December 2008
Dec 20th
“I Arethusa arose From her couch of snows In the Acroceraunian...”
– by Percy Bysshe Shelley from “The Complete Poetical Works” (1904)
Dec 20th
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“When you climb a mountain, you are actually closer to the Sun, so why do you get...”
– A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Dec 20th
My favourite muffin-scene
JACK: How can you sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to be perfectly heartless. ALGERNON: Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them. JACK: I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at...
Dec 9th
Dec 6th
Pilots for supper
Dreaming about mountains… I wish I were a mountaineer.to see all these giants. not just to see, to feel them. to fight them and stay on the top of the world. Alpamayo. Tre Cime. Ben Nevis. Elbrus. K2. Monte Rosa. Yerupaja. Annapúrna. But I really do not wish for being in the Ands with a crashed plane and eating dead pilots… I guess what is the highest mountain of the...
Dec 4th