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  • Western Europe owes its civilization to translators. (Kelly Louis)    
  • I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. (Oscar Wilde)    
  • Writers will happen in the best of families. (Rita Mae Brown)     
  • If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. (Isaac Asimov)     
  • The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it. (Benjamin Disraeli)    
  • Why do writers write? Because it isn't there. (Thomas Berger)    
  • The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication. (Hans Georg Gadamer)    
  • Writing well means never having to say, 'I guess you had to be there.' (Jef Mallett)    
  • We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has. (Deborah Tannen)    
  • The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. (George Bernard Shaw)     
  • Language is an art, like brewing or baking. (Charles Darwin)    
  • Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs. (Jack Lynch)    
  • Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)     
  • No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft. (H. G. Wells)    
  • The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. (Edwin Schlossberg)     
  • Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. (Robert Heinlein)     

texts info panel Grevelingen

info panel at the shore of lake grevelingenWriting texts is something that I do at lightning speed. However, it may sometimes take a while before my work can be seen. The texts for this info panel that you can now find at the harbour of Den Osse (on the Dutch island of Schouwen-Duiveland) were written in May 2011. So was the German translation which was also provided by SBText.

Submerged text
Den Osse is quite a lovely place, but the real beauty here is to be found underwater in Lake Grevelingen. The panel contains some info on the creatures that live underwater as well so that you can now enjoy that aspect of the Grevelingen without getting your feet wet.

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