Tag: isolation
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Avec ma solitude
Georges Moustaki, “Ma solitude” (1970) Non, je ne suis jamais seul
avec ma solitude…I. Belgium
The first and only presentation I’ve ever given in a foreign language was on solitude. Specifically, it was for an assignment in my C1 Dutch class in the fall of 2023, when we were tasked with designing a solution to a Belgian—or at the very least, Flemish—problem. (This assignment, which took on the unfortunate title of “Make Belgium Great Again,” had nothing to do with the far more entertaining phenomenon of Belgian solutions.) After a few days of wracking my brains and spitballing with my Belgian colleagues in the office, I designed a pilot program called Belgeleiden: a pun on the Dutch verb begeleiden, “to supervise,” and the demonym Belg for “Belgian.”
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Between Two Rivers 