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February 2, 2021
Up Next / Little Women
The question of 'Why This Book':
Louisa May Alcott: Little Women (1868)
"Don't you want to be inspired by the zeitgeist and read Little Women?"
asked a good friend, Gabor Veress, upon the release of the Oscar-nominated Greta Gerwig movie.
I envisioned a world in which Gabor, a 40-year-old successful economist, who - I don't remember how, but quickly and unalterable - became my dear friend during our studies at Columbia University, would read all the Hemingway recommended books on my reading li...
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A korona vírus ősze
(amit a kétezer-húszas világjárvány idején, Brazíliában tanultam)
MÁJUS
Ó, ha következmények nélkül lehetne bezárni egy férjet a kisvécébe! Hányszor fordulna nálunk kívülről az apró kulcs a zárban... Szerencsére nagyapám, a Donáth, öt éves koromban egy életre megértette velem, hogy ha az ember beriglizi a nagyanyját a szigligeti kert tujákkal takart budijába, hogy zavartalanul mehessen világgá, annak fájdalmas következményei vannak. Nem is éltem újra a módszerrel, pedig azóta sem találtam hatékonyabbat a másik meggyőzésére, hogy tartósan egy helyben maradjon...
May 15, 2020
Why Hemingway? - the ONE reason to read Ernest Hemingway's favorite books
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This 
is NOT how I imagined to answer the "Why should you read Hemingway's favorite books?" question. This is two-year-old Abraham's signature left on the blank screen having deleted everything I had written for this post. He climbed two shelves up to reach my computer that had this page left open and unsaved, why, because I was called urgently to do some mommy task. I'll leave it up here as the perfect illustration for this post, and frankly, for this online journal ...
