Sunday, June 10, 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
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
naskrifSunday, 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
Historian Milan Hübl as quoted to Milan Kundera in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Sunday, March 25, 2007
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!