"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
~ Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms



"Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey sequence of bumping into's and tumblings apart."
~ Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet



Thursday, February 9, 2012

The Perfect Pub...Moon Under Water - George Orwell


(The Temple Bar In Dublin, Ireland)

"My favourite public-house, the Moon Under Water, is only two minutes from a bus stop, but it is on a side-street, and drunks and rowdies never seem to find their way there, even on Saturday nights.

Its clientele, though fairly large, consists mostly of ‘regulars’ who occupy the same chair every evening and go there for conversation as much as for the beer.

If you are asked why you favour a particular public-house, it would seem natural to put the beer first, but the thing that most appeals to me about the Moon Under Water is what people call its ‘atmosphere’..."

Read More Here: Moon Under Water by George Orwell


(The Brazen Head, Dublin, Ireland)

(The Spaniards & The World's End, London, England)














(The Bear, Oxford, England)

(The Bunch of Grapes, London, England)
(The Great Canadian Pub, Paris, France)


(The White Hart, Wales, UK)

 (Inside the Brazen Head, Dublin, Ireland)

(O'Donoghue's, Dublin, Ireland)
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