“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
Oscar Wilde
Friday
Breakfast at Beňovský Bistro & Market and numerous coffees to shake the fog from my brain.
With a few hundred pages to go in the Lonesome Dove series, it is time to think about what to read next.
I have decided to read Tracy Daugherty’s biography of Larry McMurtry before moving on.
After the twelve novels of McCarthy, I am adopting a top five approach. The only consideration with this method is determining what books are the top five for an author.
I will go with Hemingway –
The Old Man and the Sea
A Farewell to Arms
For whom the Bell Tolls
The Sun Also Rises
The Garden of Eden
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
Ernest Hemingway
It starts to rain and I never want it to stop. The air is cool and the sound makes me want to sleep.
I get under the covers and read. The sound is hypnotic.
“The word miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is a monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
doma u nás by Gabo Kocák for dinner. Not a degustation, we do have limits.
Marinated trout tartare and duck breast with zucchini in citrus-butter sauce to start.
For mains, shoulder of lamb with mushrooms and buttered mashed potatoes. For Shell, gray with vegetable couscous and cauliflower.
doma is severely lacking in the dessert menu so we head across the road for some cake and beer.
Tomorrow, Budapest.
There is a sense of things coming to an end and it is a little depressing.