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'Wat bezielt iemand om, met onderbrekingen, tien jaar lang te werken aan een roman, terwijl ze het zo duidelijk niet in zich heeft?’

Moed is het eerste vereiste voor de schrijver, zeggen de schrijvers. Voor iedere zin moet je je opnieuw zelfvertrouwen aanpraten. Want, o, de ontoereikendheid van de taal en, ach, het besef nooit volledig te worden begrepen.

A landmark study, published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, in 2006 — shows psilocybin holds promise for end-of-life distress in cancer patients.

Gerard Reve (is) op zijn best wanneer hij zich te midden van alle twijfel die zich uit in spot op een reële manier tot de wereld verhoudt. Alsof je nooit iets serieus neemt. Terwijl je alles serieus neemt. Maar je probeert alles, de hele ellende, wel tot hanteerbare, menselijke proporties terug te brengen.

The Times Friday July 08 2022

Narcissism itself is defined as an excessive interest in or admiration of oneself. It's entirely possible to be narcissistic without having the personality disorder... but what is the difference?

archived 7 Jul 2022

A dot is a dot is a dot. Hasn't he read The work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction? archived 4 Jul 2022

A menace to the unsufferable dicks that run the various self serving franchises which constitute the corrupt 'world of tennis'. But a sublime tennis player, I would say. I hope he goes all the way but he will probably self-destruct at some point, as he always does. archived 3 Jul 2022

Our quest for self-knowledge has corrupted humanity

Geef mijn portie maar aan Fikkie, maar die wil 'em waarschijnlijk ook niet.

Nice write up in The Times of this exhilarating tennis match. archived 3 Jul 2022

ah australia. here’s a story about a toilet in melbourne that princess diana didn’t want to use, even though everyone wanted her to. with pictures!

The man who who was paid four times as much as each one of The Beatles is dead

The largest route, Watling Street, ran from the ports of Kent to Viroconium, now on the site of Wroxeter in Shropshire. At the time, it was the fourth largest Roman city in Britain but it fell into decline. Today Wroxeter is a pretty village with a few hundred people in it. archived 29 Jun 2022

This confirms the country’s status as the world centre of outrageously overpriced fruit.

He gave me my first break. RIP ❤️ from i.j.oog

Adverse experiences can change future generations through epigenetic pathways

And yet ... jammer maar helaas ... The Times | archived 25 Jun 2022

Wim T. Schippers is 80

“Khat releases you from that constraint that we have to time and space."

Rohit Prasad, Amazon’s head scientist for Alexa AI said the feature could enable customers to have “lasting personal relationships” with the deceased.

Duurzame energie kenden ze in het Zuid-Hollandse Kinderdijk al heel goed. Het rijtje molens langs het water maakt het dorp tot op de dag van vandaa...

Met geruststellen zijn we sinds de oertijd bezig. De vroegst overgeleverde verhalen draaien om troosten of verklaren. Waar de wereld vandaan komt bijvoorbeeld, of dat onweer niet zozeer een doodeng en grillig natuurverschijnsel is, maar gewoon een moodswing van de dondergod. Dat als je maar goed en vooral volgens de regels leeft, je niets zal overkomen.

“Inventing a character in order to understand historical facts is like fabricating evidence. Or rather, it’s like planting false proof at a crime scene where the floor is already strewn with incriminating evidence.”

This is a terrible review but it does get one thing right : Saoirse Ronan is brilliant. The scene on the beach is completely hearbreaking.

The world we experience–which is the only one we can know–is affected by the kind of attention we pay to it. This implies that there is no simple and single, wholly mind-independent, truth.

i wonder if this would still work. it's pretty much exactly what it feels like to fly to australia in economy so...

If our evolutionary heritage in its development of consciousness limited its capacities to survival and propagation of the species, then much of the so-called ‘super-natural’ world of the noumenal is neither super nor beyond us. We are immersed in a cosmos that our brain and body for the most part filter out, exclude from access what we did not need as a species to survive in jungles, deserts, mountains, etc.