Halloween

Scottish Prayer

From ghoulies and ghosties
And long-leggedy beasties
And things that go bump in the night,
Good Lord, deliver us!

Happy birthday!

The Atlantic Life Timeline: "Explore your life in history. Tell us your birthday, and we’ll show you how the world has changed during your lifetime." Kann man hier ausprobieren!

Coole Quotes: Listen (IV)

„Perhaps Homer’s catalogue of ships, running through all the homes and varieties oft he Greeks and giving them representative heroes, worked a little bit like a comic in a Northern club warming up an audience. ‚Is there anybody here from Doncaster tonight?‘ 

Aus: Francis Spufford (Hrsg.): The Chatto Book of Cabbages and Kings. Lists in Literature. Edited, with an Introduction, by Francis Spufford. London: Chatto & Windus 1989 (S. 8).

Welcome to Earth

Weil gerade so viele Kinder geboren werden:

"Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind."

— Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

Mai im Garten

Einmal um den Titisee in Bildern

Britisches und amerikanisches Englisch

"63 key differences between British and American English" gibt es hier.

Coole Quotes: Listen (III)

„The elegy was more than an idiom for children’s literature. The Puritans recognized that writing about childhood is an elegiac practice. […] The list and the elegy lie at the heart of children‘s literature, but they are not just arbitrary categories. List-making always has an elegiac quality to it, as if we reckon up accomplishments or failures for the book of life. But list-making also forstalls the elegy. It becomes a way, in this life, to take up time, to keep us busy and defer that final reckoning.“ 

Seth Lerer: Children’s Literature. A Reader’s History, from Aesop to Harry Potter. Chicago, London: The University of Chicago Press 2008, 84.