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Dante Alighieri: Divine Comedy

the complete text…

tattooed poems

I searched for the poems tattooed on those persons skin.  each photo is a link…

dagboek

ik ben reeds elf weken in exile en schrijf wekelijks een tekstje naar het thuisfront.  nu ook op internet!!!

tarzan

In stature he was above the average height; his eyes were gray, his features regular and strong; his carriage that of perfect, robust health influenced by his years of army training….

reisverslag uit absurdistan (dutch)

Stress in en rond de luchthaven. Een getuigenis. Het is alweer een paar maand geleden sedert ik julllie de laatste keer deelachtig maakte van weer eens al te gekke maar al te waargebeurde verhalen. Welkom overigens aan de mensen die ik dit keer met of tegen hun goesting heb toegevoegd aan het groepje “Tale Receivers” [...]

He who knows what good is will do good

In the year 399 BC Socrates was accused of undermining the religious beliefs of the state and corrupting the youth who followed him. He believed that the ability to distinguish right and wrong lies in man’s reason

chaperon rouge

and more …

Red Riding Hood

[audio:http://jojobroll.free.fr/Musique/Divers/Nirvana%20-%20Rape%20Me.mp3] I love the story!  One day I’ll make a stageplay with it … for adults of course…

Nonviolent Communication

I’m reading a book …. A Language of Life by Marshall Rosenberg : ” Nonviolent Communication can dramatically improve relationships by helping people focus their attention on empathetic understanding of others without compromising their own values. It gives people tools to express their real feelings and needs openly and honestly, yet without blame or criticism. [...]

Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge

I tried to find the book by Rilke on an internetshop but I will have to go to the library …. (here you’ll find the original german text)

rampen, frieten en egypte …

Na een kort rijpingsproces ben ik opnieuw bevallen van een verhaal uit Absurdistan.

the meeting of east and west

and if man should taste of both fruits he would become, we have been told, as god himself (genesis)

Herman Hesse

The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.

charles bukowski poetry

Charles Bukowski, born in 1920, began writing at a young age and was first published in the 1940s. Then Bukowksi gave up writing for the world of work and bars, not publishing, not writing, so the myth goes, for nearly twenty years.

the books

there’s a sense of quality that we’re looking for in the material that we select. It’s kind of impossible to describe but you know it when you see it—when you come across something that has an aura about it, a certain power that lasts over time. Like a really nice guitar riff or something that [...]

The Moon over Mtatsminda

The Moon over Mtatsminda My eyes have never seen the moon so lovely as tonight; In silence wrapt it is the breathless music of the night. Moonbeams embroider shadows with fine thread of silver light; O, eyes have never seen the sky so lovely as tonight! …

music and the brain

Years ago I saw a theatre play by Peter Brook ( his film I like the most)that was inspired on a book written by Oliver Sacks ” The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat”. Now he wrote a new book. …

tales from absurdistan (dutch)

Ditjes en datjes in Almaty en Urumqi..

table for one for Mother Theresa …

This is one of Colbert’s best, a classic. He had me from the who’s bowling when it thunders, to a table for one by the lake of fire. The ultimate question for Stephen is “why be good if you don’t constantly feel the threat of heaven or hell”…

james avati

James Avati, a respected artist who was considered a “genius” in the cover-art world “the king of the paperback covers” …

arseni tarkovski poems

Belgians have Guido Gezelle, Russians have Arseny Tarkovsky… I waited for you yesterday since morning… .

john wiliam waterhouse

[audio:http://www.gamesounds.co.uk/audio/post2000/minorincursion_england_for_a_prayer.mp3] …They guessed you wouldn’t come…

iron john: the story

There are many variants, though the important elements are common to all versions. The story begins when a king sends one of his huntsmen into a forest nearby, a huntsman who never returns. The king sends more, each meeting with the same mysterious and unknown fate. The king finally sends all his remaining huntsmen out [...]

snow white

Once upon a time, a queen was doing needle work while staring outside her window at the beautiful snow. It was because of her distracted state that she pricked her finger on her needle and a drop of blood fell on some snow that had fallen on her windowsill….

little red riding hood

illustrations I discovered the free dictionary site (Wikipedia is a part of it)when I was looking for info on the grimm story “little red riding hood‘. All is there, so I have nothing to add… only some illustration I found (and there are a lot more out there…)…

Lew Wallace: a moustache man

general Wallace Being a general, he is best remembered for he writing the historical novel: Ben-Hur: a tale of the Christ. “A peculiarity of the most democratic people in the world is their hunger for heroes.”

Edgar Allan Poe:a moustache man.

E.A.Poe

she walks in beauty…

she walks…

poems by arseni tarkovsky

Arseny Tarkovsky My favourite poet… (originally in Russian…)

you,the night and the rose.

for Renée …A dear friend of us passed away, too soon…

rene asmussen

photos by Rene Asmussen

steffen drache

photos by Steffen Drache

György Konrád: some quotes

György Konrád: A feast in the garden (1989) “If you think about the fact how long it’s been since my father died, then it’s a little bit strange he was here a few moments ago.” Passage from Kerti mulatság. I bought the book in 1989, read it then, and I’m reading it again now. I [...]