Month: March 2025

This article is based on this Dutch article of Martinus Benders: https://martijnbenders.substack.com/p/weerwoord-tegen-de-gemenerd Counterargument to the Mean-Spirited Man Yesterday, a mean-spirited man appeared here, pretending that my interpretation of the word ‘demonstration’ was somehow not ‘scientific’ enough. Coincidentally, I also made a song about that etymology yesterday: Of course, there are always people who insist it’s…

This article is based on this Dutch article of Martinus Benders: https://martijnbenders.substack.com/p/er-duiken-weer-enzovoortellipsi-op — Are Enzovoortellipsi Emerging Again? What an unparalleled pleasure, what a literary triumph to once again wander through the lush gardens of Dutch-language poetry on the digital pages of Neerlandistiek! And behold, like a radiant fountain of genius, the work of Esohe Weyden,…

This article is based on this Dutch article of Martinus Benders: https://martijnbenders.substack.com/p/via-via-contact-met-pretbescherming Via via contact with pleasure protection Night of Poetry Tonight is the Night of Poetry which thrives on stage, in Utrecht, Tivoli Vredenburg. But yesterday I stood by a water basin in the forest park in Lokeren. With the back of my hand,…

This article is based on this Dutch article of Martinus Benders: https://martijnbenders.substack.com/p/de-vloekplaten-van-de-prinsessenkast **The Curse Panels of the Princess Wardrobe** A major downside of translating your own work is being constantly confronted with your own traumas. Of course, in Piranha, I had already referred to the bulk of literary criminals by abbreviations (because I didn’t want…

This article is based on this Dutch article of Martinus Benders: https://martijnbenders.substack.com/p/de-schrijver-als-pistekenpaal-voor The Writer as a Marker Pole for the Cynical Bureaucrats of Information Management Early in the morning, hard at work. I have now put my entire site in Italian. My resolution to no longer publish in Dutch thus takes concrete shape: although I…

This article is based on this Dutch article of Martinus Benders: https://martijnbenders.substack.com/p/twee-werken-van-can-yucel TWO WORKS BY CAN YÜCEL Friends Are Like Rivers Friends are like rivers: some have little water, others a lot. With one, only your hands get wet, with another, your soul is washed from head to toe. There are people covered with water…

This article is based on this Dutch article of Martinus Benders: https://martijnbenders.substack.com/p/ark-oorbellen-waaier-in-de-slaap Ark, Earrings, Fan, In the Sleep What makes the translation project into Italian so enjoyable is that I am working at a very relaxed pace of ten pages per day while also engaging three LLMs to better familiarize myself with Italian literature by…