TODAY - January 13

 

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: JANUARY 13

New 2021 edition

TODAY’s PERSON:

I have today chosen the Irish author and poet JAMES JOYCE.  He was born in Dublin in 1882 and died on this day in 1941 in Zürich, Switzerland.  He is considered to be one of the greatest authors of the 20th century.  His most famous novel is ULYSSES. It tells about one day in the life of a Dublin man, Laurence Bloom, in June 1904.  It is a novel of 730 pages and written in a language, which is famous, but also somewhat difficult to read.  Joyce lived a large part of his adult life abroad – in Trieste, Italy, in Paris and in Zürich.  But his novels almost always dealt with Ireland.  It was his perception that if you understood Dublin, you would understand all cities anywhere.

One of his many quotes were:

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

See a photo of James Joyce below.

TODAY’s NAME:

Today is called HILARIUS DAY.  He was born in France in 315, became a bishop in Poitiers in France, and he died in 367. He was among other things saint for handicapped children. And he is considered to be the first hymn writer in the Christian church.

This day is also the day of festival for all shoe makers.

The day’s name in Belgium is the same: SAINT HILAIRE.

 

TODAY’s EVENT:

1990:  A progrom in Azerbadjan kills 132 Armenians.

 

TODAY’s QUESTION:

To keep the pot boiling  - where does that come from? And what does it mean?

This expression has its origins in the works of the Greek sophist and collector of proverbs Zenobios (117-38). He worked for the emperor in Rome.  He writes:  If the pot boils the friendship will last.

Much later the English poet Charles Dickens (1812-70) uses the expression to keep the pot boiling  when he quotes young people, when they suddenly stof in the middle of their philosophical discussions. Then the others present said: keep the pot boiling.

Today the expression is still used to say:  keep going – continue. With what you are saying, doing, trying, planning, etc.

 

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Flamengo – where does that word come from? And what is it?

47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

EUROPE AT WORK     www.europe-at-work.be

 

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

An elderly lady is like a cathedral: the older it gets, the less important is each year.

This is said by the British author Agathe Christie.

 

2.  Today’s quote:

A democrat is a person, who suffers from the prejudice that he wants to hear his opponent.

Who among today’s persons has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

      1596:  Jan van Goyen  (died  1656)

1866:  Vassili Kalinnikov  (died 1901)

1898:  Kaj Munk  ( died 1944 )

 

4.  Famous people died on this day:

1864:  Stephen Foster  ( 37 years )

1941:  James Joyce  ( 59 years ) – see above and below.

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

www.simplesite.com/kimbrer   +  EUROPE AT WORK   www.europe-at-work.be



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