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I had the feeling the world was disintegrating around meEverything became ugly, distorted, as if someone did it on purpose……to try to make me regret it less…and...
Doodles
These are the doodles that Hilde Van Gelder created for her book Ground Sea. Photography and the Right to Be Reborn, forthcoming mid-September from Leuven University Press. They were made between 2017 and 2019, and are numbered 1 to 33. From May 18, 2021 onward until October two doodles per week were posted here.
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I AM REBORN IN THE TIME RETOLD IN THIS NOTEBOOK. Susan Sontag, Reborn. Journals & Notebooks 1947–1963, ed. David Rieff (New York: Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 2...
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At the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, there is a series of pictures painted by the so-called Master of Alkmaar. These are scenes of everyday life, people gathered to...
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And under the oppression of the silent fogThe tolling bellMeasures time not our time, rung by the unhurriedGround swell, a timeOlder than the time of chronomete...
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“I would do so knowing that what has been interrupted cannot be resumed, that the gap would remain there always, hidden perhaps but constant, and knowing that a...
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Some explanatory scenarios: 1. Having an illiterate father encourages the habit of reading. 2. An illiterate father encourages the habit of reading. ...
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Fifth Deadly Sin: ENVY or VAINGLORY (acedia, id est anxietas seu taedium cordis, et conodoxia, id est jactancia seu vana Gloria). This is Mr Everybody, the man ...
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Sol: Now, what news on the Rialto? Sal: Why yet it lives there uncheck’d, that Antonio hath a ship of rich lading wrack’d on the narrow seas; the Good...
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On 5 April [1982], the British Task Force left Portsmouth, cheered and waved off by a pugnacious and surprisingly bloodthirsty crowd, clamouring for a fight to ...
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Let us make room. Let us fill the holes. Or let us spread and open our arms to let the newcomers into our circle. No matter what we do, it will be a Dance of...