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De Surinaamse schrijver Nardo Aluman (eig. Ronald Renardo Aloema werd geboren in Christiaankondre op 19 oktober 1946. Zie ook mijn blog van 19 oktober 2008.xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Uit: De hond en de papegaai
Het verhaal van de hond en de papegaai [kulewago] is een voorbeeld van een categorie van verhalen waarvan er talloze zijn. Ze worden vooral verteld vanwege het amusement - voor de luisteraar, maar ook voor de vertelster. In dit geval was dat wijlen La'imo (geboren ca 1893, in Langamankondre), de echtgenote van Yanumesi, die gedurende vele jaren kapitein was van Christiaankondre. La'imo overleed in 1968. Het verhaal vertelde zij, zittend temidden van een groot aantal van haar kleinkinderen.
... mohkaron amïkon tïwaiyeman, parï, penaro, isenurupiriyako, pïitono, ohko tïwaiye mandon ...
.... er waren eens, kleinkind, lang geleden, in de fabeltijd, twee jonge mannen. Broers, ze waren broers van elkaar. Vervolgens zijn ze misschien wel gaan jagen. Twee, één hond was er, hij was hun huisdier, en één papegaai. De papegaai zat op een balk van het huis. De hond lag op de grond. Ze waren gaan jagen. Eerst wisten ze van niets. Dan gaan ze weg [om te gaan jagen]. Ze gaan ver weg. Eerst gaan ze heel ver weg. Ze komen weer thuis. Hé, er was kasiri gemaakt [een van cassave gemaakte, licht alcoholische drank]. In een grote kom misschien, in een samaku [een pot van 70-80 cm hoog]. Lang geleden hadden de Indianen zulke grote potten. Ze komen weer thuis. Hé, er was kasiri gemaakt, [het stond] onder de dakrand van het huis. Dan praten ze met elkaar. Wie heeft die kasiri gemaakt; zegt hij tegen zijn oudere broer. Dat vraag ik me ook af, zegt hij. De papegaai zit nog steeds op de balk. Hij draait z'n kop heen en weer. Hij ziet z'n baas komen. De hond kwispelt met z'n staart, uit blijdschap om z'n baas. Door hen is de kasiri gemaakt.
Ze waren weer weggegaan. Nadat hun baas is weggegaan trekt de hond z'n huid uit. De papegaai legt z'n veren af. Ze gaan snel kasiri maken. De kasiri wordt door hun gemaakt. Hun kasiri is rood, dan drinken zij [de mannen] het als kasiri, het is drank. Welk wezen heeft deze kasiri gemaakt, zeggen ze. Ze denken na. Zo gebeurde het misschien driemaal. Ze gaan weer ver weg. Daarna wordt het [de drank] door hen [de mannen] opgemaakt. Ze [de huisdieren] maakten misschien maar een beetje. Dan gaan ze [de mannen] weer weg. Dan is er weer kasiri gemaakt. Ze komen thuis. Welk wezen toch heeft het gemaakt, vraag ik me af, zeggen ze. Wie toch, vrouwen zijn er niet, geen enkele, zeggen ze. De hond is er, en de papegaai, het zijn hun huisdieren. Ze kijken, de papegaai praat niet en zit op de balk. De hond ligt daar op de grond. Vanaf dat moment doen ze alsof ze weggaan. Ze gaan zich verbergen achter de stam van een grote boom. Ze willen zien of het een Indiaan is [die de kasiri maakt]. Vervolgens gaan ze weer weg.
Nardo Aluman (Christiaankondre, 19 oktober 1946)
De Amerikaanse schrijver Andrew Vachss werd geboren op 19 oktober 1942 in New York. Zie ook mijn blog van 19 oktober 2008.
Uit: Mask Market
"I'm not the client," the ferret seated across from me said. He was as thin as a garrote, with a library-paste complexion, the facial skin surrounding his veined-quartz eyes as papery as dried flowers. He was always room temperature. "You know me, Burke. I only work the middle."
"I don't know you," I lied. "You knewyou say you knewmy brother. But if you did"
"Yeah, I know he's gone," the ferret said, meeting my eyes, the way you do when you've got nothing to hide. With him, it was an invitation to search an empty room. "But you've got the same name, right? He never had any first name that I knew; so what would I call you, I meet you for the first time?"
It's impossible to actually look into my eyes, because you have to do it one at a time. One eye is a lot lighter than the other, and they don't track together anymore.
A few years ago, I was tricked into an ambush. The crossfire cost me my looks, and my partner her life. I mourn her every daythe hollow blue heart tattooed between the last two knuckles of my right hand is Pansy's tombstonebut I don't miss my face. True, it was a lot more anonymous than the one I've got now. Back then, I was a walking John Doe: average height, average weight generic lineup filler. But a lot of different people had seen that face in a lot of different places. And the State had a lot of photographs of it, toothey don't throw out old mug shots.
I'd come into the ER without a trace of ID, dropped at the door by the Prof and Clarencethey knew I was way past risking the do-it-yourself kit we kept around for gunshot wounds.
Since the government doesn't pay the freight for cosmetic surgery on derelicts, the hospital went into financial triage, no extras. So the neat, round keloid scar on my right cheek is still there, and the top of my left ear is still as flat as if it had been snipped off. And when the student surgeons repaired the cheekbone on the right side of my face, they pulled the skin so tight that it looked like one of the bullets I took had been loaded with Botox. My once-black hair is steel-gray nowit turned that shade while I was in a coma from the slugs, and never went back.
Andrew Vachss (New York, 19 oktober 1942)
De Britse schrijver Philip Pullman werd geboren op 19 oktober 1946 in Norwich als zoon van een luchtmachtofficier. Zie ook mijn blog van 19 oktober 2008.
Uit: The Golden Compass
Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen. The three great tables that ran the length of the hall were laid already, the silver and the glass catching what little light there was, and the long benches were pulled out ready for the guests. Portraits of former Masters hung high up in the gloom along the walls. Lyra reached the dais and looked back at the open kitchen door, and, seeing no one, stepped up beside the high table. The places here were laid with gold, not silver, and the fourteen seats were not oak benches but mahogany chairs with velvet cushions.
Lyra stopped beside the Master's chair and flicked the biggest glass gently with a fingernail. The sound rang clearly through the hall.
"You're not taking this seriously," whispered her daemon. "Behave yourself."
Her daemon's name was Pantalaimon, and he was currently in the form of a moth, a dark brown one so as not to show up in the darkness of the hall.
"They're making too much noise to hear from the kitchen," Lyra whispered back. "And the Steward doesn't come in till the first bell. Stop fussing."
But she put her palm over the ringing crystal anyway, and Pantalaimon fluttered ahead and through the slightly open door of the Retiring Room at the other end of the dais. After a moment he appeared again.
"There's no one there," he whispered. "But we must be quick."
Crouching behind the high table, Lyra darted along and through the door into the Retiring Room, where she stood up and looked around. The only light in here came from the fireplace, where a bright blaze of logs settled slightly as she looked, sending a fountain of sparks up into the chimney. She had lived most of her life in the College, but had never seen the Retiring Room before: only Scholars and their guests were allowed in here, and never females. Even the maid-servants didn't clean in here. That was the Butler's job alone.
Philip Pullman (Norwich, 19 oktober 1946)
De Amerikaanse schrijfster Fannie Hurst werd geboren op 19 oktober 1889 in Hamilton, Ohio. Zie ook mijn blog van 19 oktober 2008.
Uit: Fannie: The Talent for Success of Writer Fannie Hurst (Biografie door Brooke Kroeger)
"What I lack is rhythm"
The first known published work of Fannie Hurst appeared in her high school newspaper at Christmastime 1904, the month before she graduated. "An Episode," a nine-paragraph story, sketches a few moments in the life of a wealthy, powerful, but godless man alone with his conscience in a cathedral. Overcome by the haunting majesty of his surroundings, he watched his misdeeds pass before him. Pain and remorse engulfed him. He sat crouched alone on a pew until the last echoes of "Ave Maria" died away.
Then he rose, and went out, and as he went he said, "I have knowledge, I have power--what I lack is rhythm."
Then he threw back his head and laughed, long and loud and bitterly, and went off into the dusk.
Fannie Hurst, the daughter of now quite comfortable, assimilated German Jews with deadening middle-class aspirations, wanted to be a writer. She liked to claim that the Saturday Evening Post mailed back her manuscripts as if by boomerang from the time she was fourteen. This did not deter her. Nor did her mother's dire prediction that she would end up "an old-maid schoolteacher like Tillie Strauss," the sad and lonely spinster daughter of one of her mother's friends. Fannie defied this well-meant but suffocating opposition and compromised only enough to go to college in St. Louis, her hometown. She entered Washington University in the fall of 1905, a month before she turned twenty.
Fannie and her classmates watched much ground break. The handsome new Gothic-style "Quad" had been a site for the most defining seven months of the century for St. Louis, the "Universal Exposition," more commonly known as the 1904 World's Fair. The trees thatlined the campus drives were only saplings in those days, reminding Fannie of "the knees of newborn calves."
Fannie Hurst (19 oktober 1889 23 februari 1968)
Zie voor onderstaande schrijver ook mijn blog van 19 oktober 2006
De Britse schrijver John le Carré werd geboren op 19 oktober 1931 in Poole, Dorset, Engeland.
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