Category: Psychosupersum

This article is based on this dutch article of Martijn Benders The Devil has always played a kind of taskmaster role in Tarot. In the Rider Waite Tarot, you see a giant goat that has enslaved humanity. Once again, a brilliant choice by Veronique to make the bagworm moth, which lives on the tea plant,…

This article is based on this Dutch article of Martijn Benders To Create a Polder The Tower is usually depicted as a kind of destructive card, a sort of eye that destroys a man-made tower with lightning. God bringing down the Tower of Babel. In Veronique Hogervorst’s Butterfly Tarot, the Tower is the blood drop…

This article is based on this Dutch article of Martijn Benders Yesterday I had a reading at Salon de Hodbomont in the northern Ardennes, at a gathering of Libertarians, a society to which I myself belong. I read a few poems that held symbolic value for me concerning “The Free Will,” the theme of the…

This article is based on this dutch article of Martijn Benders ### Diseased Positivistic Review Culture I am still working on the legal basis for the case on October 22nd. Here’s a little preview regarding that ludicrous system that officials devised for writers, resulting in a 90% positive review culture that truly destroys literature: *The…

This article is based on this Dutch article of Martijn Benders Two pages entwined in dialogue once more: The first image is my own, while the second is a poem by Parra hastily scribbled alongside it. After the “Journal without Difficult Words,” the inevitable next step is the “Poetry Collection without Difficult Words” and ultimately,…

This article is based on this Dutch article of Martijn Benders There exists a peculiar silence, a whitewashed chasm in the poetic heritage of the Western world. A silence that screams when one seeks the few voices that have written about Fela Kuti. Fela, the African giant, whose music and resistance stormed through the world,…

[This article is based on this Dutch article of Martijn Benders](https://martijnbenders.substack.com/p/wat-verzeepte-regels) I had a particularly fruitful morning, poetically speaking: I wrote a very good conceptual poem about art, and also the above protest poem that addresses something that has been bothering me for quite some time: exorbitant profits on books—in this case, charging 60 dollars…

This article is based on this Dutch article of Martijn Benders: https://martijnbenders.substack.com/p/een-blik-op-mijn-nieuwe-dichtbundel Alright, the site wetten.nl has been inaccessible all day. Have they taken it offline to prevent people from verifying information? Or is it overloaded due to heavy traffic? Mysteries, mysteries. Given that civil servants apparently enjoy this type of poetry and prefer leaving…

This article is based on this Dutch article by Martijn Benders. Poets are, in reality, generally terribly lazy people. Not because they don’t try diligently to ‘prove’ their superiority on paper (as if anyone would care), but because you can find thousands of types of beautiful mushrooms that no poet has ever wished to write…

This article is based on this Dutch article of Martijn Benders ### A Serious Form of Plagiarism Bertus Dijk died in 2005, ten years after the unpleasant Trouw review in which his philosophy book was utterly trashed in a rather absurd way: the entire book was described as a kind of “Private Moment” of a…

This article is based on this Dutch article of Martijn Benders Portugal, Haven of Kale The arrival of Bertus Dijk’s first book brought a flood of childhood memories. Even then, I found Portugal to be a dark country, the darkest I had ever visited in my youth. It wasn’t until 1975 that the merciless church…

This article is based on this Dutch article of Martijn Benders By now, I have most of the books by Albertus Dijk (1924-2005) on order. At the time of the philosophical critique in Trouw of his philosophy book, the man was already seventy years old and was dubbed “a disgruntled student” in that review by…