I've sat through a complete Ring Cycle back-to-back - although, I must admit, I did take a 10 minute break in Siegfried to make a cup of tea. That's...
We live in a self- regulating system. There are of course many situations where the impact of british culture is seen however , f.ex English has many...
Thanks, I just finished reading A Clergyman's Daughter. It was very enjoyable, although rather like a dramatised series of essays and given a female...
Jose Saramago, Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Thomas Hardy, Jane Austen, Walter Scott...
Favorite Book:
Difficult to choose... Pride & Prejudice, The three Musketeers, The Siege of Lisbon
Location:
Saarburg, Germany
Interests:
folk dancing, reading, living history
Occupation:
freelance translator/housewife
Signature
One has to laugh before being happy, because otherwise one risks to die before having laughed.
"Je crains [...] que l'âme ne se vide à ces passe-temps vains, et que le fin du fin ne soit la fin des fins." (Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac, Acte III, Scène VII)