Image

As was said in earlier discussion, image is nowadays everything, also socks can be marketing, the world is becoming more and more a strange place..

I admit, I am guilty of the same crime. Whenever you are near, your pants distract me.

Arnon

Sometimes funny socks can be more real than a serious discussion, right? Although in class I'd never payed any attention to your socks. I guess I missed something fundamental there ;)

But like you said during the classes and during the Albert Verwey reading: there is for a writer no such thing as a coincidence. So even the fact that you wore those striped socks during the classes, said something about the man sitting across from me. They were very colourful. Sometimes blue, sometimes al kind of colours. You choose to were them. So it said something. And you know that sometimes you can get carried away by observing people.

Maybe the problems were so serious that there was a desperate need for funny socks.

When I was young a woman came to my classroom and talked about poor people. She told us that they always look at a person's shoes before anything else. Shoes tell a lot about a person's wealth. I always look at people's sock, for I think they tell a lot about a person's character.

I myself, for example, stopped wearing sport-socks a year ago, and switched to thinner, blander socks. Although I do have my fair share of crazy socks.

Alex

You didn't miss anything important.

Karen

What else did you notice if I may ask?

Dear Dens,

Do you think socks tell more about someone's character then for example his watch, or if he wears a tie or not?

socky hair

By the way, we had all made our hair wet for you. By the time the lecture was over, our hair had already dried. It was a sad thing.
Your socks cheered us op though.
As they always did. We would ask Savita to hypnotise you with her sheep-pencase and take turns to peek at your socks.

Dear Arnon,

I loved your reading and seeing you for the first time. I also loved that you signed my boek. Thank you!

I feel like I'm in kindergarten

Arnon

Did your socks match?

yes, this is all so sweet that i can hardly read it

Arnon

Why bothering about the clothes you wear? Red sleeves or not. Keep on bothering about life. Some scenes in your new novel are over the top of real life. That doesn't matter as long as you can tell wrong from right. You can. As long you want to tell stories and want people to listen to them.. That's what yo do.
I am a father of a son and a daughter and know quiet a few levels of communication by now. Enjoy and have good luck,

Peter

Peter

You seem to have missed the point of this entry.

@Eric

Yes, socks tell more than a tie or a sweater, because socks are hidden most of the time (it's under your pants, it's under the table, it's not visible because the conversation is too interesting, etc) and ties an sweaters and watches are pretty obivous and in your face kind of clothes. Socks are subtle.

@Arnon

Mr. Arnon, have you been drinking again?
Is there a point to this entry?

Dear Dens,

What kind of socks does James Bond wear?
I do have an image of his watch, and certainly of his tie.
But his socks....
Maybe if we would see them, would it tell us a different story about who he is?

Eric

@Arnon

I observed probably more then I can think of right now. But I noticed that you avoid eye contact when you are observing people. You tend to look away the second somebody looks back.
And when Vogelaar was there to talk to us, he was copying your body language all the time. So I think he liked you. When you were sitting back, he was. When you sat more straight up he did too. I like to look whether people copy each others body language because you can tell a lot from that. And you can even manipulate (in the positive way of using the word) people by knowing if they copy you and change you're own body language towards them.

Jan Thys ??

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A persons character

Dens,
I really wonder: if -as you state in your comment- socks tell a lot about a persons character, why do you wear 'thinner and blander' socks' ?

Ybe

I can only guess. Your guess is just as good as the next's

Emma

I'm sorry I missed your wet hair.

Karen

Perhaps.

Oscar

Yes.

@Eric Wander
I speak for Jan Thys now.

Dear Bernard,

Why would you?

Eric

Dear Arnon,

Perhaps you avoid eye contact when you are observing people?
Perhaps you tend to look away the second somebody looks back?
Perhaps Vogelaar was copying your body language all the time?
Perhaps he liked you?
Perhaps what actually?

Eric

@Eric Wander
See October the 5th for a brief explanation (but there seems to be something wrong with older posts now on the site).

Socks

Dens
exactly ! My socks tell me your guess is the best !

Bernard

You have installed the latest Flash version on your machine, haven't you? Something went wrong in that version, I have created a temporary solution and I am looking into this. In the meantime I'm still developing the HTML version of this site where problems like these will be non-existent.

@Sander
Thank you!

Dear Bernard,

Does the 'f' stand for something?

Eric

Eric

Perhaps. Indeed.

@Eric Wander
f stands for ‘frater’.

Dear Arnon,

Aha......