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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

12 februari 2016

Picture or Drawing

Portrait as an old man
Readers prefer pictures? Pictures prefer readers? Is this a picture or a drawing? What's the difference? Who reads today an essay? For example, an essay about writing in exile? Or: travel with Kafka and Winterson. Or a book called a novel or a novel called a book? For example Charlie Bloem subtitled as a detective The Vandalsky Papers?  Readers prefer stories not novels?
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