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Traveling and Writing
This website is about traveling and writing. Being on the move and being emotionally moved. Two different but interconnected things. Spotting places and losing your heart. Temples, pyramids, cities and ruins, forests and mountains, valleys and rivers, volcanoes and lakes, daily life in the streets, the world as habitat for writing.
Read on: In the year 2000
The Author
Derk Cools was born in 1939 in Den Haag / The Haque, the Netherlands. He got his degree in social geography and economics at the University of Utrecht(1958). As a civil servant with the Ministry of Economic Affairs, he developed expertise in regional (economic) planning at home and abroad. In 1994, he retired and moved to the Netherlands Antilles, the island of Curacao. Read on: Since 1995, he traveled
Down to earth
This week I wrote a review about my book Zeven Dagen in de Baliemvallei (see boek besprekingen of this website). The book was written and published ( lulu) in 2009. Looking back, I missed a concise review. I call the book a geography of the senses. I don't speak a Papuan language, but we share an existential experience. A kind of awareness of rivers and woods, nature and gardening, of the sound and the fury.
Stoner
John Edwards Williams
At the same time I read the book Stoner written by John Edwards Williams. A totally different book, a classic novel of a professional teacher of English at the univversity of Missouri. It is a spectacular literary work about the life of an ordinary man who loves his profession of teaching. In my view is Stoner a modern Epicurist, a man of moderation and sobriety, a man sticking to his ideals.
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