Pumpernickel – the Stoss

Het zijn fijne tijden voor de Gesamtkunstenaar!

Paul Snoek is een communistisch dichter die een vroegtijdige dood mocht genieten, een eer die meer communistische kunstenaars en schrijvers ten dele mocht vallen in ons Vrije Westen. Ik schrijf over hem in zowel ‘Gedichten om te Lezen in het Donker’ alsook ‘De Eeuwige Ontgroening’, waarin ik zijn dood en zijn vreemde literaire ontvangst onderzoek.

Ik heb zijn verzamelde werk en Paul Snoek had vast nooit verwacht dat hij ooit nog eens in een punknummer zou belanden, de vertaling die ik van het gedicht maakte, altans.

Pumpernickel

The mountains smell of sour bread.
At ground level, the mountains smell of bread
I breathe like a wooden woodsman
and blow blue flour out of my eyes.

I knead a certain dough in my belly
and climb over screaming gravel rivers
clogged by the damaged marrow fishes
I even hear an ant contest here.

I feel no love in the body earth.
I feel many kettles boiling boulders,
they squeeze my hands into clay of regret,
a gnawing hunger, hours deep within me.

Het kunstwerk maakte ik met Dalle3, Photoshop en Leonardo. Dat zijn doorgaans de 3 design tools nu
die ik voor bijna alles gebruik.

Het werkt wonderwel goed als punknummer, vind ik. Omdat ikzelf de mastering doe kan ik opletten dat het een beetje rauw blijft klinken en niet alsof er een hele lading glue over het nummer is gelegd.

The Stoss is maar een eigenaardig gezelschap. Bovenstaand nummer, bijvoorbeeld, is dat poezie?
Ik vind eigenlijk van wel.

Op deze speel ik een butterfly piano mee (en nog meer, en ook de mastering, etc etc)

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About the author

Martijn Benders has published twenty-six books, eighteen of which are in Dutch. Critics such as Komrij and Gerbrandy have hailed him as one of the greatest talents of his time. He has also written three philosophical works, one of which is in English and focuses on the Amanita Muscaria, the Fly Agaric. Publishing on the international platform of The Philosophical Salon, he has also gained international recognition as one of the most remarkable thinkers from the Netherlands.

Books

There exists a considerable group of leftist individuals who vigorously opposed the prevailing coronavirus narrative, including some of the world’s leading philosophers, such as Agamben and Kacem. However, this stance was heavily censored and vilified by what is referred to as ‘neocon-left’ or ‘woke-left’, as something associated solely with what they deem ‘far-right’. In my book, I discuss the reasons behind these actions, the underlying motives, and how this is emblematic of a new form of fascism aimed at seizing power permanently.

The middle section of the book is dedicated to poetry. It features a beautiful selection of poems from the Mediterranean region, by poets from Turkey and Greece, who have been imprisoned and tortured by the regime.

The final part of my book is a manifesto against literary nihilism, as manifested in the Literature Fund. It reveals how this fund is dominated by a group of Christians and ‘wokies’, which is undesirable in a free society.

Amanita Muscaria – The Book of the Empress is an exceptional work that sets a new benchmark in the realm of mycophilosophy. While one might be tempted to classify the book within the domain of Art History, such a categorization would fail to capture its true essence.

Amanita Muscaria – The Book of the Empress – De Kaneelfabriek, 2023

You don’t have time to read this, but that’s because you are no longer human. If anything remained of the original person within you, the old mycelia of childhood, you would learn a great deal from this book. In fact, its magical knowledge might become your most valuable possession. This is a book about human imagination and how it fell into the iron grip of transdimensional cockroaches. Additionally, it offers magical tips to significantly improve your life and time acceleration. M.H.H. Benders also takes a light-hearted yet scathing look at the entirety of Dutch literature. What more could you want?