The world is held together with the help of cellular tape and good conversations. For an explanation on the ‘one-word-biography’s', see the quotation below.
Dick Advocaat (trainer – miljonair)
Harald Doornbos (waaghals – journalist)
Anders Aslund (adviser – hawk)
- “He [Russian President Vladimir Putin] is too rich to leave”
Artemy Lebedev (designer)
- “Of je een roebel hebt, of een miljoen dollar – dat maakt het verschil”
Elke Tindemans (politica)
- “Dat keur ik niet goed, maar ik begrijp het wel”
Adil Nurmakov (PR manager, activist)
- “Secondly, the system was purchased in Belarus. How can you trust an e-voting system produced in Belarus?”
Mark Walsh (projectmanager)
- “A river doesn’t stop HIV”
Erik Hockheimer (arts)
- “Noem me maar een HIV-consultant, ik ben er al mee bezig sinds 1985″
Yura Vinogradov (chauvinist, pub-owner)
- “Am I in trouble? Not yet”.
Boris Dittrich (activist, politicus)
- “Fascisten. Fascisten zijn het, ik heb er geen ander woord voor”
Marco Cappato (politician)
- “Ciao Olaf, how are you?”
Sophie in ‘t Veld (politicus)
- “Dan moet ‘ie maar oprotten”
Nikolaj Aleksejev (gay-rights activist, businessman)
- “Things are changing, I can feel it”
Coen van Zwol (journalist)
- “Bloggen is diefstal. Het is al een inbraak waarbij je een briefje achterlaat”
He opened the closet, and there was a library card catalogue inside. “Cool.”
He said, “This is my biographical index!”. “Your what?” “I started it when I was just beginning to write! I’d create a card for everyone I though I might need to reference one day! There’s a card for everone I ever wrote about! (…)
“What do you write on them?” “I write the name of the person and a one-word biography!” “Just one word?” “Everybody gets boiled down to one word!”
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. Penguin 2006. p 156-157