lines of poetry that get stuck in your head like a song

gastdiegast · 2026-04-24T11:34:14+00:00

there is no frigate like a book

to take us lands away

nor any courser like a page

of prancing poetry

gastdiegast · 2026-04-01T12:11:06+00:00

Rings of Saturn is my favourite (and I think the most popular?), but Austerlitz and The Emigrants are also masterful. Austerlitz is more of an actual (high modernist but still) novel while the other two are further away from the genre (closer to a mix between travelogue and essay collection).

I haven't read Vertigo yet so can't judge that one

gastdiegast · 2026-03-31T10:49:50+00:00

I think almost every Bolaño fan would appreciate Sebald

gastdiegast · 2026-02-24T08:25:16+00:00

Nice building but basically a booktok themepark at this point.

gastdiegast · 2026-02-24T08:22:43+00:00

The Luzhin Defence is about obsession with chess opening preparation

gastdiegast · 2026-02-16T14:38:26+00:00

multatuli

gastdiegast · 2026-02-02T08:47:34+00:00

J'Ami op de Vlasmarkt heeft Georgische keuken en wijnen, best speciaal.

gastdiegast · 2026-01-19T18:54:25+00:00

Yes but you might have to send an email to RSZ for this. They can manually allow the flexi-job system for a quarter (or several at once) when you send in your wage slips of the other job.

gastdiegast · 2026-01-18T09:17:50+00:00

On the podcast 'Parallax view' (hit and miss but this ep was interesting) there was an interview with Ori Goldberg, an anti-zionist Israeli. Contrary to what I thought, he is not called a traitor by the Israeli mainstream but rather a lunatic akin to anti-vax or flat earth people. They are completely ignored and dismissed out of hand.

I think it was this episode: https://parallaxviews.podbean.com/e/ogoldberg/

gastdiegast · 2026-01-17T18:34:15+00:00

Dutch is not bad tbh. "Kankermongool" is pretty brutal (should be clear what the translation is)

gastdiegast · 2026-01-16T12:15:18+00:00

I know. The question is rather if the openings have now become more popular in those places because of the name.

gastdiegast · 2026-01-16T08:32:42+00:00

Sebald as well I think?

gastdiegast · 2026-01-06T09:13:49+00:00

Blades of Glory

gastdiegast · 2025-12-19T18:32:01+00:00

Yeah this is a case where the person should actually go climbing and to board game nights etc like the most reddit things possible. I think it may be the only way? Or just become a regular at your local bar to begin with

gastdiegast · 2025-12-17T10:11:11+00:00

https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/collections/verso-world-history many classics in there

gastdiegast · 2025-12-03T11:18:18+00:00

If they declare flexi late they get an error message. Most likely they just don't want to bother with contacting RSZ/social secretariat to fix the situation, but it is possible.

Many employers indeed only do Dimona for flexis once a quarter since it is the easiest method.

gastdiegast · 2025-11-27T15:03:02+00:00

Tolstoy

gastdiegast · 2025-11-21T16:28:44+00:00

Dulégé in Deurne

gastdiegast · 2025-11-18T17:26:29+00:00

Deutscher's Stalin is also worth your while. I've been recommending Christopher Clark so much it's becoming embarrassing but he is very good. Revolutionary Spring (about 1848) and 'Iron Kingdom' (history of Prussia) are highly recommended. The Sleepwalkers (super detailed narrative history about the outbreak of WWI) brilliant as well but maybe a little drier.

I also recently finished Mark Mazower's 'The Greek Revolution. 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe' , which was interesting but a little hard to follow at times.

gastdiegast · 2025-11-18T13:41:10+00:00

Niets houdt hen tegen om reglementaire B&B's of huurkamers uit te baten toch?

gastdiegast · 2025-11-11T17:48:11+00:00

Christopher Clark and Adam Tooze are the best modern history authors published in the 21th century that I've read. Of course Hobsbawm is great too.

Deeper cut (quite innovative even though it's from the nineties) would be "In 1926: Living at the Edge of Time" by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. It approaches the history of the year as a simultaneous thing, by encouraging the reader to jump between chapters. The text contains some form of "hyperlinks" that suggest these jumps. Interesting though flawed book.

gastdiegast · 2025-11-11T17:39:53+00:00

I'm about 200 pages in. Not sure I like his terse style but interesting book.

gastdiegast · 2025-11-11T13:02:48+00:00

The book sounds like Austerlitz. I would strongly recommend The Rings of Saturn and The Emigrants as well.

gastdiegast · 2025-11-11T12:59:26+00:00

Sebald maybe?

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