Beers & Books CXLV – Dylan Thomas

"Join the army and see the next world."

Dylan Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953)

Saturday Night Music – Patricia Janečková

Patricia Janečková * 18 June 1998

Jacques Offenbach (20 June 1819 – 5 October 1880)

The Tales of Hoffmann

Friday is Skyday

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Reading tears in my eyes

 "If I go into the forest and meet a man with a thin jumper who has been walking around there for three days and screams out of fear when he sees me and I say he is safe with me and then he hugs me and cries for 20 minutes, I have never experienced anything like that."

Beers & Books CXLIV – George Mackay Brown

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George Mackay Brown (17 October 1921 – 13 April 1996)

Beers & Books CXLIII – Miguel Delibes

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Miguel Delibes (17 October 1920 – 12 March 2010)

Saturday Night Music – Dmitri Hvorostovsky

Dmitri Hvorostovsky (16 October 1962 – 22 November 2017)

Saturday Night Music – Dmitri Hvorostovsky

Dmitri Hvorostovsky (16 October 1962 – 22 November 2017)

Beers & Books CXLII– Oscar Wilde

We live in an age
when unnecessary things
are our only necessities.

Oscar Wilde *October 16th, 1854

Beers & Books CXLI – Stefano D'Arrigo

Measured by the number of titles,
D'Arrigo's literary oeuvre is slim
- one volume of poetry, two novels -
but his monumental magnum opus,
Horcynus Orca,
whose perfection occupied him for decades,
was perceived as a masterpiece
of Italian literature
when the first edition appeared in 1975.
The first translation of this novel
into another language 40 years later,
the translation into German
by Moshe Kahn in 2015,
was consistently hailed by literary critics
as the discovery
of a hitherto internationally unknown
piece of world literature.

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

Stefano D'Arrigo (15 October 1919 – 2 May 1992)

Laughing Lhursday*

There it had happened.
During a photo session
Burro lost balance
and a second later found himself
backwards on the beer bottom.

As rescue was at hand
the bur(ro)lesque had a happy end, though.
Afterwards, Burro felt, as he said,
Aphrodite-esque risen from the foam.

* [For first time visitors]: Typo in the title? Nah. It's just that
I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.

Another year survived

Although I know that the longer I live the shorter I'll be dead, I shan't crow about.
I might regret, once ...

Today 529 years ago

The American who was the first to discover Columbus made a fatal discovery.

Der Amerikaner, der den Kolumbus zuerst entdeckte,
machte eine böse Entdeckung. [G 183]

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)