A week or so ago I stumbled across these lines (in 'The Rattlebag', edited by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes): 'In the earthquakes to come, I very much hope
I shall keep my cigar alight, embittered or no'
Bertolt Brecht (from the German--trans. by Michael Hamburger)
I thought it was interesting, mainly because we've just had an earthquake here. And as I typed that another substantial aftershock hit. That's what happens these days.
I shall keep my cigar alight, embittered or no'
Bertolt Brecht (from the German--trans. by Michael Hamburger)
I thought it was interesting, mainly because we've just had an earthquake here. And as I typed that another substantial aftershock hit. That's what happens these days.