Rob Schouten leest de levens en gedichten van Rogi Wieg, Joost Zwagerman en Wim Brands.

Paulien Cornelisse in De Volksrant 21-9-22

Interesting piece from the New Yorker about John Barker and his research into 'psychiatric orchids' in the UK in the 60s.

After the death of the Velvet Underground front man, two archivists and his widow, Laurie Anderson, discovered a mysterious sealed package from 1965. Inside was treasure: never-before-heard, folky versions of “Heroin” and other classics.

This is quite an annoying article, or make that 'advertisement for a book', from The Guardian 20-9-22. It is hard to imagine how you could fill up a whole book with this drivel. The fad of Stoicism will pass just like the fad of Zen and dare I say it, Catholicism, and like all of those it can pretty much be summed up with : Try to not want what you want — what a revelation! But the Stoics might add : try to not not want that which you have to have.

Nick van Tilburg over o.a. de avond in Friesland toen Reve te veel wijn dronk en Simon Vinkenoog op zijn bek timmerde en een gedicht over god voordraagde.

seven neurochemicals — what they do...

In 1947 the Dutch writer Gerard Reve published The Evenings, which would become the most famous postwar novel in the Netherlands.

from 'why be happy when you can be normal?'

De onderzoekers van zorgkenniscentrum Nivel denken dat de stijging in ieder geval deels veroorzaakt is door de impact die de coronapandemie op jongeren heeft gehad.

Two therapy memoirs by Lucy Freeman, an overlooked mental health pioneer, remind us of the value of slow, convoluted therapy

‘When I realised there was going to be an announcement about her death, I changed into black and waited. She deserved that. Part of us goes with her’

Albert Woodfox endured 43 years in solitary confinement, believed to be more than any other inmate in the history of the United States. He was locked in a 6ft by 9ft cell for 23 hours a day. For the remaining hour he was permitted to walk around a fenced-in concrete yard while shackled. He was mocked, beaten and tear-gassed by guards who subjected him to invasive daily strip searches. To bring the smallest semblance of variety into his days, Woodfox alternated between eating breakfast standing up or sitting down.

Hypnopompic hallucinations are dreams you actually see, while awake. The dreaming brain’s slow-wave patterns persist even while other parts of the mind wake up, allowing dream images to “slip into the world around you”.

Het gaat goed in Nederland, en voor zover het niet goed gaat, wordt gelukkig overwogen wetten te maken, al kunnen die helaas niet worden gehandhaafd. 😄

The best question was : What is ego death and why do you all want it so bad? which makes Michael laugh quite a bit.

Wenn du mich siehst, dann weine

Plus at no added cost, everything you've always wanted to know about The Dawn of Everything but were afraid to ask.

This could be a much better article than it is.

ha. well there goes that idea.

Lieke Marsman bedacht het woord ‘vertraagtaal’, volgens Sophie van der Stap een neologisme waarin de tragiek van dit tijdsgewricht is samengevat.

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“If this were real, you would have some sort of emotion instead of standing there like a rock. Do you want to feel something? Do you want to feel something real? That’s sad. You never will.”

A report from the Kingdom of the Sick by Hatty Nestor.

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Another person who was there when there was a there there, is no longer here.

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Zarathustra : The individual can experience himself only at the end of his wandering.

“Death makes human beings seem like very small containers that are packed so densely we can only be aware of a fraction of what’s inside us from moment to moment.”