"Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed."
Erasmus of Rotterdam (28 October 1469 – 12 July 1536)
Jordi Savall * 1 August 1941
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| "Join the army and see the next world." |
Dylan Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953)
"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."
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| 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) |
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| There it had happened. During a photo session Burro lost balance and a second later found himself backwards on the beer bottom. |
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| 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.
Although I know that the longer I live the shorter I'll be dead, I shan't crow about.
I might regret, once ...
