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“A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung out into the cosmic brutality without hesitation.”
― Essays og Epistler
― Essays og Epistler

“I know
you and I
are not about poems or
other sentimental bullshit
but I have to tell you
even the way
you drink your coffee
knocks me the fuck out.”
―
you and I
are not about poems or
other sentimental bullshit
but I have to tell you
even the way
you drink your coffee
knocks me the fuck out.”
―
“The lesson for this Round, as we shall hear time and again, is that each generation inhabits a different acoustic universe, constituted by different musics and memories of sound, by different thicknesses of walls and densities of traffic, by different means of manufacture and broadcast, by different diets and ear-damaging diseases, by different proportions and preponderances of metal rattling in kitchens, clanging on the streets, or ringing in the ( differently polluted) air above.”
― Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang & Beyond
― Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang & Beyond

“They say it is possible to see stars from the bottom of a well when the sun is shining.”
― The Road to Oxiana
― The Road to Oxiana
“De vogel is niet zomaar een gevederde vriend, maar hij is een heraut uit het paradijs.”
― Dorrestijns Vogelgids
― Dorrestijns Vogelgids
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