Unity?

After 37 years, almost an entire generation knows, at best from hearsay, what life felt like in the two Germanys (in the decades) before 9 November 1989.
No doubt this has to do with education. And therefore with stupidity.
If Hamlet lived in these climes, he would probably say with respect to the German Unity Day:
Something is rotten in the state of Germany.

And who were I to disagree?

Friday is Skyday

...

Laughing Lhursday*

For some phenomena,
even I have no explanation. ;-)

* [For first time visitors]: 
Typo in the title? Nah. It's just that 

I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.

The most beautiful word

En güzel deniz:
henüz gidilmemiş olanıdır.
En güzel çocuk:
henüz büyümedi.
En güzel günlerimiz:
henüz yaşamadıklarımız.
Ve sana söylemek istediğim en güzel söz:
henüz söylemiş olduğum sözdür ...
Nâzim Hikmet, 24 Eylül 1945


The most beautiful sea:
the one not been sailed yet.
The most beautiful child:
the one not grown up yet.
The most beautiful days of ours:
those we did not live yet.
And the most beautiful word I want to tell:
the word I did not tell you yet.
September 24th, 1945


Das schönste Meer:
das noch nicht befahrene.
Das schönste Kind:
das noch nicht herangewachsene.
Unsere schönsten Tage:
jene, die wir noch nicht erlebten.
Und das schönste Wort, das ich dir sagen möchte:
jenes, das ich dir noch nicht gesagt habe.
24. September 1945

El mar més bonic: 
el que encara no hem navegat. 
El nen més bonic:
el que encara no ha crescut.
Els nostres dies més bonics:
els que encara no hem viscut. 
I les paraules més boniques que us vull dir:
les que acabo de pronunciar... 
24 de setembre 1945 

;-)

Nâzım Hikmet (17 January 1902 – 3 June 1963)

Beers & Books (460) – Empty Spain

La España vacía
Leeres Spanien
Empty Spain

Sergio del Molino *16 August 1979

Beers & Books (459) – Flannery O'Connor: Stories

Not a soul can be trusted anymore.

Flannery O'Connor (25 March 1925 – 3 August 1964)

Friday is Skyday

Spectacular cloud shows

... in the sky these days.

Beers & Books (458) – Stories from Uruguay

La casa de la Calle Socorro & others

Beers&Books (457) – Storytellers of the world

Short stories from 28 countries.
Published 40 years ago.
Still excellent!

 

Friday is Skyday

It’s starting to turn autumnal.

Beers & Books (456) – Fernanda Melchor: Saison der Wirbelstürme

Hurricane Season
*
Temporada de hurracanes 

Fernanda Melchor *1982

Beers & Books (455) – El amante bilingüe

El amante bilingüe

Juan Marsé (8 January 1933 - 18 July 2020) 

Beers & Books (454) – Fischer vs. Spasski

The complete games 
from the World Chess Championship in Reykjavik, 
with detailed commentary

On 1 September 1972, the chess world had a new world champion. The American Robert ‘Bobby’ Fischer, a highly unpleasant character, ended the decades-long dominance of Russian chess players in Reykjavik with a 12.5–8.5 victory over the defending champion Boris Spassky, and pocketed the highest prize money ever awarded in chess up to that point: 78,125 dollars from the host country, Iceland, and the British banker Jim Slater, with special permission from the Bank of England, had a special prize of 50,000 pounds sterling transferred to an Icelandic bank account.