yes, indeed
the same thing can be said about art, don't you think?

What's wrong with being pleasant and agreeable?

Teresa

I'm an extremly pleasant person and I know how to serve people. We are not speaking here about the art of serving tables, but about literature. There is a difference between these two arts, in case you don't know.

Years ago I saw an episode of an Indian(?) television series of the Mahabharata. I never really felt in danger. Was it my innocence/ignorance or would you think the danger is strictly related to the medium book? Or maybe the movie just didn't do justice to the book.
I think I'll read and watch "Het veertiende kippetje" again to see if there's a difference in danger experience between the book and the movie.

It makes me think about the Holy Bible and the Holy Koran. Some religious people forbid others to touch or even to read those extremely holy books. Dangerous books? About guns, they say it is not the gun but the (wo)man that shoots…

bhagavad Gita

Funny I just read this (part of) article at Boingboing.net, its a nice connection between danger and the old Indian Texts

J. Robert Oppenheimer, scientific director of the Manhattan Project, was under no illusions about what he and his fellow physicists had wrought. The effects of the blast, the equivalent of 20,000 tons of TNT, moved the intellectual Oppenheimer to quote from the Bhagavad Gita: "If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one. Now I am become Death, destroyer of worlds."

More prosaically, Dr. Kenneth Bainbridge, site director of the Trinity test, said: "Now we are all sons-of-bitches."

Pim

This makes me think of the discussion about The Happy Novel a while ago... can a happy novel be considered Dangerous?

Pablo

Maybe. We should not exclude the possibility.

To Arnon Grunberg

When asked if you'd like to see Belgium dissapear you answered: 'Quite the opposite.'

From this I deduce some sentiment. Sympathy even towards Belgium.

Is this presumption wrong? Either way, would you care to give us more insight in your relationship with the country?

important

mr Grunberg please contact me.

Mr. Music

Please, contact my assistant: johannes@arnongrunberg.com.

Pim

What's the trinity test again?

trinity test

Arnon,

The Trinity test was the prelude for the biggest explosion caused by humans so far, wiki explains it in the following words.

Trinity was the first test of technology for a nuclear weapon. It was conducted by the United States on July 16, 1945, at a location 35 miles (56 km) southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, on what is now White Sands Missile Range, headquartered near Alamogordo. Trinity was a test of an implosion-design plutonium bomb. The Fat Man bomb, using the same conceptual design, was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, a few weeks later. The Trinity detonation was equivalent to the explosion of around 20 kilotons of TNT and is usually considered as the beginning of the Atomic Age.

Pim

Arnon:
My comment did not refer to your personality or your waiting skills.