Sunday, June 10, 2007

BBQ in Sinchon

Summer in Seoul 2007!

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

The Amazing Gender Genie

The gender genie predicts the gender of the author. Give it a try: bookblog.net/gender/genie.php

Monday, April 30, 2007

Mokpo 2 (April 2007)








die dood van ‘n digter

in ‘n kamer in nagoya

in ‘n besonders raserige wyk

(waar hy jare lank engels onderrig het)

het ‘n onbekende afrikaanse digter

(onverwags)

in ‘n laatnag-oomblik

van sombere stilte

in die arms van ‘n onsen geisja beswyk


soos die ink in sy ongeskrewe outobiografie

het hy na ‘n verloop van veertig jaar

eenvoudig (uit sy menswees) verdamp …


ek het onsigbaar geword!

so het hy op die vooraand van sy laaste reis

- ten aanskoue van ‘n paar muskiete op sy badkamerspieël –

gejuig!


Eureka

?

dalk het hy nooit vantevore ‘n gedig neergepen het nie

tot vandag toe is sy gedigte onopspoorbaar


aan ‘n tydlose gehoor getuig

daarvan kan die stom sterre oor die stille oseaan

maar die digwerk in sy kop was altyd daar

naskrif

Sunday, April 01, 2007

South Africa: Transformation or Liquidation?

"The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history, Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster."

Historian Milan Hübl as quoted to Milan Kundera in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Sunday, March 25, 2007

Seoul

Picture of my Seoul Apartment

Thursday, March 08, 2007

Disengagement ... Part 2

Okay! I will recover this blog. Even if I have to pour cold water over it and practice mouth-to-mouth on. I will engage again ... Just wait and see!

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

I disengage

Disengagement imminent.