28.12.2025, Post #1499: 5 personal favorite posts / 5 persönliche Favoriten-Posts

Celebrating 1.498 preceding posts: 5 personal favorites / Anlässlich von 1.498 vorausgegangenen Posts: 5 persönliche Favoriten:

• 19 Nov 2016, Jim Jarmusch: Paterson. — “… Mr. Paterson … is a bus driver who lives without a cell phone and keeps writing poetry. He draws inspiration from bus passengers’ conversations, a box of matches, and poetry written by physician and writer William Carlos Williams who wrote about Paterson, his own home town … The bulldog Marvin is charmingly played by the bulldog Nellie (now deceased; posthumously received the Palm Dog Award)”
• 13 Sep 2017, ♣ Summer garden houses (SZ series): Re-reading Horace … Contributed by a guest writer, based on a series of articles in Süddeutsche Zeitung, 5.8.-13.9.17. Von den 1920er bis zu den 1960er Jahren ließen sich Träume von paradiesischen Schreiborten noch in Form von Gartenhäusern realisieren, auch wenn nicht jeder wie Thomas Mann in Nidden das Preisgeld eines Literaturnobelpreises dafür einsetzen konnte. Manche schrieben in kleinen Hütten, wie etwa Roald Dahl in seinem Garten bei London, der dort mit einer Thermoskanne Kaffee und sechs Bleistiften ausgerüstet seinen Schreibtag verbrachte …
• 7 Nov 2019, Re-reading Pirsig (1974): Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. … [Wikipedia:] Genre: Philosophical fiction, Autobiographical novel … explores … [the] Metaphysics of Quality … The title is an apparent play on … the 1948 book Zen in the Art of Archery … Pirsig received a remarkable 126 rejections before an editor finally accepted it for publication — …. Then it was on best-selling lists for decades … sold at least 5 million copies worldwide … the best-selling philosophy book of all time.
• 25 Feb 2021, Lawrence Ferlinghetti died 3 days ago, at age 101. … [The Guardian:] … Poet whose outlook spanned anarchism, ecology, publishing and the City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco … was the least “beat” of the Beat Generation … City Lights … “Pick a book, sit down, and read” …
• 13 Sep – 1 Oct 2024, Tour de Mémoire near Mediterranean coasts, incl. Trieste, Venezia, Sanary-sur-Mer, Avignon, Aix-en-Provence, Mt. Ventoux. … Time travel through (counter-)cultures involved …

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• 19 Jul 2021, Post #999: Which posts in this website are popular? These are the 10 all-time favourites
• 10 Mar 2018, Post #499: What the Dormouse said … Life, what is it but a dream? (1941 Looking-Glass, p.199).