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...
McGuire, Bill: Hothouse Earth
What I mean by hothouse Earth, then, is not an ice-free planet, but a world in which lethal heatwaves and temperatures in excess of...
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,...
Lamott, Anne: Bird by Bird
In seventh and eighth grades I still weighed about forty pounds. I was twelve years old and had been getting teased about my strange...
Brandreth, Gyles D.: Elizabeth
The Prince once asked me, ‘How on earth did Shakespeare manage it? I am Prince of Wales. Shakespeare wasn’t, but he knew exactly what...
Conover, Ted: Cheap Land Colorado
The local expert on cold-calling is Matt Little, charged by the social service group La Puente with “rural outreach.” Matt has let me ride...
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...
R. H. P. Mason: Dějiny Japonska
"Moře potemnělo
a hlasy kachen
jsou matně bílé"
"Umi kurete
Kamo no koe
Honoka ni široši"
(Bašó)
"Kéž by bylo ticho
hlas cikád proniká
až do nitra samotných kamenů."
"Šizukesa ja
Iwa ni šimi-iru
Semi no...
Best Remembered Poems
Francis William Bourdillon
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
The night has a thousand eyes,And the day but one;Yet the light of the bright world diesWith...
McCall Smith, Alexander: The Kalahari Typing School for Men
Unfairness seemed to be an
inescapable feature of life, at least if you were Mma Makutsi from Bobonong in
Northern Botswana, daughter of a man whose...
McCall Smith, Alexander: The House of Unexpected Sisters
One day, of course, these differences
between men and women would disappear – there were signs of that beginning to
happen already – but she did...
Antonelli, Alexandre: The Hidden Universe
As a consequence, species are now probably disappearing faster than any time in human history. On every island, every continent, every coral reef, a...
John Updike: Milenci a manželé
„Já ti nevím,“ vzdychal před svou ženou. „Tohle prostě není společnost pro mě.“
„Ty jim vůbec nedáváš šanci,“ řekla, když ho vezla domů klikatými uličkami...
Sándor Márai: Svíce dohořívají
O stáří
"Člověk stárne pomalu: nejdřív zestárne jeho chuť do života a zájem o lidi, víš, zvolna je všechno velice skutečné, poznáš smysl všeho, všechno...
Smil, Vaclav: Growth
Recently it has been possible to claim that 90% or more of all the
extant information in the world has been generated over the preceding...