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    The Good, The Bad and The Innocent

    by  • 11 March, 2003 • Biography • 0 Comments

    Does Time fly? In some sense it does. It hovers in circles, A bird of prey, Above us. This chapter requires its own preface. However, the preface must follow the chapter proper. Isn’t that what friendships are like, the explanatory bit always following the existential bit? And that is how this biography is to...

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    Knock knock knock knock knock…

    by  • 13 February, 2003 • Biography • 0 Comments

    The programmer begins in gladness… Well, the day is done. I’ve made my money and eaten my bread dipped in olive oil, so I can begin. That day, that day in the fall of 1984, in Maastricht, Limburg, The Netherlands, had just begun. I had come from my flat on the Hondestraat to my...

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    Preface

    by  • 8 February, 2003 • Biography • 0 Comments

    Joseph Conrad, a fellow not unlike Luc Dubois, adopted the practice of writing prefaces to his novels. I have often wished other writers would do the same. A preface allows the reader to understand the motivation of the writer and otherwise gives the reader the context in which the novel was conceived and provides,...

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