Gerrit Achterberg  

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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)

Gerrit Achterberg (May 20 1905 in Langbroek - January 17 1962 in Leusden) was a Dutch poet. His early poetry concerned a desire to be united with a beloved in death. In 1937, he shot and killed his landlady and he subsequently spent six years in a psychiatric hospital.

His most famous work is the sonnet sequence De ballade van de gasfitter (1953; English translation, A Tourist Does Golgotha, 1972).


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