As you may have read in our 25th issue, I am dealing with the affliction that is called “I Cannot Seem To Get Through Wuthering Heights” (noteworthy: some of my friends shame me terribly because of this). As I will be attempting to read the Brontë sister’s novel for the fourth time this summer, IContinue reading “Erasure Poem – Wuthering Heights”
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Books to Read To Help You Deal with Death, A Little Bit
When I was a kid, I was terrified of death, which was slightly peculiar, as the topic of death was not an unfamiliar one in my family. My mother is a pastor and besides church services and weddings, she often leads funeral services, about which she shares stories often enough. On the other hand, thatContinue reading “Books to Read To Help You Deal with Death, A Little Bit”
From the Books to the Social Justice Warriors: The Muggles of Dumbledore’s Army
We all know that there is something about books that changes you – perhaps only for a little while, when you are reading the book. In other cases the influence of a book, or several books, stretches much farther than “just” the appreciation for a story. Sometimes, books activate people to do great things –Continue reading “From the Books to the Social Justice Warriors: The Muggles of Dumbledore’s Army”
Interview: On Fictional Languages and They Should Pay Us For This
“Valar morghulis.” This phrase may be familiar to you, if you have watched a season or four of the television series Game of Thrones or read a book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series. It is a phrase from a language called ‘High Valyrian’, and it is translated as “all men mustContinue reading “Interview: On Fictional Languages and They Should Pay Us For This”
Forever Alone, or Not, And Everybody Is Pretty Fucking Fine With That
Do you have a favourite love story? You probably do, as we all are spoon-fed love stories from the moment we first saw the outside world. Romantic love, differing from other ‘kinds’ of love, such as platonic love, is a major theme in a great amount of songs, books and movies. Not to mention commercials,Continue reading “Forever Alone, or Not, And Everybody Is Pretty Fucking Fine With That”
Higher Education is Mental
While Yentl wrote about the over-sensitivity and the tendency to romanticize melancholy that seems to apply to our generation, I’d like to write about what also seems to be a big issue for people around twenty. Perhaps it goes hand in hand, or little finger in little finger, with the over-sensitivity that we were raised with,Continue reading “Higher Education is Mental”
Restricted Area: Derogatory Words
N.B.: racial slurs and homo-/transphobic slurs are used for demonstration and explanation in this article. As children and teenagers we hear often enough that words do not just have meaning: they can also hurt, although some songs and stories may claim the opposite. If you’re lucky, you’ll experience little of the negative power that wordsContinue reading “Restricted Area: Derogatory Words”
Ghent and Where to Find Books
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a book lover in possession of just as much as any fortune, must be in want of independent book stores. And even if a book lover has to eat at their parents’ for the rest of the month because their bank account has less than a euro inContinue reading “Ghent and Where to Find Books”
A Rough Guide to Not-Being An Annoying Tourist in Amsterdam
There are not many things I hate in this world. Although there may be quite some things I cannot stand, I try to be an emotional pacifist on a daily basis. Unfortunately, people do things that make me lose my inner Ghandi. That doesn’t mean I punch people, but sometimes I really, really want to.Continue reading “A Rough Guide to Not-Being An Annoying Tourist in Amsterdam”
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