Josef K.’s trail started on the morning of his 30th birthday, when two officials came to arrest him. The trail ended on the eve of his 31st birthday, when two officials came to take him away for execution. In between, a mind boggling and incomprehensible trail—or process, if you will—takes place.
It’s a shadowy business, this [...]
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Number 69
The last couple of months I came to the conclusion that my Windows XP installation was getting real messed up. Something had to be done. So yesterday I decided that it was time to ditch Windows altogether and installed Ubuntu 9.10. That’s a big fat check-mark next to number 69 on my list of 100 [...]
Brief aan het RefDag
Op mijn lijstje van 100 dingen staat “write a letter to the editor.” Daar kan nu een vinkje bij. Naar aanleiding van weer een tenenkrommend stuk in het RefDag kon ik me deze keer niet inhouden en stuurde onderstaand reactie naar de hoofdredactie.
Strikt gezien klopt er wat in uw artikel “Weerstand in VS tegen uitdelen [...]
Concertgebouw: check
For the eight time I saw Wende put on a great show yesterday. It was the opening night of her three-night stand at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and the program promised a search for the most beautiful love story, packaged in a theatrical mosaic of music, images, text and song. As I saw her previous [...]
Pyramid: check
Today, my sister and I went for a bike ride to the Piramide van Austerlitz, near Amersfoort. It is gloriously pointless and it is probably the most ridiculous monument in The Netherlands. It doesn’t make any sense at all. It’s awesome.
The pyramid was build in 1804 by the French army under Auguste de Marmont, and [...]