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Beers & Books LXXVI – José Ortega y Gasset

The Revolt of the Masses
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"Better beware of
notions like genius and inspiration;
they are a sort of magic wand
and should be used sparingly by anybody
who wants to see things clearly."

José Ortega y Gasset (9 May 1883 – 18 October 1955)

Saturday Night Music – Adriana Varela

Adriana Varela * 9 May 1952

Beers & Books LXXV – Thomas Pynchon

V.,
The Crying of Lot 49,
Against the Day*,
*
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions,
they don't have to worry about the answers.

* List of Episodes in Against the Day

* Pynchon Wiki: Against the Day

 Thomas Pynchon *8 May 1937

Beers & Books LXXIX – Egon Erwin Kisch

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Egon Erwin Kisch (29 April 1885 – 31 March 1948)

 

Beers & Books LXXVIII – Ian Rankin

"I don't have many friends.
It's not because I'm a misanthrope.
It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained.
I get all my adventures in my head
when I'm writing my books."

Ian Rankin *28 April 1960

Beers & Books LXXVII – Roberto Bolaño

Literature is a vast forest
and the masterpieces are the lakes,
the towering trees or strange trees,
the lovely eloquent flowers, the hidden caves,
but a forest is also made up of ordinary trees,
patches of grass, puddles,
clinging vines, mushrooms and little wildflowers.

Roberto Bolaño (28 April 1953 – 15 July 2003)

Beers & Books LXXVI – Terry Pratchett

Truthfully,
without over-egging it, as I often do,
the library and journalism,
those things made me who I am.

Terry Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015)

Milord

Milva (17 July 1946 – 23 April 2021)

Window View

20:18

 

Milva

Milva (17 July 1939 – 23 April 2021)

Beers & Books LXXV – Anthony Trollope

Three hours a day
will produce as much as a man ought to write.

Anthony Trollope (24 April 1815 – 6 Dezember 1882)

Beers & Books LXXIV – Halldór Laxness

Love of, and respect for, the humble routine
of everyday life and its creatures
was the only moral commandment
which carried conviction when I was a child.

Halldór Laxness (23. April 1902 in Reykjavík – 8. Februar 1998)