Kategorie: Allgemein

Castling.

  • 2021-10-22

[...] at Versailles, no one of importance speaks quickly and spontaneously, every utterance is planned like a move in a chess game.

Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver

Edurantion.

  • 2021-10-21

I tried to cover my embarrassment by ranting to the children about Descartes and Euclid.

Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver

Dare to laugh.

  • 2021-10-20

Eliza laughed out loud, lustily, drawing glares from women who never laughed that way, or at all.

Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver

Windycle.

  • 2021-10-19

Luxury problem of the week: so much wind that the bike might fly away.

Private happiness, public tragedy.

  • 2021-10-18

With good food and wonderful people one could almost forget the climate crisis.