Monochrome Monday

Oh god, there was the morning light
as Dafydd ap Gwilym would whisper. Perhaps. ;-)

Impressió, sol ixent

«Impressió, sol ixent»
(Claude Monet – 1872)

My impression at first glance: I would love to have this Monet hanging in my library.
My monetary condition doesn't allow for it, though.

Beers & Books (403) – Máirtín O'Cadhain: The Key

Why would people call this book kafkaesque?
It's an excellent Ó Cadhain.

Máirtín ò Cadhain (1906 – 18 October 1970)

Beers & Books (402) – Miller: Death of a Salesman

Death of a Salesman

Arthur Miller (17 October 1915 – 10 February 2005)

Farewell serenade

At 15°C and sunshine, at midday today
the first cranes circled over Seanhenge

on their way south and delighted me with their singing.

A wonderful concert.

Beers & Books (401) – Katherine Mansfield

The Collected Stories

Katherine Mansfield (14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923)

Beers & Books (402) – Three more books fitting the beer

So that I don't get bored, my library has been updated on the occasion of my attempt to orbit the sun one more time, starting today.  

Two novels
and
an anthology with 28 stories

And as an encore:
three books that I had only wished for Christmas ;-)

Today 532 years ago

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)

Friday is Skyday

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Beers&Books (400) – Schrödinger's Cat

Schrödinger's Cat

Erwin Schrödinger (12 August 1887 – 4 January 1961)

Monochrome Monday

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Friday is Skyday

October 4th, 2024, not 1582. ;-)  

 

4. Oktober 1582

Ah, 4th October 2024! Exactly 442 years after in 1582 the Gregorian calendar of Pope Gregory XIII was introduced in Catholic countries, which is why the 4th was immediately followed by the 15th of October.
No 5th, no 14th of October.
13th of October? So when was I born?
Maybe I wasn't born at all?
Very interesting. ;-)