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Stories are fluid: |
Amsterdam, 2026-06-22
Haroun and The Sea of Stories (Salman Rushdie) - 1990
Fairy tale, chapters 4 - 9
Collection: Sludge
Tribute to: Rushdie, Salman
| They got married and | |
| had a child, we don't need to -- | |
| argue about that. | |
| Ze trouwden, kregen | Das Paar hatte dann |
| een kind, daar hoeven we niet -- | ein Kind, darüber müssen -- |
| over te strijden. | wir uns nicht streiten. |
Amsterdam, 2025-11-11
Yorick (Salman Rushdie) - 1982
Story, in: Encounter, also published in the collection "East, West" (1994, section "West") - Interpretation of the story of Hamlet
Collection: Shadows
Tribute to: Rushdie, Salman
| Myths are real, they are | |
| stronger than facts, tradition -- | |
| creating stories. | |
| Mythen zijn sterker | Mythen sind stärker |
| dan feiten, ze creëren -- | als Fakten, sie erschaffen -- |
| nieuwe verhalen. | neue Geschichten. |
Amsterdam, 2024-08-10
The Servants and the Snow (Iris Murdoch) - 1970
Play, Act Two - Iris Murdoch uses the myth of 'ius primae noctis' (right of the first night / droit du seigneur) in this play
Collection: Dreams of love
Tribute to: Murdoch, Iris
| Heaven and hell are | |
| just stories, so be careful -- | |
| what your beliefs are! | |
| Hemel en hel zijn | Himmel und Hölle |
| ook maar verhalen, pas op -- | sind nur Geschichten, pass auf -- |
| met wat je gelooft! | was du glauben willst! |
Amsterdam, 2024-07-06
"It ain't necessarily so" (Ira Gershwin / George Gershwin) - 1935
Song (Sportin' Life, lyrics Ira Gershwin) from the opera (libretto [1935] and novel [1925] and play "Porgy" [1927] by Edwin DuBose Heyward)
Collection: Em Brace
Tribute to: Gershwin, Ira; DuBose Heyward, Edwin
Composer: Gershwin, George
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The envoy was summoned |
Amsterdam, 2024-04-30
Philological study "De eerste editie van Paulus" ("The first edition of Paul", Charles Vergeer)
Envoy: the apostle Paul was an envoy of the leaders of the Orthodox Jews, the high priests Simeon 'Cephas' ('Peter', 27-44) and Jacob 'Oblias' (44-66), as the elders/presbyters/bishops of the 'Christian' believers (Greeks and Jews) in Ephesus half a century later also consider themselves envoys of faith
Letters: to the ('Christian'-)Orthodox Jews in Corinth, written from the capital of the province of Asia, Ephesus, where 200,000 people lived at the time, and where the Jews and 'Christians' had not been chased away as happened in the other cities of the Roman Empire; therefore Ephesus became the centre of Christian tradition, where the Gospels of Luke and John, the Acts of the Apostles, and the Apostolikon (the 'Missionary Sermons', later incorrectly referred to as the Pauline Epistles) originated
Soldiers: 2 Corinthians 12:7 "And lest I should boast of special revelations, I had to bear a palisade upon my weak flesh, a satanic angel to beat me down"
Collection: The King
Tribute to: Vergeer, Charles
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If I hadn't already |
Amsterdam, 2024-04-11
The reinterpreation of Paul
Zealots: [1] followers of the Way: Nazarenes, Zealots, dagger-men (sicarii), and later: jihadists, [2] the Orthodox Jews who do not recognise the emperor
John 14:6: "Jesus said to him [Thomas], I am the Way and the truth and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me."
According to legend, the Apostle Paul was beheaded in the swampy area near de Sage Springs (Aquae Salviae) outside the southern city wall of Rome
Massacred everywhere: throughout the Roman Empire, by the army, which makes no distinction between the Orthodox Jews (like Paul) and the 'anointers' (the 'Christians', as the Jews who believe that the Liberator ['Jesus'] was the Messiah, are mockingly called - a name they adopt as reappropriation)
The Christians do not focus on God's rule, but on redemption through the murdered Liberator ('Jesus') the Messiah/Christ/Anointed, which is a blasphemy for Jews like Paul
Philological studies "Paulus - Kijken in Uw lezend gezicht" ("Paul - Looking into Your Reading Face", 2012) and "Geschreven en toegeschreven" ("Scribed and Ascribed", 2013) by Charles Vergeer
Collection: The King
Tribute to: Vergeer, Charles
| Tall bite tales wander | |
| about and attach themselves -- | |
| to amputations. | |
| De rondzwervende | Umherschweifende |
| bijtverhalen hechten zich -- | Bissgeschichten heften sich -- |
| aan amputaties. | an Amputierten. |
Amsterdam, 2024-04-04
The Moor's Last Sigh (Salman Rushdie) - 1995
Novel, chapter "Bombay Central", (3-) 16
Collection: Sludge
Tribute to: Rushdie, Salman
| A golden story | |
| is not forged of sparkling truth -- | |
| It shines with deceit. | |
| Een gouden verhaal | Nicht mit Wahrheit glänzt |
| is niet gesmeed van waarheid -- | die goldene Geschichte -- |
| Het blinkt van bedrog. | sondern mit Betrug. |
Amsterdam, 2024-02-14
The Golden House (Salman Rushdie) - 2017
Novel, chapters (1-) 6 and (2-) 23
Collection: Wind
Tribute to: Rushdie, Salman
| Dressed up, my story | |
| protects me, and it also -- | |
| looks better on me. | |
| Ik kleed mijn verhaal | Meine Geschichte |
| wat aan, dat beschermt me en -- | kleide ich ein, das schützt mich -- |
| het staat me mooier. | und steht mir besser. |
Amsterdam, 2024-01-17
Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation (Rachel Cusk) - 2012
Autobiographical book, quoted by Merel Kamp in her article "Karma, lot of eigen schuld? Vertel het maar" ("Karma, fate or own fault? Just tell me"), in the NRC of January 16th, 2024
Collection: Shelter
Tribute to: Cusk, Rachel
| My life story is | |
| too thick, too big, too spacious -- | |
| You can see the lies. | |
| Mijn levensverhaal | Mein Lebensbericht |
| is te dik, te groot, te ruim -- | ist zu dick, zu groß, zu weit -- |
| Je ziet de leugens. | Man sieht die Lügen. |
Amsterdam, 2024-01-17
Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation (Rachel Cusk) - 2012
Autobiographical book, quoted by Merel Kamp in her article "Karma, lot of eigen schuld? Vertel het maar" ("Karma, fate or own fault? Just tell me"), in the NRC of January 16th, 2024
Collection: Appearances
Tribute to: Cusk, Rachel; Kamp, Merel
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Better a thrilling story |
Amsterdam, 2023-11-09
Stories that deny the events:
- The Israelites supposedly did not descend from Cain, the murderer of Abel, but from the fictitious son Seth, so that a whole line of doubles is needed up until the Flood
Ham supposedly did not rape his mother (Genesis 9:21-25), resulting in a pregnancy and the birth of Canaan, but merely saw his father (Noah) naked, who is blamed for this because he was supposedly drunk
Isaac supposedly was saved by an angel when his father wanted to kill him; therefore, offspring must be assigned to Isaac: instead of Abraham, he becomes the father of Esau and Jacob, an intervention facilitated by the fact that their mother Rebekah was much younger than Abraham (who took her as his third wife to have more sons than just Ishmael; Rebekah, like Abraham and Sarah, came from Mesopotamia, which gave Esau and Jacob a higher status than Ishmael); no details are mentioned in the Bible regarding patriarch Isaac, because he was killed as a child: his life is empty
Grand Narrative: And he [God] said: Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome (Genesis 32:29)
Collection: A Home
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Lilith was just like him - |
Amsterdam, 2022-06-13
Cain, the oldest, was called Seth by his descendants, to cover up that he committed a murder
Collection: A Home
| Grandpa likes to talk | |
| about the past, yet beware! -- | |
| maybe he's joking! | |
| Opa vertelt graag | Opa erzählt gern |
| over vroeger, maar pas op! -- | von früher, aber Vorsicht! -- |
| hij maakt ook grappen! | er macht auch Witze! |
Amsterdam, 2020-10-07
Secret Agent Grandpa (Manon Sikkel) - 2020
Collection: On the fly
Tribute to: Sikkel, Manon
Dedicated to: Lotte W
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It takes a week to travel |
Amsterdam, 2020-04-18
Residents of ancient Mecca
Collection: The Praised One
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The deed was too horrible |
Amsterdam, 2020-04-16
This passage (an angel restrains Abraham from slaughtering his son) was added later to whitewash the atrocity
Collection: A Home
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Okay, I did it, I had to drive |
Amsterdam, 2019-07-31
Odysseus and the Cyclops
Cyclops = Round-eyed
Collection: Lilith's Powers
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Only the gold and the pearls |
Amsterdam, 2019-06-28
Collection: BloodTrunk
| The grand narratives | |
| didn't really happen that way -- | |
| They are lies, true lies. | |
| Grote verhalen | Große Geschichten |
| zijn nooit zo gebeurd, leugens -- | sind nicht genau so passiert -- |
| Maar ware leugens. | Lügen, aber wahr. |
Amsterdam, 2019-05-29
Collection: The Praised One
| Hearsay can show you | |
| reality in a more -- | |
| interesting way. | |
| Van horen zeggen | Hörensagen zeigt |
| toont de werkelijkheid veel -- | einem die Wirklichkeit viel -- |
| interessanter. | interessanter. |
Amsterdam, 2018-11-12
Threshing-floor laden with confetti (Franca Treur) - 2009
Novel "Dorsvloer vol confetti", chapter You don't know what you're experiencing
Collection: Appearances
Tribute to: Treur, Franca
| All stories are true, | |
| somewhere in the world, and here -- | |
| they may happen too. | |
| Elk verhaal is waar, | Jede Geschichte |
| ergens ter wereld, en hier -- | ist wahr, irgendwo, und hier -- |
| had het ook gekund. | ist es auch möglich. |
Amsterdam, 2018-05-06
The Bible for unbelievers - The story of Abiga-il (Guus Kuijer) - 2015
"De Bijbel voor ongelovigen - Het verhaal van Abiga-il" - Abigail, the second wife of king David
Collection: Chance
Tribute to: Kuijer, Guus
| Yet this anecdote | |
| about father says little -- | |
| about who he is. | |
| De anekdote | Die Anekdote |
| over vader zegt weinig -- | über Vater sagt wenig -- |
| over wie hij is. | über ihn selbst aus. |
Amsterdam, 2017-09-19
Diary 1958-1959 (Frida Vogels) - 2006
"Dagboek 1958-1959" - October 11th, 1959, Amsterdam
Collection: Chance
Tribute to: Vogels, Frida
| For the listeners | |
| miracles become real facts: | |
| they are witnesses! | |
| Voor de luisteraars | Für die Zuhörer |
| worden wonderen feiten: | werden Wunder zu Fakten: |
| ze zijn getuigen! | sie sind ja Zeugen! |
Vaison-la-Romaine, 2016-10-10
Collection: The Praised One
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Thank God no one knows his name |
Amsterdam, 2016-03-29
Jesus = "JHWH is salvation" / "Salvation on behalf of JHWH"
Collection: The King
