Novel "An Artist of the Floating World" (1986, Kazuo Ishiguro), chapter 'November 1949'

Collection "Being my own museum"

Collection "Local traffic"

Because of armadillidiidae (pill-bugs) on the second floor of the holiday apartment building

Collection "Local traffic"

Novel "Het Bureau - Meneer Beerta" ("The Office - Mister Beerta", 1996, Han Voskuil), 1957 (page 33)

Collection "Not too bad"

Novel "Het Bureau - Meneer Beerta" ("The Office - Mister Beerta", 1996, Han Voskuil), 1957 (pages 9, 33, 758)

Collection "Not too bad"

Poem "Beweging" - 1 ("Movement" - 1, 1992, Maria van Daalen)

Collection "Unseen"

Column "Laat sommige taboes maar fijn bestaan" ("Let some taboos just remain", 2024, Josette Daemen), in the NRC of November 23rd, 2024

Collection "Unseen"

Composition "Boete", part 3: "Stoek" ("Penance", part 3: "Trac", 2023, Jan-Bas Bollen), for HyperTheremin and two organs, performed by Jan-Bas Bollen in the Organpark on March 22nd, 2025

Collection "org anp ARK" #105

Composition "Erdia Da" ("Offering to Mother Earth"), #8 from the album "Pèkisyon Funebri" ("Funeral service", 2016, MMMD [Mohammad] = Ilios and Nikos Veliotis), performed in the Organpark on April 12th, 2025 by Ilios Veliotis (oscillators), Nikos Veliotis (electronic cello), and Alex Mastichiadis ('ALEM', *****)

Collection "org anp ARK" #108

Arthur Schopenhauer on human will, in short from a passage in 'Die beiden Grundprobleme der Ethik' (1841): 'Der Mensch kann wohl [/zwar] tun, was er will, aber [er kann] nicht wollen, was er will' ('A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants')

Collection "Willegos"

Novel "Atlas shrugged"  (1957, Ayn Rand), part 3 'A is A', chapter 2 'The Utopia of Greed'

Collection "Willegos"

Novel "Het duister dat ons scheidt" (2003, "The darkness that separates us", Renate Dorrestein), part 2, 'Twaalf' ('Twelve' years old), chapter 'R is een rompertje' ('R is a rompertje [onesie]')

Collection "Old sore"

Novel "Het duister dat ons scheidt" (2003, "The darkness that separates us", Renate Dorrestein), part 2, 'Twaalf' ('Twelve' years old), chapter 'S is een spin' ('S is a spider')

Collection "Old sore"

Poem "Évian" (2017, Ghayath Almadhoun)

Évian Conference in 1938 (32 countries) on the Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria, after which the Völkischer Beobachter writes on July 13th: "Keiner will sie haben" ("Nobody wants to have them")

Personal essay "Galmende geschiedenissen" ("Echoing histories", 2025, Sinan Çankaya)

Live and let live

The mentality that minorities should adapt in cultural matters, as if integration comes down to that, is colonialist; the point of living together is living according to the rule of law, with respect for everyone's cultural customs

Collection "Truder"

Novel "De vergaderzaal" ("The conference room", 1974, Albert Alberts)

Collection "Wean Di"

Story "De dingen de baas" ("The things are the boss", 1950, Belcampo)

Collection "Wean Di"

Bertolt Brecht, quoted in the poem "Die hiefel en die fiefel" ("Ole and Axel", 2006, Antjie Krog)

Collection "Wean Di"

Column "Geef je familie nog één kans" ("Give your family one more chance", 2016, Ellen de Bruin, with a quote from Else-Marie van den Eerenbeemt), in the nrc.next of December 21st, 2016

Collection "Wean Di"

Comic strip #51 - "Heer Bommel en Vriend Vijand" ("Sir Bumble and Friend Foe", 1952-1953, Marten Toonder), tier 1794

Collection "**** & Lord"

Comic strip #70 - "Tom Poes en De Giegelgak ("Tom **** and The Gigglecackler", 1956, Marten Toonder), tier 2828

Collection "**** & Lord"

Comic strip #78 - "Heer Bommel gaat Het Overdoen" ("Sir Bumble is going To Do It Over", 1957-1958, Marten Toonder), tier 3291

Collection "**** & Lord"

Comic strip #80 - "Tom Poes en De Kwanten" ("Tom **** and The Quants", 1958, Marten Toonder), tier 3441

Collection "**** & Lord"

Comic strip #80 - "Tom Poes en De Kwanten" ("Tom **** and The Quants", 1958, Marten Toonder), tier 3443

Collection "**** & Lord"

Comic strip #81 - "Tom Poes en De beunhaas" ("Tom **** and The Fidler", 1958, Marten Toonder), tier 3463

Collection "**** & Lord"

Ghazal 323 / Ode 323, "The moon smiles upon you" (13th century, Muhammad Jalal al-Dīn Balkhi Rumi)

Collection "Willegos"

Theatre programme "Gut" ("Gosh", 2016-2017, Sanne Wallis de Vries)

Collection "Willegos"

Comic strip #104 - "Heer Bommel en De Bovenbazen" ("Sir Bumble and The Superbosses", 1963, Marten Toonder)

Stock market manipulation by United States President Trump on April 4th, 2025

Collection "**** & Lord"

Comic strip #96 - "Het boze oog" ("The Evil Eye", 1961, Marten Toonder), tier 4462

Collection "**** & Lord"

Comic strip #58 - "Tom Poes en De Spiegelaar" ("The Mirrorer", 1953-1954, Marten Toonder), tier 2107

The saying 'wie zich aan een ander spiegelt, spiegelt zich zacht' means: 'one man's fault is another man's lesson'

Collection "**** & Lord"

Comic strip #61 - "Tom Poes en De Waarzegger" ("Tom **** and The Truth Teller", 1954, Marten Toonder), tier 2310

Collection "**** & Lord"

Novel "Het duister dat ons scheidt" (2003, "The darkness that separates us", Renate Dorrestein), part 1, 'Zes' ('Six' years old), chapter 'C is een crisis' ('C is a crisis')

Collection "Old sore"

Novel "Het duister dat ons scheidt" (2003, "The darkness that separates us", Renate Dorrestein), part 1, 'Zes' ('Six' years old), chapter 'B is een brandnetel' ('B is a brandnetel [stinging nettle]')

Collection "Old sore"

Novel "Zonder genade" (2001, "Without mercy", 2004, Renate Dorrestein), part 1, 'In De Put' ('In The Dumps'), chapter 'Wat Jem altijd zei' ('What Jem always said')

Collection "Old sore"

Novel "Zonder genade" (2001, "Without mercy", 2004, Renate Dorrestein), part 3, 'Ga Terug Naar Af' ('Back To Square One'), chapter 'Wat Phinus bereikt' ('What Phinus achieves')

Collection "Old sore"

Comic strip #48 - "Tom Poes en Het Wroeg-Wezen" ("Tom **** and The Remorse-being", 1952, Marten Toonder), tier 1608

Collection "**** & Lord"

Comic strip #42 - "Tom Poes en Eh… dinges" ("Tom **** and Eh… whatever", 1950-1951, Marten Toonder), tier 1222

Collection "**** & Lord"

Novel "Ontaarde moeders" (1992, "Unnatural mothers", 1994, Renate Dorrestein), chapter 4, 'Veilig bij Moeder op schoot' ('Safe on Mother's lap')

Collection "Old sore"

Novel "Ontaarde moeders" (1992, "Unnatural mothers", 1994, Renate Dorrestein), chapter 4, 'Veilig bij Moeder op schoot' ('Safe on Mother's lap') - Bacon-wrapped ground meat: in Belgium and the Netherlands called 'slavink'

Collection "Old sore"

Comic strip #173 - "Heer Ollie en Een Bommelding" ("Sir Oliver and A Bomble-thing", 1983, Marten Toonder), tier 1387

Collection "**** & Lord"

Comic strip #171 "Heer Bommel en De Antiloog" ("Sir Bumble and The Antiliar", 1982, Marten Toonder), tier 01167

Collection "**** & Lord"

Old Chinese poem: "The drinking song of earth's sorrow", 1908, Gustav Mahler, based on the free version by Hans Bethge from 1907, after "Bei gexing" by Li Bai [701-762], in a 1705 collection

Collection "Thinkles Lusionless"

Novella "Tralievader" (1991, "Nightfather", 1994, Carl Friedman), chapter 'Greuelmärchen' (Atrocity story)

Collection "Thinkles Lusionless"

Poem by the monk ("Hoshi") Ryosen (?-828): Sabishisa ni / Yado o tachi idete / Nagamureba / Izuko mo onaji / Aki no yugure

Collection "Shelter"

Theatre play "Lichaam & Blik" ("Body & Look", 1986, Willem Jan Otten), 1st scene

Collection "Shelter"

Documentary "Ik was een kind" ("I was a child", 2025, Geertjan Lassche): the story of Anneloes van 't Licht

Until recently, a woman who made a scene about her husband's adultery could be treated for hysteria with a lobotomy or electric shocks

Princess Nyctimene ('she who stays up at night') was turned into an owl as punishment for fleeing into the forest after being ***** by her father

Nyctimene is also the name of a genus of bats

Collection "Half The Work"

Collection "Half The Work"

Air "Zeffiretti, che sussurrate" ("Solely through you, my sweet love") from the opera "Orlando finto pazzo" ("Orlando, the fake madman", 1714, RV 727, on which the 1723 air "Onde chiara che sussussurate" from the opera "Ercole su'l Termodonte" is based, RV 749.21 and 749.31 [with a second soprano as echo], Antonio Vivaldi), libretto Grazio Braccioli, based on the epic "Orlando innamorato" ("Orlando in love", 1495, Matteo Maria Boiardo) - Origille

Collection "Love Mind and Death"

Air "Vedrò con mio diletto" ("With delight I will look"), from the opera "Giustino" (Emperor "Justin", 1724, libretto Nicolò Beregan, music Antonio Vivaldi, RV 717), 1st act, 8th scene - emperor Anastasio

Collection "Love Mind and Death"

Novella "Gala" (2003, Ronald Giphart), chapter 'Elkaars nieren' ('Each other's reins')

Collection "Em Brace"