How to castrate a genius – Alan Turing

Man is a two-legged animal without feathers and ungrateful. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I don’t know how paradox it sounds what I’m about to tell...

Men that didn’t go to school and changed the world

There's something just as inevitable as death. And that's life. Charlie Chaplin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ After “Bad pupils, ingenious adults” we go on with some people who either didn’t...

A suicide’s gospel

“I know that each one of us travels alone to love, to faith and to death.” Yannis Ritsos “Of a book full of death, reading how...

Beetroots and aubergines for Tom Robbins

When I was twenty years old I was into great writers like Camus and Kafka. Chris was lending his father a hand at the...

A child that they named him Amadeus

Sometimes I wonder: If Mozart was born in our time, what kind of music would he write? Instrumental? Cinematic? Jazz? Or would he be...

Charles Bukowski: “It’s the only good fight there is”

Don’t try. Written on Charles Bukowski’s gravestone. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I write this on the occasion of the birthday of Charles Bukowski, but it is not his biography. Only...