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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.
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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

08 september 2014

Sunset in the tropics


Lévi-Strauss, a cultural anthropologist, decribes a wonderful sunset in his book Sadness of the Tropics. He employs a rainbow of words for colors. Whatever magnificent picture you take, his description remains superior.  It covers the total spectrum of colors moving along the transforming sky when the sun sets. 

In zijn Trieste der Tropen beschrijft de cultureel anthropoloog Lévi-Strauss een tropische zonsondergang. Welke plaatjes je ook schiet , de beschrijving blijft superieur, omdat van minuut tot minuut de veranderende kleurschakeringen onder woorden worden gebracht.


Lévi-Strauss

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