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January 13, 2007

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A Touch of the Dexia Tower

“Touch” is een interactieve architectuur installatie door LAb[au] die sinds 26 december en nog tot 15 januari dagelijks te zien is op de Dexia Toren (van de architecten Samyn/Jaspers/Eyers) op het Rogierplein in Brussel. Ik ben heel enthousiast over die 145 meter hoge Dexia Toren (gebouwd op de plaats van de gesloopte Martini Toren), die [...]

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Books

The Humbling Philip Roth

A long day’s journey into night. All life’s performances — talent, love, sex, hope, energy, reputation, memory and confidence — are stripped off as the protagonist walks offstage into a collosal collapse, a terrifying meltdown, into that “most unreal of all things”: suicide. The Humbling is the story of a retired actor struggling to summon [...]

Reflections in a Golden Eye Carson McCullers

Reflections in a Golden Eye is a chilling portrait of six people who make varying degrees of individual claims to identity and individual belong. Romantic imaginative repressed characters experience tragedies because of sensual, self-centered, conforming characters. It is a novel about the fragility of normalcy. The setting is that of an army post — a [...]

Poor Things Alisdair Gray

Weather reports show that 29th June 1882 was abnormally hot and sultry. At sunset most Glaswegians were disturbed by a noise whose cause was discussed in the local press through the following fortnight. Most folk assumed it has an industrial origin and came from very far away. At Saracen Cross in the north-west folk though [...]