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Al tien jaar zonder Thé.

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“But she had also privately decided she was a different kind of believer from her mother, and could survive the occasional anthropological adventure into sin.”

Zadie Smith - NW (2012), p. 163

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“Als een volleerde wever heeft ze in een mum van tijd een kleed gesponnen door draden aan elkaar te knopen waarvan je je naderhand pas afvraagt of ze wel bij elkaar passen.” 

Connie Palmen - Voornamelijk Vrouwen (2023), p. 48

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“He couldn’t very well mention the erasers, pencils and postage stamps, or even perhaps a torn, tiny scrap of an unfinished poem. After all, with a poetess, one might make fertile her very words.”

John Irving - The Water-Method Man (1972), p. 29

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D E C O L L A G E S M A K E N D E B R U G

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“The bridge rails cut him up and paste him together, a collage of feet and spokes crossing the river to me.”

John Irving - The Water-Method Man (1972), p. 186

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“She went round the houses asking for old magazines, which she brought home and cut up with her scissors. Then she returned and sold her collages to the villagers.”

Neneh Cherry - A Thousand Threads (2024), p. 9

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“It was as if I’d eaten a whole magazine; and the paper, in shreds, was wadded in my belly.”

John Irving - Setting Free The Bears (1968), p. 347

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“When Moki was four, she taught herself to read by cutting out letters and words from newspapers and gluing them next to the household objects from the catalogues.” Neneh Cherry - A Thousand Threads (2024), p. 8

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DE COLLAGES MAKEN DE BRUG!

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geert simonis peppa pig era XII - can't sleep 'cause my fridge is on fire

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“And everything else - as if someone someone were speaking through a fan, and only the quickest speech-pieces made it between the blades - was chopped and whished into a single voice, indistinguishable from the rub of clothes and human weight against the walls and door.” John Irving - Setting Free The Bears (1968), p. 82

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“But the idea that fiction builds empathy is one of incomplete politics, left hanging by probably good intentions. The concept of instrumentalizing fiction or art as a kind of ethical protein shake, such that reading more and more diversely will somehow build the muscles in us that will help us see other people as human, makes a kind of superficial sense - and produces a superficial effect. The problem with this type of reading is that in its practical application, usually readers are encouraged - by well-meaning teachers and lazy publishing copy - to learn things; which is to say, as a supplement for their empathy muscles, a metabolic exchange that turns writers of color into little more than ethnographers - personal trainers, to continue the metaphor. The result is that we largely end up going to writers of color to learn the specific - and go to white writers to feel the universal.” Elaine Castillo - How To Read Now (2022), p. 30

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geert simonis peppa pig era XI - satan styles his hair with a helicopter

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“One thing seems to have mattered, though. My father was something of a linguist, and Jesenje is less than fifty miles from the University of Zagreb, where my father studied languages. This may have been a premonition on his part - pessimism at a tender age: to master the speech of several occupying armies before they came to occupy.” John Irving - Setting Free The Bears (1968), p. 181

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“We hechten pas later waarde aan het alledaagse. En de tijd gaat net te snel… Nee, de veranderingen om ons heen gaan precies zo langzaam dat we het net niet merken. Ik weet niet wie daar achter zit, maar het is heel gehaaid.” Spinvis in OOR, januari 2025, p. 61