Charles Bukowski: “It’s the only good fight there is”
Don’t try.
Written on Charles Bukowski’s gravestone.
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I write this on the occasion of the birthday of Charles Bukowski, but it is not his biography. Only...
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...
Albert Camus: A rebellious man
“…privileged to live one day as free people, namely as people who refuse to exert, as well as to be subject to atrocity.”
Albert Camus
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Imagine...
How to castrate a genius – Alan Turing
Man is an ungrateful, featherless two-legged animal.
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I don’t know how paradox it may sound what I’m about to tell you,...
Daniel Day-Lewis’ insane approach
I saw him for the first time in “My Left Foot”. A man condemned by fate and society to remain a trash, an effluvium...
The painter that killed Hitler
“I wasn’t eleven years old when I rebelled for the first time in my life. I didn’t want to be a clerk. I was...