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Afghanistan

The summer of 2006 was the summer of Afghanistan – I traveled for the first time to Afghanistan, it was my first embed with an army as well.
The summer of 2007 was the summer of the chambermaid – I worked as a chambermaid in a hotel in Bavaria and I was happy.
The summer of 2008 was the summer of Swiss trains – I worked as a steward in the dining car of several Swiss trains. Ah, nothing better than Swiss trains.
The summer of 2009 was the summer of massage – I worked as a masseur in a Romanian resort and I discovered that a man is bigger than his disgust.
The summer of 2010 is the summer of hospitals. The hospital has become my natural surrounding. Soon I will become a nurse. If you want to celebrate life you should be able to celebrate other people’s excrements as well.


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i do not want to look at that picture
can you hide the picture (as you can hide comments)?
said M P 02/08/2010 14:03 (Updated 14:12) • x
Isn't The Arnon a little stream which amounts in the Black Sea, Utopian speaking? According to mythologie-
said david duinker 02/08/2010 21:58 • x
Every human excretion can be worth celebrating, if only the conditions are appropriate.
said David . 02/08/2010 22:00 • x
Eating
Shit is the inevitable result of eating. While I celebrate my food, I regard my excrement as an unfortunate by-product. As for other people's excrements, well that's their business.

Of course, there are those Germanic "platform toilets". Apparently some people take great interest in their bowel movements.
said Carlos Dee 02/08/2010 22:08 • x
But what about your excretions, David, would you tax them?
said david duinker 02/08/2010 22:09 • x
I am threefold minded on secretions, even fourfold at times. One there's shit in generall, two the piss and sting,- trice more flued stuff like sweet sweat and, your mother knows what? Eat the latter and thou will reach eternall life, like rural apes do.
said david duinker 02/08/2010 22:17 • x
The summer of 2011 might be the one of graveyards and or giant yachts; motherlessly - but a golden ring and bitter champaigne and supernatural discovery.
said david duinker 02/08/2010 22:57 • x
Shit, man. Ain't nothin' natural 'bout a hospital. That's the whole point.
said Steve Meigs 03/08/2010 13:26 (Updated 14:12) • x
Arnon, a friend of mine works in the 'thuiszorg' in Amsterdam Oud Zuid. His stories are intriguing. Perhaps an interesting variation to your nursing idea for writing adventures?
said aliefka 03/08/2010 13:31 (Updated 13:32) • x
Final destiny
Let’s face it Arnon, you attract the more or less mentally ill. Your final destiny could be director of a nutty fruit-cake hospital. Me as a senior patient, I volunteer for the job of artistic office assistant.
said Bernard f 03/08/2010 16:01 (Updated 16:01) • x
Bernard
Yes, The Arnon Grunberg Asylum Foundation.
said Mieke Dutoit 03/08/2010 17:16 • x
To Bernard
"Let’s face it Arnon, you attract the more or less mentally ill." One of the sharpest analyses you have contributed so far.
said Pjötr Nembkow 03/08/2010 23:44 • x
Bernard
I apply for the vacancy of Janitor
said Dens Powells 04/08/2010 21:21 • x
Welcome, Dens! Now as the Janitor of Lunacy (a nice song by Nico by the way http://tiny.cc/gfww0)
Welcome doctor Dutoit!
But some have to wait before they can get in, they have to wait until they are a bit older. When they have become wonderful sarcastic grumpy old men.
said Bernard f 05/08/2010 16:20 • x
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