Today’s favourite Quotation

“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.”

-Ernest Hemingway

Maachen an net Maachen

Mei oder manner oft maachen ech mir Gedanken iwwer an em meng Generatioun. Ze erläutern, dass mir duerch an duerch geprägt sin vun eiser Emwelt, dei jo greisstendeels duerch Konsum an schlemmst Mettelmooss bestemmt  get, brauch ech eigentlech net. Et reegt mech net op. Ech geheiren jo selwer zou denen Menschen an drun gewinnt hun ech mech souwisou.

An awer leisst et mech net kaal. Zumols wann ech d’Verhaalen vun villen jonken Menschen hisichtlech den Wahlen am Juni betruechten. D’Non-Foutisme Attitude dei sech all Daag bei eiser Generatioun manifesteiert as – waat kann een aaneres erwaarden? och beim Thema Wahlen präsent. En politesch-orienteiert Gespreich mat engem 19-Jähregen ze feihren schengt onmeiglech, sief et duerch eng flagrant Dommheet oder duerch erhieflechen Mangel un Interesse. Continue reading

Quotation of the Day

“When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is ‘So it goes’.”

– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five