21.08.2025 - Drinking Writers and Quotes & Hemingway, Ringelnatz, Poe, Wilde, Baudelaire, Bukowski etc.

dali48 and photographing during a visit his parents' former house in SHA-Steinbach etc.

dali48 and playing chess and stopping smoking as a sports student in Tübingen in the 70s etc.

 

Wolfgang G. Greiner 

dali48 was born in SHA in 1948... Studies in Tübingen in 1970 etc. Teacher & Author in Erkrath, 8/1983 till 5/2010 ... retired in Wickrath since 6/2013 etc.

see dali48 and "I think - therefore I am" etc. (Descartes), see The motto "I buy, so I am" (M. Fox)

"As long as humans think that animals do not feel, animals must feel that humans do not think." " - author unknown

see dali48 and nearly being touched by a low flying swift at lake Unterbacher near Erkrath, 8/1983 till 5/2010

Each day is our whole life - from sunrise to sunset etc… (dali48) 

see dali48 and "Zen finds religion in the daily activities." (I-tuan), see Does Zen believe in a soul? - However, the Buddha taught that there are no such things as a permanent Self or Soul which can be reincarnated or reborn after death (Rahula, 1974: page 3). The Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh believes there is no reincarnation in Buddhism (Miller, 2012).

see What is a Zen spirit? - Zen is defined as a state of calm where actions are guided by intuition rather than by conscious effort. The term comes from the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese word Chan – with roots to the Indian practice of thinking and meditating known as Dhyana.

see What is the psychology of Zen? - Zen is experiential, not didactic. Enlightenment relies heavily on intuition, metaphor, and poetry. The master can point in the general direction toward wisdom, but each person must find their own personal path.19.03.2022

see Is Zen ok for Christians? - Because they are not on the same plane, Zen and Christianity do not conflict. Graham in his book, Zen Catholicism also points out that there is no harm in applying Zen insights into Catholicism.

see Does Zen believe in afterlife? - In Zen, Life and Death are one, a continuum, and they are not separated and there is no dividing line between them (as, indeed, there is actually no dividing line between anything, there only seems to be – divisions are arbitrary and made to enable us to function in the finite world, what Zen calls 'the world of form') ...10.03.2014

see How does Zen affect life? - Zen meditation reduces stress and anxiety by promoting relaxation and deep-breathing techniques. It helps people to manage their emotions, gain clarity of mind and experience deep peace and emotional well-being. The practice halts constant intrusive thoughts.09.05.2024

see What makes a person Zen? - They don't let stress, anger, or frustration get the better of them. According to the Cambridge Dictionary, the word “zen” refers to a person's ability to remain calm and relaxed in the face of difficulties and not worry about things out of their control.27.02.2021

see Is Zen good for Mental Health? - Meditation and mindfulness practices like Zen Therapy have also been shown to have a variety of other positive effects, both mentally and physically, such as promoting feelings of calmness, improving sleep and immune function, reducing feelings of stress and increasing self-awareness.09.11.2022

Let go of something you like, and realize how fleeting it is by living without it... (Ayya Khema) 

What is the Buddhist quote about pain? - A quote usually attributed to Buddha says, “Pain is inevitable but suffering is optional.” What a profound statement! There is no suffering if you can let go. Pain becomes immaterial in the absence of suffering.29.01.2012

Buddha realized that all living beings suffer because they desire and cling ... - Peace is an inner attitude to life that consists of letting go and renunciation (see e.g. nuns & monks etc. - d.48) ... (Buddha) 

„Das Leben im Daseinskreislauf ist leidvoll: Geburt ist Leiden, Altern ist Leiden, Krankheit ist Leiden, Tod ist Leiden; Kummer, Lamentieren, Schmerz und Verzweiflung sind Leiden." (Buddha)

see dali48 and own experiences and reading & writing about Kübler-Ross, Moody, NDE, LAL etc. 

Hands that help are holier than lips that pray! (Robert Green Ingersoll) 

see dali48 and UBI & ground pension since 2008, and inflation compensation etc.

see dali48 and Climate Change since Copenhagen 2009 etc. - "Uncontrolled capitalism is producing evil - as bees are producing honey" etc.

see dali48 and reading & writing about peace etc. - see e.g. Zen and Buddhism & Peace & Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh, Ayya Khema etc, and St Nicholas, St Hildegard, St Francis etc. (dali48)

May "God" bless you! - see dali48 and may the Saints & Guardian Angels bless you etc.!

see dali48 and eating less meat, and more fruits & veggies since the 80s etc.

see dali48 and reading & writing about chick shredding, and buying Free range eggs etc.

Homeopathy of S. Hahnemann (ca. 200 years old) should be updated, - i.e. for me more Mother tincture & less medicine shaking, and why is there no homeopathic vaccination? - see "similibus" principle etc. (dali48)

see dali48 and "I hope that Biontech (formerly in Mainz, now in London) & #mRNA #vaccines etc. - will develop a vaccination against cancer etc."

see dali48 and Vollgeld-Initiative & Basic Income in Europe etc. - instead of Banking Crisis 2008 etc.

I also like weeping willow trees - e.g. when I was on camping vacation in the 80s in France & Spain, I had my lunch (fish soup) under such a tree (that was like a tent) in the park of Bordeaux etc. (dali48)

see dali48 and "flora & fauna" since ca. 2000, and deforestation instead of planting trees etc

see dali48 and trees and "flora & fauna" and healthy air etc.

see dali48 and tree planting - instead of deforestation etc.!

see dali48 and Bread - instead of fire-works harming animals, pets etc.

see dali48 and Democracy & human rights & gender justice etc.

"Respect for life - should be the only religion in the world!" - "Religion is a journey inside - and meditation is the way there." ... (Osho)

see dali48 and health and suitable shoes (see e.g. Canles etc. - d.48) & foot hygiene etc.

see dali48 and “If the Trees disappeared off the face of the earth - mankind would only have little left to live healthy,” see e.g. Amazonas forest, Indonesia

siehe dali48 und "Wie viel Wald verliert Deutschland aktuell pro Jahr? - Die Ergebnisse sind alarmierend: Von Januar 2018 bis einschließlich April 2021 wurden in Deutschland auf rund 501.000 Hektar Fläche Baumverluste verzeichnet. Der Verlust entspricht fast fünf Prozent der gesamten Waldfläche und ist damit erheblich höher als bisher angenommen. 21.02.2022" 

see e.g. @CGShanghaiAir Shanghai - 2023-03-06 4PM - PM2.5 - 103 AQI - Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups ... etc. 

siehe z.B. Air quality in Mönchengladbach etc.

see dali48 and trees & photo synthesis and fresh air and health and cooling and biodiversity etc.

see dali48 and "flora & fauna" and reforesting etc.

siehe „Eine Gesellschaft ohne Gott, ist wie eine gut organisierte Räuberbande“, hat Papst Benedikt den Bundestagsabgeordneten ins Stammbuch geschrieben (see e.g. Cum-Ex etc. - d.48)
see dali48 and demand for the repayment of 300 euros of self-approved inflation compensation for politicians at the taxpayer's expense etc.

see dali48 and health and herbs (see e.g. M. Mességué), and e.g. kidney-tea, gastrointestinal tea, tea for colds etc.

see dali48 and "Words have no direct reference to life, are only a pale echo or image of something that itself is no longer there" ... (D. T. Suzuki)

see dali48's mother Gabriele and playing piano in Steinbach in the 50s, see dali48 and playing piano for 1 year with Mrs Kirsch in SHA in the 50s, and Christmas songs with Mrs Takahashi in Erkrath in the 80s

see  "love" might be defined as "a temporary insanity curable by marriage" ... (Ambrose Bierce)

see dali48 and reading about money & war, - and feeding the poor & birds etc.

In Armut lebt: Jeder 3. Student & 5. Rentner, Wer kein „Entlastungspaket“ bekommt: Studierende, Rentner ohne Grundrente, Kranke, https://pic.twitter.com/RUv88KaLbx

see dali48 & for UBI since 2008 & #ClimateEmergency 2022 & for alternative energy as e.g. wind power & solar energy and solar- 

lamp, roof, panel, cooker, window solar-foil etc. since the 70s as a student in Tübingen etc.

see dali48 and writing Tagebuch 2008 + 2009, diary3 (2010) in Erkrath, ediary4+5 (2011+2012), Collection of ediary6-12 (2013-2019) in Wickrath etc.

see dali48 and started cycling in the 1950s at the age of 4.5 in Steinbach, cycled to the St. Michael high school in SHA in the 1960s, cycled on the motorway near Freiburg on car-free Sunday during the 1973 oil crisis, 1978 cycling by tricycle to the grocery store on Kyushu in Japan, cycling in Erkrath, and around Lake Unterbach, along the Rhine in Düsseldorf and Cologne etc., 8/1983 - 5/2010, cycling by his folding-bike in Amsterdam 1998, cycling in Wickrath since 6/2010 etc. - and no own car since ca. 2004 etc.

Autobiography

dali48 was born in SHA in 1948 ... Graduation in 1968, High School St. Michael ... Military Service 1968/69 in TBB etc ... Study in Anglistics / Americanistics / Sports Science etc. in Tübingen etc. in 1970 etc ... French course at Touraine Institute in Tours in 1971 ... Conversation Classes as an exchange student at University of Leeds in 1972/73 ... Assistant Teacher in London in 1975 ... DFJW / SIT, Language Teacher, 1975/76 in Tübingen / Lenzkirch / Breitnau (Black Forest) ... Intensive course in Latein, University of Saarbrücken in 1976 ... Latinum, Bensheim in 1976 ... English & Japanese studies in Tübingen & Kurosaki, Japan in 1978 ... GFBA / Bonn, Teacher, German for Vietnamese in Künzelsau in 1979/80 ... VBW / Ellwangen, Teacher, German for Ethiopians in 1981 ... private tuition in SHA in 1982/83 ... From 8/1983 till 5/2010 as Private teacher for German, English, French, Latin, etc. in Erkrath ... In 1999, Teacher for Abacus in Solingen ... dali48 lives as an Author and Online blogger in 41189 Wickrath/Germany since 6/2010 ... retired since 6/2013 etc.

Interpretation by dali48 + update
Intoxicating? - Quotes of drinking writers:

"Drinking is a ... - to end the day"... (Ernest Hemingway)

Was Ernest Hemingway a drinker? - Hemingway wrote a number of literary classics and won the Nobel Prize for literature. He was renowned for his love of danger, including traveling to war zones and his interest in bullfighting. He was also known for his personal life, including his problems with alcohol. He committed suicide in 1961.

"The best magnifiers for the pleasures of this world are ... - from which one drinks" ... (J. Ringelnatz)

Übersicht mit KI

Joachim Ringelnatz, der humorvolle Dichter und Kabarettist, thematisierte Alkohol in seinen Werken, oft in Verbindung mit seiner eigenen Person und den Erfahrungen seiner Zeit.

Ringelnatz' Leben war geprägt von seiner Zeit als Seemann, seinem Kampf ums Überleben als Künstler und seinen Auftritten in Kneipen und Kabaretts. Diese Erfahrungen spiegeln sich in seinen Texten wider, in denen er Alkohol als Teil des Lebens, aber auch als Quelle von Problemen und Komik darstellte.

Ein bekanntes Beispiel ist die Figur des Kuttel Daddeldu, die oft mit Alkohol in Verbindung gebracht wird. Ringelnatz nutzte diese Figur, um gesellschaftliche Themen und menschliche Schwächen auf humorvolle Weise zu kritisieren.

Ringelnatz' Werk ist nicht nur eine Reflexion über Alkohol, sondern auch über die Weimarer Republik, die Kriegszeit und das Leben als Künstler in einer sich wandelnden Gesellschaft. Seine Gedichte und Texte bieten oft eine Mischung aus Lebensfreude, Melancholie und Gesellschaftskritik, wobei der Alkohol eine Rolle spielt, aber nicht immer im Vordergrund steht.

"Of course, my friends attributed the mental disorder to ... - and not drinking to my ..." (Edgar Allan Poe)

Übersicht mit KI

The full quote from Edgar Allan Poe is: "Of course, my friends attributed the mental disorder to drink - and not drinking to my insanity". This quote highlights Poe's perspective on his own struggles with mental illness and alcoholism, suggesting that his friends saw the drinking as the cause of his mental instability, while he believed the reverse to be true. 

Poe wrote about his struggles with mental illness and alcoholism in several letters. He described his "constitutional sensitivity" and "fits of absolute unconsciousness" during which he drank, and how his enemies attributed the insanity to the alcohol rather than the other way around according to Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore. In one letter to George Eveleth, he stated, "But I am constitutionally sensitive nervous in a very unusual degree. I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. During these fits of absolute unconsciousness I drank, God only knows how often or how much. As a matter of course, my enemies referred the insanity to the drink rather than the drink to the insanity". 

Poe's works often explored themes of madness, death, and psychological torment, suggesting a deep personal connection to these subjects. The quote reflects this, as it reveals his belief that his mental instability was a pre-existing condition that led him to drink, rather than the other way around. 

"After the first jar you see things, as you would like to ... - After the 2nd you see things as they are ... - Finally you see things as they really ... - and this is the worst on the world" ... (Oscar Wilde)

Übersicht mit KI

The complete quote by Oscar Wilde is: "After the first glass of absinthe you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see them as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world." 

This quote, often associated with his experiences with absinthe, highlights the powerful and potentially disillusioning effect of the drink, according to a Facebook post by All That's Interesting and a Yahoo article. The progression suggests a shift from wishful thinking, to distorted perception, and finally to a stark, unsettling reality. 

"The wine converts the ... - to the eagle" ... (Charles Baudelaire)

Übersicht mit KI

Charles Baudelaire sah Wein als Mittel zur Flucht vor der Realität und zur Inspiration für seine Dichtung. Er beschreibt den Rausch als eine Möglichkeit, die Bürde der Zeit zu ertragen und Glück zu finden, sei es durch Wein, Poesie oder Tugend. In seinem Gedicht "Der Wein und das Glück" personifiziert er den Wein und lässt ihn von seinen Vorzügen sprechen, wie der Fähigkeit, Freude zu bereiten und Erinnerungen zu wecken. 

Baudelaire, bekannt für seine Fleurs du Mal, betrachtete den Wein nicht nur als Getränk, sondern auch als spirituelle Erfahrung. Er glaubte, dass Wein, wie die Dichtung, die Fähigkeit besitzt, die Sinne zu erweitern und neue Perspektiven zu eröffnen. 

In seinem Werk "Du Vin et du Haschisch" beschreibt er, wie Rauschmittel, einschließlich Wein, zu Halluzinationen führen können, in denen Objekte ihre Form verändern und neue Realitäten entstehen. Er spricht von einer Vermischung der Sinne, in der Geräusche Farben annehmen und Farben Musik erzeugen. 

Baudelaire war ein Dandy und Verschwender, der einen Großteil seines Vermögens für ein ausschweifendes Leben ausgab. Sein Interesse an Rauschmitteln, einschließlich Wein, war Teil dieses Lebensstils. Er sah den Rausch als Mittel zur Inspiration und zur Bewältigung der Härten des Lebens. 

Zusammenfassend lässt sich sagen, dass Baudelaire Wein als eine Quelle der Inspiration, der Freude und der Flucht vor der Realität betrachtete. 

"Classical music and alcohol, taken ... - have carried me through many a night" ... (Charles Bukowski)

Übersicht mit KI

The quote, "Classical music and alcohol, taken ... - have carried me through many a night ...", is from Charles Bukowski. It's a line from his poem "Are You Drinking?". The full quote, including the missing part, is: "Classical music and alcohol, taken together, have carried me through many a night." According to a LiveJournal post. This line reflects Bukowski's complex relationship with alcohol and his appreciation for classical music as a source of solace and inspiration. 

The quote highlights how Bukowski used these two elements, classical music and alcohol, to cope with difficult or lonely nights. It's not just about the act of drinking, but also the specific combination of these two things that provides him with a unique kind of support. The line is part of a larger theme in Bukowski's work where he explores themes of suffering, isolation, and the search for meaning in life. 

(ARTE, 31.01.2010)

Why do writers drink? | Books | The Guardian

www.theguardian.com › Arts › Books › Biography

Jul 20, 2013 - Does it help writers to drink? Certainly Jack Kerouac, Dylan Thomas, John Cheever, Ernest Hemingway and F Scott Fitzgerald thought so.

see dali48 and reading & writing about Psychology & Psychiatry and e.g. Freud, Adler, Jung, and Groddeck, Frankl, Fromm, Reich, E. Berne, A. Janov, and Laing, Cooper, Szasz, and M. Rufer, A. Wolf-Schuler, T. Wollf, I. D. Yalom, J. Bradshaw, V. Kast, A. Lowen, E. Reich, P. Lauster, P. Schellenbaum, J. Murphy, S. Steinbrecher, E. Kübler-Ross, R. A. Moody, K. Ring, I. D. Suttie, E. Jacobson, S. Forward, H. Gastager, C. M. Steiner, W. G. Niederland, R. Funk, N. Schwartz-Salant, J. Shaw, M. Woodman, R. Reich-Moise, M.-L. v. Franz, M.B. Roberts, H. König, H.-J. Maaz, G. Boyesen, W. Hollstein, A. Samuels, J. Lacan, M. Klein, O. Fenichel, S.A. Carter, J. Sokol, H. Selye, E. Rossi, L. Bourbeau, W. Maltz, R. Spitz, B. Lämmle, L. Bellak, N. A. Cameron etc.