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Professor Trompsky #2

Welcome back professor Trompsky, glad you took your time to talk about the controversial Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh. - Thank you. These are very serious matters yes. I think he is the least capable person in America today to become a Supreme Court Justice. Every which way you look at it, this nomination ...

De 36e nacht van de poëzie

Ik had mezelf beloofd, verslag te doen van de 36e nacht van de poëzie, op 29 september in Tivoli Vredenburg. Die ochtend waren Miru en ik in de domstad gearriveerd, waar we van de stralend blauwe lucht genoten tot het tijd werd voor de poëzie. Het wemelde van de mensen in de muziektempel waar de gedichten ...

Objet trouvé: modesty

A great man is always willing to be little. - Ralph Waldo Emerson A modest little person, with much to be modest about. - Winston Churchill I want to stretch out my tentacles to tackle the idea of modesty. Sound the clarions, hoist the flags, this self-proclaimed writer marches in to lecture about a virtue ...

Our language

I overlook the green garden The wind is almost invisible A sheep is bleating, nearby Look at the evolution of Our language, she is layered She is a flight And a hiding place Some people make it The green garden doesn't make it The wind doesn't make it The sheep doesn't make it

Professor Trompsky #3

Professor Trompsky, what do you think of the intellectual climate of today? There is a worrying decline of what I call the culture of wisdom. More often than not, people engaging in debates are more concerned with cementing their own argumentation, making their own narrative waterproof as it were. Instead of trying to integrate the ...

Fietstocht door Nederland Week 2

Fietstocht door Nederland Dag 8 Familiebezoek in Groningen Op de televisie werd toevallig de documentaire De achtste dag uigezonden, over de financiële crisis van tien jaar geleden. Indrukwekkende poriënfotografie van een zilvergrijze Wouter Bos, en mede-acteurs als Wellink, Trichet, Balkenende. Wij werden wakker in een prinsesjeskamer tussen meerdere dunne dekentjes met hier en daar hondenhaar: ...

Reading: Nocturnal Sailing by Mario Wirz

Mario Wirz (1956-2013) was a German poet and writer who started his career as theater actor and director. I read a poem in a translation by Renate Latimer: the wind in your dream swells the curtains into a sail tears asunder all the things we have collected in the fearful light of the bedside lamp ...

DARK HUMOR

How many Catholic priests does it take to change a lightbulb? . . . . . .

Writing is dying elsewhere.