wainwright (17 January 1907 – 20 January 1991)

The Englishman who Went up a Hill and Came down a Mountain

Miserable fools

Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.

Arthur Schopenhauer
(22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860

03 November 2020

Beers & Books XXVI

Morale in times of globalisation
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I think in English the title is
The Art of the Impossible

Václav Havel (5 October 1936 – 18 December 2011)

01 November 2020

Carmen Amaya



Carmen Amaya ( 1 November 1913 – 19 November 1963)

Magic of Fandango



Carmen Amaya ( 1 November 1913 – 19 November 1963)

Sabicas (16 March 1912 – 14 April 1990)

Fandango

27 October 2020

Eyes walk

Autumn colours

on the golf course
in the wood
on its skirts
and everywhere
my eyes were walking.

 

23 October 2020

Beers & Books XXIII

The Grammar of Fantasy
The art of imagining stories


Gianni Roderi (23 October 1920 - 14 April 1980)

Beers & Books XXII

Monsieur Nicolas;
Or, The Human Heart Unveiled:
The Intimate Memoirs of Restif de la Bretonne


Rétif de la Bretonne (23 October 1734 – 3 February 1806)