Jotie T’Hooft, Charles Simic, Pieter Boskma, Jan Drees, Bulat Okudzhava, Leopold Andrian

 

De Vlaamse dichter en schrijver Jotie T’Hooft werd geboren in Oudenaarde op 9 mei 1956. Zie ook mijn blog van 9 mei 2009 en ook mijn blog van 9 mei 2010.

 

 

En wat dan?

 

Op een dag zal ik weg zijn en
wat dan? Verdwenen zonder een
teken te geven of te nemen en
het puin dat ik achterlaat is
niet langer lachwekkend.
Want wie als ik nooit heeft
gebouwen laat niets achter dan
verwachting en verwarring en
wat dan?

Wellicht in uw herinnering zal ik
stollen verstijven, niet lang meer
blijven maar verbleken tot verleden
en wat toen? Te doen?
‘Het was waar’ zult gij zeggen ‘hij speelde
met woorden als geen ander maar wat
heeft dat te betekenen.’ Zo bleek
zal ik zijn.

In u…

en wat dan…?

 

 

 

Toerisme

 

We zagen de spraakwatervallen van Speed,
hangende tuinen, verre sterrebeelden
die toch nabijer dan medereizigers waren.

In een bus vol naasten bezochten we
en werden we bezocht door nachtmerries,
visioenen van heiligen en engelen
zongen ons doof en we ontwaakten
in hotel Harmonie.

Twee spiegels, tegenover elkaar geplaatst
boden ons een oneindig perspektief.

En toch, dacht ik, er moet meer zijn.

 

 

 

 

Jotie T’Hooft (9 mei 1956 – 6 oktober 1977)

 

 

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Alan Bennett, Lucian Blaga, Mona Van Duyn, Gamal al-Ghitani, Richard Adams, James Barrie, Pitigrilli

 

De Britse schrijver en acteur Alan Bennett werd geboren op 9 mei 1934 in Armley in Leeds, Yorkshire. Zie ook mijn blog van 9 mei 2007 en ook mijn blog van 9 mei 2008 en ook mijn blog van 9 mei 2009 en ook mijn blog van 9 mei 2010.

 

Uit: The Clothes They Stood Up In

 

“Perhaps they wrapped the stereo in the carpet,” said Mrs. Ransome.
Mr. Ransome shuddered and said her fur coat was more likely, whereupon Mrs. Ransome started crying again.
It had not been much of a Così. Mrs. Ransome could not follow the plot and Mr. Ransome, who never tried, found the performance did not compare with the four recordings he possessed of the work. The acting he invariably found distracting. “None of them knows what to do with their arms,” he said to his wife in the interval. Mrs. Ransome thought it probably went further than their arms but did not say so. She was wondering if the casserole she had left in the oven would get too dry at Gas Mark 4. Perhaps 3 would have been better. Dry it may well have been but there was no need to have worried. The thieves took the oven and the casserole with it.
The Ransomes lived in an Edwardian block of flats the color of ox blood not far from Regent’s Park. It was handy for the City, though Mrs. Ransome would have preferred something farther out, seeing herself with a trug in a garden, vaguely. But she was not gifted in that direction. An African violet that her cleaning lady had given her at Christmas had finally given up the ghost that very morning and she had been forced to hide it in the wardrobe out of Mrs. Clegg’s way. More wasted effort. The wardrobe had gone too.
They had no neighbors to speak of, or seldom to. Occasionally they ran into people in the lift and both parties would smile cautiously. Once they had asked some newcomers on their floor around to sherry, but he had turned out to be what he called “a big band freak” and she had been a dental receptionist with a timeshare in Portugal, so one way and another it had been an awkward evening and they had never repeated the experience. These days the turnover of tenants seemed increasingly rapid and the lift more and more wayward
. People were always moving in and out again, some of them Arabs.”

 

 

 

Alan Bennett (Armley, 9 mei 1934)

 

 

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