Jeremy Clarkson: Round the bend
Très bien – a plumber in a tux – Citroën Berlingo Multispace
„It’s also true, of course, that Parisian women are very elegant, but I...
Seddon, Christopher: Humans
At the present time, we are living in
a warm interglacial period: MIS 1. This was preceded by the glacial MIS 2,
which lasted from 24,000...
Yuval Noah Harari: Sapiens – A Brief History of Humankind
In Homo sapiens, the brain accounts for about 2–3 per cent of total body weight, but it consumes 25 per cent of the body’s...
Friedman, Thomas L.: From Beirut to Jerusalem
But in order to make that state economically viable, the Maronites appealed to France to include in it not only their traditional Mt. Lebanon...
Daniil Charms: Dobytku smíchu netřeba
Truhla
„Člověk s tenkým krkem vlezl do truhly, zaklapl víko a začal se dusit. „Tak,“ povídá si ten člověk s tenkým krkem, zatímco se dusil,...
Harari, Yuval Noah: Homo Deus
In 1974 the first World Food Conference was convened in Rome, and delegates
were treated to apocalyptic scenarios. They were told that there was no...
Jaroslav Seifert: Nejkrásnější bývá šílená
Počitadlo
„Tvůj prs
je jako jablko z Austrálie
Tvé prsy
jsou jako dvě jablka z Austrálie
Jak mám rád toto počitadlo lásky!“ (20)
Píseň o malých dívkách
„Co je krásnějšího na...
Barrett, Lisa Feldman: Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain
Why did a brain like yours evolve? That question is not answerable because evolution does not act with purpose—there is no “why.” But we...
Wallace-Wells, David: The Uninhabitable Earth
The earth has experienced five mass extinctions before the one we are living through now, each so complete a wiping of the fossil record...
Barbara Kingsolver: Poisonwood Bible
Father feels makeup and nail polish
are warning signals of prostitution, the same as pierced ears.
Father surveyed our despair as if
he’d expected it all along,...
Yong, Ed: An Immense World
Philosophers have long pitied the goldfish in its bowl, unaware of what lies beyond, but our senses create a bowl around us too—one that...
Örkény István: Minutkové grotesky
I nejsmělejší sny mužeme uskutečnit!
„… proč je zapřahujete do auta?“
„Protože řídím špatně.“
„To se můžete naučit.“
„Jakžtakž, Ilonko… Auto a člověk nejsou rovnocenní partneři.“
„Jen se rozhlédněte!...
Greer, Germaine: The Female Eunuch
Five years ago it seemed clear that emancipation had failed: the number of women in Parliament had settled at a low level; the number...
Deutscher, Guy: The Unfolding of Language
Some linguists believe that Homo erectus, some 1½ million years ago,
already had a language that was rather similar to what I have called the...
Jaroslav Seifert: Ruce Venušiny
Svatební cesta
„Kdyby nebylo těch pošetilých polibků,
nejezdili bychom na cesty svatební.
Kdyby však nebylo svatebních cest,
k čemu by potom byly Wagon lits?
Nádražních zvonků věčný strach,
ach Wagon...
Petöfi Sándor: Básně
Sedmihradsko
„Ó, vřelo ve mně, bolelo mne,
že jediný jen národ má dvě země
a je to právě národ maďarský! …
Kdybychom však se byli semkli,
svět by teď...