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Except for working for the government …, I don’t think I ever worked anywhere where I was caught in a trap. I know someone who worked in a Navy office, this hug...
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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The architects of the European project have fooled themselves into believing that avoiding mentioning the “D” word is a surefire way to prevent it from happenin...
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“As long as we occupy Calais, we can console ourselves for the loss of Antwerp.” Saying allegedly expressed by Lord A.J. Balfour to Sir Winston Churchill, then ...
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The trip under the Channel was a bit of an anti-climax. We descended into blackness for half an hour and could see nothing. I had hoped for something to happen,...
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and I know your room has no wallsbut it really won’t take long anymorewe regain strength in Calaiswe regain strength in Calaisand tomorrow we go together to the...
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“it consoles me to think that with you my story might even …” He again sought some better word, but again could not find it: “… yes, that it might still float. ...
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Who is she? Where does she come from? Have I encountered her before? I mean one and a half millennia earlier? Does she come from a noble Greek lineage, and did ...
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Now that I know that the quotation comes from Macbeth, I can’t help but realize (or perhaps remember) that also behind us, at our backs, is the person urging us...
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A fifth time they dug her up years later. A gaping hole where her heart had been ripped out to be placed in a reliquary. Three centuries later physicians would ...
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And I notice two days before the show opens that Balcerowicz of Poland and Becker of the University of Chicago continue to agree: the markets are reviving, back...