
Perfect geluk. Honderddertien verschillende versies van je favoriete hemd. Nooit meer tobben over wat je die dag ook al weer moet aantrekken.
But I'm a man-man-man, man-man-man-eaterDie zit.
and still you're surprised when I eat you
painting: direct application of pigment to a surface to produce by tones of color or of light and dark some representation or decorative arrangement of natural or imagined forms.Het prentje: Ellen de Groot, Johanna, 2007.
Uit: Facts from the Encyclopedia Yahoo Education
"For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else."
Dr. Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784.
At a dinner given in Edinburgh, when Hume was a child, the dog Pod was accused of making a foul smell. Cried young David, "Oh, do not hurt the beast. It is not Pod. It is me!" Recording the incident in her memoirs, Lady Anne Lindsay commended the child's honesty: "How very few people would take the evil odour of a stinking conduct from a guiltless Pod to wear it on their own rightful shoulders."
Uit: David Edmonds en John Eidinow, Rousseau's Dog. Two Great Thinkers at War in the Age of Enlightenment, Harper Perennial, 2006.
"Bovendien zal de Vlaamse regering in crisistijd nauwelijks kunnen uitleggen dat ze past voor een infrastructuurwerk dat op korte en halflange termijn werk biedt aan 10.000 mensen." (De Standaard, 11.02.10
De misère van kunstenaar Rik Wouters, de barones minnares van Maxim Gorki en het poëtische geflierefluit van Johan Daisne: u leest er weldra meer over in de nieuwe Zuurvrij! Verder in dit nummer geeft pastoor Basiel de Craene tips voor een geslaagd literair evenement, laat Luuk Gruwez ons weten dat de muze een trut is en onthult ene R.R. Graveson zijn ware identiteit. Vrienden dumpen leer je van André de Ridder, Elsschot daarentegen toont zich van zijn beste kant. Gastschrijfster Diane Broeckhoven heeft het over de Heilige Drievuldigheid uit haar kindertijd.
“Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.”
Max Egremont, Balfour. A Life of Arthur James Balfour, Collins, Londen, 1980.
"Balfour celebrated his entry into politics by remaining silent in the House of Commons for two years."
Max Egremont, Balfour. A Life of Arthur James Balfour, Collins, Londen, 1980.
So many young people between the prime recruiting ages of 17 and 24 cannot meet minimum standards that a group of retired military leaders is calling for more investment in early childhood education to combat the insidious effects of junk food and inadequate education. "We've never had this problem of young people being obese like we have today," said Gen. John Shalikashvili, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He calls the rising number of youth unfit for duty a matter of national security (Bron: AOL News).