What I see when I turn around

...

Update: 
The photo shows about ten per cent of my exquisite little library.

On the left shelf from top to bottom. 1+2: French literature; Irish literature below. 
Centre shelf: 1+2: Russian authors; 3-5 (up to the owls): Italian authors; 6: South American literature.
Right shelf: 1+2: African and Asian literature; 3: Icelandic and Scandinavian literature (Faroe Islands, Norwegians, Swedes, Finns, Danes; 3+4: Catalan, Portuguese and Spanish literature. 5. continuation of Latin American authors, plus (not in the image) Iranian authors.

Laughing Lhursday* – Two Daphne

Two Daphne – the writer and the mug*.

* Inspired by Mark. ;-)

Daphne du Maurier (13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989)

* [For first time visitors]:

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

Heralds of long-awaited rain

Last Friday, 12:45.

Beers & Books (421) – Woolf: Monday or Tuesday

Monday or Tuesday

Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941)  

It is fragrant all around Seanhenge

On the lower balcony, the climbing hydrangea is fragrant,

while jasmine and ...

... elderflowers perfume the front.

And the roses ...

... are a delight to behold

Beers & Books (420) – The tale of prince Biribinker

Prince Biribinker is a strange child:
raised by bees, he pees the purest nectar 
and when he does his big business, 
confectionery is served in royal society. 
Everything could go on as sweet as honey 
if the old magician Padmanaba didn't have his fingers in the pie.

Christoph Martin Wieland (5 September 1733 – 20 Januar 1813)

Saturday Night Music – Nunca vas a comprender

 

Rita Payés *29 September 1999

Coffeetime with architect of ruins

Coffeetime with 
The Architect of Ruins
and
Skaumo

 
Herbert Rosendorfer (19 February 1934 – 20 September 2012)

Unforgotten

 

Tankman

Tian’anmen* massacre

* Mind you, Tian'anmen means "Square of Heavenly Peace" ...

... But on the whole ...

„Ich liebe den einzelnen Menschen, jeder, der mir näher kommt, den ich näher kennenlernen möchte, im Großen und Ganzen, mit Ausnahmen. Aber insgesamt betrachte ich die Menschheit doch ein bisschen als Ungeziefer, weil sie unsere Erde zerstört.“   

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I love the individual human being, everyone who comes close to me, who I want to get to know better, by and large, with exceptions. But on the whole, I see humanity as a bit of a vermin because it is destroying our planet."

Herbert Rosendorfer (19 February 1934 – 20 September 2012 

 

The price of apathy ...

Plato (427 BC – 347 BC)

Not just on battlefields

Blutroter Klatschmohn
blüht nicht nur auf Schlachtfeldern.
Er liebt das Leben.

Springsteen in dangerous times

 

Bruce Springsteen * 23 September 1949

 

P.S.: Thank you very much, SME.