Omnium

Monday, February 17, 2025

Sunday, February 16, 2025

Dark suspicion

I've got a deep dark suspicion
that pretty soon we should start
looking around for another planet
for ourselves.

Wolfgang Borchert (20 May 1921 – 20 November 1947)

Saturday, February 15, 2025

Saturday Night Music – Carnaval de Venise

Niccolò Paganini (27 October 1782 – 27 May 1840)

Olivier Pons *1970

Gabriel Bianco * 25 April 1988

Friday, February 14, 2025

Thursday, February 13, 2025

Laughing Lhursday*

Hens have two legs
I have two legs.
Ergo, I am a hen.

* [For first time visitors]:

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

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

A process of discovery

As a writer, I write to see.
If I knew how it would end, I wouldn't write.
It's a process of discovery.

John McGahern (12 November 1934 – 30 March 2006)

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Beers & Books (418) – By the Lake

Oh, a book by John that I don't know yet?
So I asked my bookseller to order it for me in the USA.
A few days later I held ‘By the Lake’ in my hands,
opened it and started reading.
‘The morning was clear. There was no wind on the lake.’
A déjà vu? I know that one, don't I?
And right:
Exactly the beginning of ‘That They May Face The Rising Sun’.
Vintage International had just changed the title.

John McGahern (12 November 1934 – 30 March 2006)