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Best Reads 2013. II: Connie Palmen, I. M.: Ischa Meijer. In Margine. In Memoriam
In February 1991 Dutch author Connie Palmen is interviewed by the well-known talk show host and journalist Ischa Meijer. It is a meeting that changes the course of their lives, and what ensues is a...
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Not even the law of chance
Laurie Lee, another writer whose prose I admire. Having read Cider with Rosie years ago when we lived in the Cotswolds, not far from where Lee grew up, I am once again enjoying this marvellous memoir...
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Of fires, bicycles and buffoons (no, of Mother)
Talking about wonderful things, I had completely forgotten just how wonderful Laurie Lee’s Cider with Rosie really is. Here are some passages in which he talks about his mother … maintaining (or not...
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You opened the door to another world for me
Some thoughts from André Gorz’s book Letter to D: A Love Story. On love and life together: I understood that pleasure is not something you give or take. It’s a way of giving yourself and calling forth...
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