Friday, January 29, 2010
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Friday, January 22, 2010
Monday, January 18, 2010
een sneeuw
Een sneeuw ligt in den morgen vroeg
onder de muur aan, moe en goed
beschut en een arm kind komt toe
en staat en ziet en met zijn voet
gaat het dan schrijven over dit
prachtige vlak en schuifelt licht
bezonnen en loopt door, zijn mond
trilt in het donker klein gezicht.
-J.H. Leopold,1897-
Friday, January 15, 2010
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Sunday, January 10, 2010
burn book burn
Metro, 5th January, 2010
Pensioners burn books for warmth
Volunteers have reported that ‘a large number’ of elderly customers are snapping up hardbacks as cheap fuel for their fires and stoves. Temperatures this week are forecast to plummet as low as -13ºC in the Scottish Highlands, with the mercury falling to -6ºC in London, -5ºC in Birmingham and -7ºC in Manchester as one of the coldest winters in years continues to bite.
Workers at one charity shop in Swansea, in south Wales, described how the most vulnerable shoppers were seeking out thick books such as encyclopaedias for a few pence because they were cheaper than coal. One assistant said: ‘Book burning seems terribly wrong but we have to get rid of unsold stock for pennies and some of the pensioners say the books make ideal slow-burning fuel for fires and stoves. A lot of them buy up large hardback volumes so they can stick them in the fire to last all night.’
A 500g book can sell for as little as 5p, while a 20kg bag of coal costs £5.Since January 2008, gas bills have risen 40 per cent and electricity prices 20 per cent, although people over 60 are entitled to a winter fuel allowance of between £125 and £400.
Jonathan Stearn, energy expert for Consumer Focus, said: ‘If pensioners are taking such desperate measures to heat their homes it is shocking. With low wholesale prices and increasing profit margins, there is clearly room for energy companies to make price cuts immediately.’ Ruth Davison, of the National Housing Federation, said: ‘The spiralling cost of energy means heating homes has become a luxury rather than a necessity for many people – particularly the elderly, low paid and unemployed.’
gezien op DE PAPIEREN MAN
Friday, January 8, 2010
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
zeezucht
De goden zijn kwetsbaar
Zij sterven uit
Al zijn ze nog zo vruchtbaar
Wij zien het gebeuren
Er rest ons nog de herinnering
aan rozen, aan Ensor zijn baard
de geur van seringen
het gerucht van de ransuil
de lucht van frambozen
de Bloemencorso
een litho van Spilliaert
de IJslandvaart
Sehnsucht ?
Zeezucht
-Hugo Claus, 2002-
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Friday, January 1, 2010
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