Beers & Books CC – Salvatore Niffoi

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Salvatore Niffoi * 19 February 1950

Friday is Skyday

 Sunset while storm begins.

Moving the focus but a tiny bit northwards.

Monochrome Monday

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Saturday Night Music – Franz Schubert

Franz Schubert (31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828

Beers & Books CXCVIX – J.M.Coetzee

We must cultivate, all of us,
a certain ignorance, a certain blindness,
or society will not be tolerable.
*
I am not the we of anyone.

J.M. Coetzee * 9 Februar 1940

Beers & Books CXCVIII – Sebastião Salgado

In GENESIS,
my camera allowed nature to speak to me.
And it was my privilege to listen.

Sebastião Salgado *8 February 1944

Beers & Books CXCVII – Kate Chopin

The artist must possess a courageous soul
that dares and defies.

 

Kate Chopin (8 February 1850 – 22 August 1904)

Majority of US-Republicans obviously fascistoid, to put it politely

I do have to learn a vast majority of US Republicans have officially reprimanded two internal "T-critics"- (the very idiots complete name has not and will never be mentioned here) and at the same time appropriated the very idiot's reinterpretation of the events at the so-called Storming of the Capitol.

"Justification": Being the only Republicans on the investigative committee on the so-called storming of the Capitol Cheney and Kinzinger (the very idiot's internal critics) are part of a "Democrat-led persecution [sic] of ordinary citizens [sic] who have engaged in legitimate political discourse [sic]", the resolution says.

In other words: Anyone killing someone in "God's own country" is but engaging in legitimate social discourse.

Conclusion: The majority of those "US-lawmakers" calling themselves republicans are fascists or at least fascistoid, to put it politely.

PS: US-Democrats just happen to look a tiny bit less evil.

PPS: As Hamlet might put it nowadays: "There is something rotten in the US of A."

Saturday Night Music – Renata Tebaldi

Renata Tebaldi (1 February 1922 – 19 December 2004)

Beers & Books CXCVI – Paul Auster

The New York Trilogy
*
The world is so unpredictable.
Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly.
We want to feel we are in control of our own existence.
In some ways we are, in some ways we're not.
We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

Paul Auster * 3 February 1947

140 Years of Joyce

Joyce, 1922,
photo taken by Man Ray.

James Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941)

Per il centenario

Renata Tebaldi (1 February 1922 – 19 December 2004)

Beers & Books CXCV – Shoot to kill

This book is from 1985.
Today marks the 50th anniversary.
The murderers will probably need no Amnesty.
They will die without being tried.

Bloody Sunday 30 January 1972