2007/06/28 Accra
Revenge
Proud
The last evening in Accra: we had dinner at a Lebanese restaurant. Timme cried, there were speeches -- there was a lot of food, almost as good as in Lebanon.
It’s easy to be ironic about a few tears or a short but intense feeling of melancholy, but as Timme said: "When I entered this contest I was sure that the winners would never go on a trip with you."
You can be proud of books you have written, or matches you have won, but I’m proud, and if that word is too big, I’m happy that the winners of the contest traveled with me to Ghana. This is my modest revenge on life: from time to time you have to turn your fantasies into reality, if only to confuse your enemies, and to add some happiness to a few pariahs and outcasts who were willing to write an essay for this particular contest. (Although I have to admit that one of the winners of the contest managed this evening to judge a novel, well a novella written by me as flawed but I ignored his words as a loving father.)
I will go to sleep, but the gentlemen (they prefer to be called "swines") in the living room will drink for quite a few hours to come, I’m sure.
It's hard to leave a temporary family. Also for me.
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Which novel was he talking about?
loving father
Arnon,
As the only real loving father I want you to be honest.
When Timme was right about the novell, so be it ....................
However, when he was wrong, you have my permission to punish him !
(a littlebit).
Rob.
P.S. This of course only when Timme was the the judge.
Rob
Rob
I'm afraid you are missing the point.
Arnon,
Sorry, I didn't miss the point, it was my way to tell you that I accept you as a co-father.
Rob
Rob
Tomorrow morning I’ll dissolve the family, and then Timme is your sole responsibility. By the way I plan to propose to Timme’s sister, just so you know.
Noa
What do you mean with backwash?
Wiki was not helpful.
And if you are not beautiful, you know what L Cohen sang:
:She said she preferred handsome men, but for me she was willing to make an exception."
So who knows, Timme, might open the door for you.
And don't overestimate beauty when it comes to the act of survival.
Dear comming "son in law",
Does my daughter know this allready ????
And by the way : You havn't been throught the approval committee yet.
When do you want to make an appointment ?
Your comming "father in law".
Will the mudwrestlingevent be part of your revenge on life as well? In which way?
And what exactly is this familyfeeling? Even if one never found it in actual family, familyfeeling keeps coming to him/her now and than.
@arnon
Do you think it is possible to be happy without enemies?
Backwash
Oh this is what you meant.
I have been engaged in more intimate things with strangers, though not in Ghana, so I hope I'll survive Timme's backwash, Noa.
Rob & Scufo
Please bring your daughter to the airport tomorrow morning. I have to discuss this with my “amante” but she is very much open for alternative ways of happiness. As a Viennese lady once told me: “You don’t lose what you give away.”
That’s the bad news for those ex-girlfriends who refused to give me away -- happy to hear that you are willing to give your daughter away. She deserves it.
Scufo, you don’t need enemies, they appear by themselves.
Hoi,
Doe de groeten aan George!
Groeten Juliet