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by Vero Eicher on 28.12.2003
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the quote of the day:
Ah, Hope! What would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.
(Moodie Susanna)
the book of the day:
Die Asche meiner Mutter(1997) McCourt Frank
»Natürlich hatte ich eine unglückliche Kindheit; eine glückliche Kindheit lohnt sich ja kaum. Schlimmer als die normale unglückliche Kindheit ist die unglückliche irische Kindheit, und noch schlimmer ist die unglückliche irische katholische Kindheit.« Frank McCourts Erinnerungen an seine Jugend in den dreißiger und vierziger Jahren gehören zum Schrecklichsten und zugleich Schönsten, was je über Irland und die irische Seele geschrieben...

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