Mason Currey, “Daily Rituals: How Artists Operate”

ISBN: 0307273601 | 2013 | EPUB/MOBI | 304 internet pages | one MB/one MB

Franz Kafka, discouraged with his residing quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in 1912, “time is brief, my power is constrained, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward lifestyle is not feasible then one need to consider to wriggle via by delicate maneuvers.”

Kafka is one of 161 inspired—and inspiring—minds, among them, novelists, poets, playwrights, painters, philosophers, researchers, and mathematicians, who describe how they subtly maneuver the several (self-inflicted) road blocks and (self-imposed) day-to-day rituals to get done the perform they really like to do, no matter whether by waking early or keeping up late whether by self-medicating with doughnuts or bathing, drinking vast quantities of espresso, or using extended every day walks.

Ein Verbrechen, das Rätsel aufgibt: In einem abgelegenen Waldstück am Lago Maggiore finden sich die Leichen des israelischen Journalisten David Cohns, die seiner Verwandten aus Bierstadt und die eines unbekannten Radfahrers.