Welcome to the weekend,
Here are five things I thought worth sharing this week:
In honor of my visit to Ghent this weekend, a short piece on the Belgian national football team’s new away kit, which is an homage to Tintin, the beloved comic created by Belgian artist Hergé.
How the EP (Extended Play record) came to be.
“Write early in the morning, cultivate memory, reread core books, take detailed reading notes, work on several projects at once, maintain a thick archive, rotate crops, take a weekly Sabbath, go to bed at the same time, exercise so hard you can’t think during it, talk to different kinds of people including the very young and very old, take words and their histories seriously (i.e., read dictionaries), step outside of the empire of the English language regularly, look for vocabulary from other fields, love the basic, keep your antennae tuned, and seek out contexts of understanding quickly (i.e., use guides, encyclopedias, and Wikipedia without guilt).” — John Durham Peters, in a wide-ranging interview with the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Albert Camus on how to be in the world.
Don’t be “weakened by the weekend“.
Currently reading: Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
Wishing a safe holiday to my American readers, and a good weekend to everyone!
Image credit: Photo by Joel Severino on Unsplash
