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»Was wären wir ohne Hašek und Kafka?« sagt er noch.
Und jemand anders sagt: »Was wären wir ohne Bier?«
Und jemand anders sagt: »Was wären wir ohne hospoda?«
Wir trinken ein Bier.
<J.Rudiš: Zum Šveijk: Eine Pilgerreise Böhmischer Art
🇨🇿Jaroslav Hašek (1883-1923) #BotD3004
He would drink by himself
And raise a weathered thumb
Towards the high shelf,
Calling another rum
And blackcurrant, without
Having to raise his voice,
Or order a quick stout
By a lifting of the eyes
And a discreet dumb-show
Of pulling off the top;
"Casualty" 1979 🇮🇪/🇬🇧
Samuel Beckett (1906-89) born on Easter Friday #botd1304, then enjoyed a painful passion and quite a few porters/stouts before exiling himself onto France.
...otherwise bulging with as many minor beauties from the gaelic prosodoturfy as could be sucked out of a mug of Beamish's porter. No wonder he felt a new man washing the bottles and emptying the slops of the better-class mentally deranged.
Beckett, Murphy (1938) #StPatricksDay
JMG Le Clézio (°1940, Nizza) #Nobel2008 🇫🇷#botd1304
„Mais Zinna n’allait plus à la plage. La lumière du soleil l’éblouissait, lui donnait le vertige. Elle ne sortait que le soir, pour acheter des cigarettes, des trucs à manger, de la bière."
🇫🇷 J.M.G. Le Clézio (13.4.1940)
Elle avait profité de ce qu’Adam parlait pour finir sa bouteille de bière, tranquillement ; elle aimait boire la bière sans se presser, à larges rasades longuement filtrées entre sa glotte et sa langue. Comptant presque les milliers de bulles...
#DatosCuirosos🤓
Este #martes13 celebramos el nacimiento de tres escritores galardonados con el Premio Nobel de Literatura ✍️
Samuel Beckett (Nobel 1969)
Seamus Heaney (Nobel 1995)
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (Nobel 2008)
#MiUniversidadEsCultura 💚💛
"For want of any children’s books, I read my grandmother’s dictionaries. They were like a marvellous gateway, through which I embarked on a discovery of the world... "
Happy 81st birthday to author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio.
Read his Nobel Lecture: https://t.co/myFw8Wnl56
🇫🇷 J.M.G. Le Clézio (13.4.1940)
Elle avait profité de ce qu’Adam parlait pour finir sa bouteille de bière, tranquillement ; elle aimait boire la bière sans se presser, à larges rasades longuement filtrées entre sa glotte et sa langue. Comptant presque les milliers de bulles...
The cinema quickly empties.
The young man from Cambridge goes his way to drink a glass
of Pilsen at Odenino's.
Evelyn Waugh (1903-66) #DotD0904 < "The Balance. A yarn of the good old days of broad trousers and high necked jumpers", 1926 🇬🇧
Milan Kundera #BOTD (1929-) 🇫🇷 🇨🇿
Le garçon a déjà apporté la deuxième tournée de bière ; sur la table reste toujours sa première chope qui, avec sa mousse retombée, est comme déshonorée à côté de la mousse exubérante de la chope nouvelle.
ABV,” until I wasn’t thirsty anymore—I was asleep."
Joshua Cohen 2015, Introduction to The Little Town Where Time Stood Still 🇺🇸 [🇨🇿1973/76] #Czechozythopia#PivníČeština@evanrail @Thirsty_Pilgrim
„Stopping in Prague on a day’s layover from Odessa I settled myself down in what I’d remembered as a hospitable hospoda, a cut-rate, run-of-the-mill pub, which, however, had become—in the span between my visit and when I’d lived in Prague in the early 2000s—an “artisanal...
hectolitres and two hectolitres alias doubles, according to need, and then great big fifty-hectolitre and hundred-hectolitre casks, in which whole brewings of beer were stored in the fermenting rooms and cellars, casks in which the beer matured.“
#Hrabal1976#CuttingItShort 🇨🇿
though before I even had the chance to inform myself about the “sustainable” pork goulash and the “organic” flour dumplings, he began to patter on, in gourmet Esperanto, about “Žatec-sourced heirloom hops,” “creamy malts in the nose,” “pithy citrus in the finish,” “6 percent...
anóbrž tupláky, a pak veliké padesátihektolitrové a stohektolitrové sudy, ve kterých ve spilkách a sklepích byly uloženy celé várky piva, sudy, ve kterých zrálo pivo na pivo obyčejné anebo ležák.“
#Hrabal1976#postřižiny#Czechozythopia@FilipNerad@jaroslavrudis
„Uncle Pepin liked sitting best out beyond the malting floors, sheltered on one side by the orchard, on the other by the chimney stack, beside which oak staves of all sizes were stacked, staves out of which barrels were made in the cooperage, kegs, quarter hectolitres, halves and
„Strýc Pepin nejraději sedával za humny, ukryt z jedné strany ovocným sadem, z druhé strany komínem, u kterého byly vyrovnané dubové dýhy všech velikostí, dýhy, ze kterých se v bednárně dělaly sudy, podle potřeby štěňata, čtvrthektolitry, půlky a hektolitry a dvouhektolitry...
“It’s a reasonable enough bread-juice, served properly – but the question was: was it? I bearded Le Patron: “Is the Landlord chilled?”
“Oh, yes,”he replied, “everything in the cellar is.”
A deal-breaker,then – I scanned the glass-fronted coolers behind the bar.”
#Brettanozythopia
@bartlebeer@LitBier It's a nice IPA by @unitybrewingco, the very entertaining barperson in the tap room recommended that I use this glass because of its "handfeel" and "pleasing weight". Agree with your general sentiment though! Books and beer make a divine pair