Fried paprika’s ! My friend, she loves it. Delicious.

Were your hosts writers of poetry or prose? Were the dogs vegetarian? It is tricky to bbq a vegetable, I imagen the gossip was as delicious as the afternoon.hm. Ireland is lovely, I met my mate there, in Donegal.

I just deleted an e-mail: 'Great Sexual Performance Begins at the Dinner Table - Foods to Increase Libido' no kidding, damm spam.

Marie M

Don't you think great sexual performances do often start at dinnertables?

M Hordijk

Hmm?. I do believe that when you starve yourself a bit, the food tastes better.

Arnon

Refering to my question on Poetry or prose, please answer at your earliest convenience, we'll be off to sea soon and we don't have satellite on our sailboat yet, thank you, heaps.

Marie

You post too many comments and you ask too many questions. I guess it's time for your sailboat.

Arnon

I’m a volunteer at heart, when I left Israel for India, I went to work for the most cunning of all nuns, in Calcutta. She had lost her faith by then, but I didn’t know that at the time, I only found out a couple of years ago. She told me to study hard and I did, I became a nurse. I am not kidding. This game only serves the privacy of my nature. Please, I’ll beg if I have to, Poetry or prose? And then I’ll leave, life is too short.

your couch surfing trip

Hello,
I'm Lidwine Kervella from the picture desk of the French weekly magazine Courrier International in Paris.
I have a pictures request for you concerning your couch surfing trip of last year.
Could you, please, contact me at the following e-mail address : lidwine@courrierinternational.com.

Thank you in advance for your precious help.

Best regards,
Lidwine Kervella

Arnon

And FYI , I haven't told you any lies. I only lied once, about my skin condition and visiting Ein Gedi, to Mieke (I'm sorry about that Mieke, it was my f'cked up way of trying to bond with you, I think you are wonderful and my skin condition is not that bad really) I haven't been in Ein Gedi since early 1991. My life has been the strangest string of metaphors. Goodbye, I love you all.

Lidwine

If I'm not mistaken Sander contacted you already.

Arnon

I've read some of your'reports' from Leidse Rijn in NRC. It seems that people were very eager to share some of their (political, societal) views with you. Did you sometimes have the idea that people were, to some extent, using you to get their views in the newspaper? And, did anyone try to rape you?

I can't believe complaining about the lenght of life. I don't perceive it as being to short. If anything it's too long.

Marie M

Enjoy your sailing trip. It was nice to hear from you.

Batta

No. And no. Definitely not.

Arnon

It's hard to understand what motivated people to let you wander around in their lives.

Batta

What about curiousity? Wanting to meet a famous writer and wondering about his perception of their lives.

Batta

In addition to what Mieke wrote:
you underestimate both people's vanity (and curiosity) and my charm.

Mieke

Hm, but what about maintaining your privacy? Maybe Arnon's right, and vanity should not be underestimated.

Batta

People want their lives to matter. A writer and his columns are one way of achieving that goal. A second effect is that it raises their status in the neighbourhood, they become more important. Who can refuse that, The loss of privacy is the price they are willing to pay.

Batta

Privacy is overestimated. If you were less obsessed with privacy you would have a better sex life i.e. no need for you to travel all the way to Sudan to pick up young men.

Arnon

An odd statement. It was not my sex drive that brought me to Sudan. If anything it was a case of vanity.