Beers & Books CLXXIV – Peig Sayers

“If curses came from the heart,
it would be a sin.
But if it is from the lips they come,
and we use them only
to give force to our speech,
they are a great relief to the heart.”

 

Peig Sayers (1873 – 8 December 1958)

Beers & Books CLXXIII – Goffredo Parise

Non sopporto più le persone
che mi annoiano anche pochissimo,
che mi fanno perdere
anche un solo secondo di vita.
*
I can no longer stand people
who bore me even a little,
who make me lose even a second of my life.

Goffredo Parise (* 8. Dezember 1929 – 31. August 1986)

Saturday Night Music – Cecilia Bartoli

Cecilia Bartoli *4 June 1966

Antonio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741)

Beers & Books CLXXII – Ugo Riccarelli

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Ugo Riccarelli (3 December 1954 – 21 July 2013)

Beers & Books CLXXI – Yuri Herrera

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Yuri Herrera *1970

Beers & Books CLXX – Stefan Zweig

"All the pale horses of the apocalypse
have stormed through my life,
revolution, starvation,
devaluation of currency
and terror, epidemics, emigration;
I have seen the great ideologies
of the masses grow and spread out
before my eyes.
Fascism in Italy,
National Socialism in Germany,
Bolshevism in Russia,
and, above all,
that archpestilence, nationalism,
which poisoned our flourishing European culture."

Stefan Zweig (28 November 1881 – 23 February 1942)

Rare visitor

A buzzard taking a rest ...

... this morning in Seanhenge.

 

The 19 years young Maria Farantouri

  

Maria Farantouri * 28 November 1947

Beers & Books CLXIX – Alberto Moravia

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant,
but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.

Alberto Moravia (28 November 1907 - 26 September 1990)

Saturday Night Music – Mauthausen Cantata

 

Iakovos Kambanellis (2 December 1921 – 29 March 2011)

Mauthausen Cantata

Mikis Theodorakis (29 July 1925 – 2 September 2021) 

Maria Farantouri * 28 November 1947

We are two

 

Maria Farantouri *27 November 1947

End Violence [...] Now!

My baker said it by using
a German idiom:
Violence
against women
does not come
into the bag

And in 13 other languages:
SAY NO
to violence against women!
Living in freedom
without violence

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

Beers & Books CLXVIII – Arundhati Roy

The trouble is that once you see it,
you can't unsee it.
And once you've seen it,
keeping quiet, saying nothing,
becomes as political an act as speaking out.
There's no innocence.
Either way, you're accountable.

Arundhati Roy *24 November 1961