Coffee time with Seamus Heaney

The Redress of Poetry

 
Seamus Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013)

Beers & Books (393) – Henry James: Daisy Miller

Daisy Miller
& Other Stories

Henry James (15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916)

Friday is Skyday

Developing "wings" ...

... mighty cloudsbird

Dahlia delight

Their bulbs

overwinter in cellar

to delight our eyes

in summer

in many shapes

and colours

until they start fading away

and their bulbs ...

"My" Rowan

A birthday present twenty years ago ...

"my" dear Rowan grew and grew ...

and its berries taste good to me and our feathered friends.

Beers & Books (392) – Time Machine and other works

The Time Machine

 H. G. Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946)

The old cherry tree

The old cherry tree
He provides us with cherries
and welcome shadow

 

Beers & Books (391): Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome

Ethan Frome

Edith Wharton (24 January 1862 – 11 August 1937)

Coffeetime with young García Márquez

The "Giraffe aus Barranquilla"
comprises 82 journalistic works by García Márquez
written between 1948 and 1952.
"La Girafa" was the title of a column
that the then 22-year-old regularly wrote
for the Colombian daily newspaper "El Heraldo".
Many of the short glosses and literary sketches,
in which he processed everyday experiences,
paved the way for his later work.

Gabriel García Márquez (6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014)

Friday is Skyday

20:06

 

Laughing Lhursday*

The artist's commission:
Paint within 3 minutes
Don Quijote on Rocinante and Sancho Panza on his donkey
approaching a windmill.
And voilà!
As an encore, the artist even added a scorching sun over La Mancha,
or is it a dust-wreathed herd of mutton? ...

* [For first time visitors]:

Typo in the title?
Nah. It's just that I would not
let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.

Two things are certain

Two things are certain:
Humanity will vanish.
Nature will prevail.

 

Beers & Books (390) – Das Geheimnis der Pineta

"Enigma in luogo di mare"
A fine read, the more while enjoying holiday in Italy. ;-)

Carlo Fruttero (19 September 1926 – 15 January 2012)

Franco Luccentini (24 December 1920 – 5 August 2002)

Fruttero & Luccentini