Edna O'Brien – 15 December 1930 – 27 July 2024

What a writer!
Not to write: What a woman!

Edna O'Brien (15 December 1930 – 27 July 2024)

Laughing Lhursday*

Comic cloud

* [For first time visitors]:

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

Beers & Books (387) – Kleiner Mann, was nun?

Little Man, What Now?

Hans Fallada (21 July 1893 – 5 February 1947)

Beers & Books (386) – Ernest Hemingway

Happy 125th birthday!

Ernest Hemingway (21 July 1899 – 2 July 1961)

Friday is Skyday

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Laughing Lhursday*

Eng...land! ... Eng...land!

* [For first time visitors]:

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

Beers & Books (385) – The Man with the Red Tie

Stories

 Hushang Golschiri (16 March 1938 – 5 June 2000)

Relats d'estiu de la Carme. Juliol: Waiting in the Rain

Una fotografia de sa lluna

Oh, oh, oh, the way she's standing there! I can already sense it. She will turn round, the corners of her mouth dropped as a sign of extreme annoyance, and after a meaningful pause she will hiss: ‘How nice you're already here. My darling, you obviously don't know that other mothers have handsome sons too.’
Oh, may she stand there with indignation until another mum's handsome son falls for her.
Some mums have pretty daughters too.

And thus, if she hasn't died, she's still waiting.

Beers & Books (384) – The Blind Owl

The Blind Owl

 Sadeq Hedayat (17 February 1903 – 9 April 1951)

Beers & Books (383) – The Praise of Folly

The Praise of Folly

Erasmus of Rotterdam ( 28 October 1466 – 12 July 1536)

Laughing Lhursday*

Chimney.

 * [For first time visitors]:

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

Miss Bumblebee

Friday is Skyday

What tiny an observatory
to watch those clouds
not to speak of the universe