Der anglo-indische Lyriker und Schriftsteller Ruskin Bond wurde am 19. Mai 1934 in Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh, geboren. Siehe auch mein Blog vom 19. Mai 2009 und auch mein Blog vom 19. Mai 2010 und auch mein Blog vom 19. Mai 2011.

Do you believe in ghosts

“Do you believe in ghosts?”
Asked the passenger
On platform number three.
‘I am a rational man,’ said I
‘I believe in what I can see –
Your hands, your feet, your beard!’
‘Then look again,’ said he,
And promptly disappeared!

My Dream

There is a knight in shining Armor, he picks me up and transports me to Mussorie.....Have landed under the Chestnut tree, where Mr. Bond is busy scribbling his thoughts. He is shocked to see me...Hey Gal what are you doing here?
Sir, I had a dream to meet you and here I am with a small request.
He asks me, What?
Sir will you take me through the mountains, the pools, the river, the nook & corner of Mussorie?
Will you let me put my arms in the crook of your arm?
Will you show me these places with your eyes?
Will you show me how to see the beauty in these simple things?
I want to learn to live with these simple things, I want to smile on the simplest things...
Sir, will you teach me????
I will also thank him for being with me through my sad days & bad days, will thank him for making me realise through his writings that life is all about loving, caring, finding joy in small things & living.. Its about meeting new people making memories with them, take them with you if they want to, if they don’t gift them some memories so that even if you are not around you are missed....its about letting go and moving forward in life.....

Am still waiting for his answer, but I don’t want this dream to end....

Ruskin Bond (Kasauli, 19. Mai 1934)

Die deutsche Schriftstellerin Rahel Varnhagen wurde am 19. Mai 1771 in Berlin geboren. Siehe auch mein Blog vom 19. Mai 2009  und auch mein Blog vom 19. Mai 2010  und auch mein Blog vom 19. Mai 2011.

Aus: Gedanken, Beobachtungen und Erinnerungen

„Viel sprechen würd' ich immer, weil ich viel denke. Hierüber mündlich: daß das nämlich ein Irrtum ist, zu glauben, daß die, welche viel denken, schweigen. Wer plappert, freilich, der hat keine Zeit zum Denken. Aber wer Ideen hat, muß sie mitteilen.

Ehrlich sein im Denken, dann ist man wahr. Und nur die Wahrheit ist Heil! Wer ohne sie ist, altert; die Runzeln allein machen nicht altern. Daher auch kommt es, daß ich die nicht altern sehe, die ich liebe.

Wenn jemand sagte: »Sie glauben wohl, es ist so etwas Leichtes, originell zu sein! Nein, man muß sich viel Mühe geben; und es kostet ein ganzes Leben voll Anstrengung«, so würde man ihn nur für verrückt halten und gar keine Frage mehr anstellen. Und doch wäre die Behauptung ganz wahr und dabei ganz simpel. Originell wäre gewiß jeder Mensch und müßte es sein, wenn die Menschen nicht beinahe immer ganz unverzehrte Sprüche in ihrem Kopf annähmen und auch so wieder hinausließen. Wer sich ehrlich fragt und sich aufrichtig antwortet, ist mit allem, was ihm im Leben vorkommt, immerfort beschäftigt und erfindet unablässig, es sei auch noch so oft und lange vor ihm erfunden worden.

Es gehört Ehrlichkeit zum Denken, und es gibt gewiß beinah so wenig absolute Stumpfköpfe als Genies... . Imbéciles [Schwachköpfe] wären gewiß immer originell; es gibt aber fast keinen reinen; sie haben meist noch Verstand genug, unehrlich zu sein.“

Rahel Varnhagen (19. Mai 1771 – 7. März 1833)

Die amerikanische Schriftstellerin Jodi Lynn Picoult wurde am 19. Mai 1967 in Nesconset auf Long Island, New York, geboren. Siehe auch mein Blog vom 19. Mai 2010  und auch mein Blog vom 19. Mai 2011.

Aus: Nineteen Minutes

„In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five.

Nineteen minutes is how long it took the Tennessee Titans to sell out of tickets to the playoffs. It’s the amount of time it takes to listen to the Yes song Close to the Edge. It’s the length of a sitcom, minus the commercials. It’s the driving distance from the Vermont border to the town of Sterling, NH.

In nineteen minutes, you can order a pizza and get it delivered. You can read a story to a child or have your oil changed. You can walk two miles. You can sew a hem.

In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it.

In nineteen minutes, you can get revenge.

· · · · · ·

As usual, Alex Cormier’s life was running late. It took thirty-two minutes to drive from her house in Sterling to the Superior Court in Grafton County, NH, and that was only if she speeded through Orford. She hurried downstairs in her stockings, carrying her heels and the files she’d brought home with her over the weekend. She twisted her thick copper hair into a knot and anchored it at the base of her neck with bobby pins, transforming herself into the person she needed to be before she left her house.“

Jodi Picoult (Nesconset, 19. Mai 1966)

Die amerikanische Schriftstellerin Lorraine Hansberry wurde am 19. Mai 1930 in Chicago geboren.  Siehe auch mein Blog vom 19. Mai 2010 und auch mein Blog vom 19. Mai 2011.

Aus: A Raisin in the Sun

“Mama: You must not dislike people ’cause they well off, honey.

Beneatha: Why not? It makes just as much sense as disliking people ’cause they are poor, and lots of people do that.

Ruth: [a wisdom-of-the-ages manner. To Mama] Well, she’ll get over some of this –

Beneatha: Get over it? What are you talking about, Ruth? Listen,

I’m going to be a doctor. I’m not worried about who I’m going to marry yet – if I ever get married.

Mama and Ruth: If!

Mama: Now, Bennie –

Beneatha: Oh, I probably will … but first I’m going to be a doctor, and George, for one, still thinks that’s pretty funny. I couldn’t be bothered with that. I am going to be a doctor and everybody around here better understand that!

Mama: [kindly ] ’Course you going to be a doctor, honey, God willing.

Beneatha: [drily ] God hasn’t got a thing to do with it.

Mama: Beneatha – that just wasn’t necessary.

Beneatha: Well – neither is God. I get sick of hearing about God.

Mama: Beneatha!

Beneatha: I mean it! I’m just tired of hearing about God all the time. What has He got to do with anything? Does he pay tuition?

Mama: You ’bout to get your fresh little jaw slapped!

Ruth: That’s just what she needs, all right!

Beneatha: Why? Why can’t I say what I want to around here, like everybody else?”

Lorraine Hansberry (19. Mai 1930 - 12. Januar 1965)

Die englische Schriftstellerin Anna Jameson wurde am 19. Mai 1797 in Dublin geboren. Siehe auch mein Blog vom 19. Mai 2011.

Aus: The Diary of an Ennuyée

„July 12.—"Quel est à Paris le suprême talent? celui d'amuser: et quel est le suprême bonheur? l'amusement."

Then le suprême bonheur may be found every evening from nine to ten, in a walk along the Boulevards, or a ramble through the Champs Elysées, and from ten to twelve in a salon at Tortoni's.

What an extraordinary scene was that I witnessed to-night! how truly French! Spite of myself and all my melancholy musings, and all my philosophic allowances for the difference of national character, I was irresistibly compelled to smile at some of the farcical groups we encountered. In the most crowded parts of the Champs Elysées this evening (Sunday), there sat an old lady with a wrinkled yellow face and sharp features, dressed in flounced gown of dirty white muslin, a pink sash and a Leghorn hat and feathers. In one hand she held a small tray for the contribution of amateurs, and in the other an Italian bravura, which she sung or rather screamed out with a thousand indescribable shruggings, contortions, and grimaces, and in a voice to which a cracked tea-kettle, or a "brazen candlestick turned," had seemed the music of the spheres. A little farther on we found two elderly gentlemen playing at see-saw; one an immense corpulent man of fifteen stone at least, the other a thin dwarfish animal with gray mustachios, who held before him what I thought was a child, but on approaching, it proved to be a large stone strapped before him, to render his weight a counterpoise to that of his huge companion. We[Pg 4] passed on, and returning about half an hour afterwards down the same walk, we found the same venerable pair pursuing their edifying amusement with as much enthusiasm as before.“

19-05-2012 om 11:01 geschreven door Romenu