| In the woods ... |
24 February 2025
23 February 2025
22 February 2025
19 February 2025
18 February 2025
The bad is called good
We live now in an era where normal values have been displaced.
The good is called bad, the bad - good.
Anna Politkovskaya (30 August 1958 – 6 October 2006)
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17 February 2025
16 February 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)
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15 February 2025
14 February 2025
13 February 2025
Laughing Lhursday*
Hens have two legs
I have two legs.
Ergo, I am a hen.
* [For first time visitors]:
Nah. It's just that I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.
12 February 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)
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11 February 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) |
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10 February 2025
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