Notities
Bij Rekord: ‘The greatest distance achieved by a frog in an official contest is 16 feet 10 inches (Aggregate of three jumps) by a frog named “Lucky”, owned by Roy Weimer, on 24th May 1954 at Angels Camp, California. At the same stadium in May 1955 an African frog made an unofficial single leap of over 15 feet in escaping from his box.’ The Guinness Book of Records. Guinness Superlatives Ltd. London.
Bij De kracht van het zichtbare is het onzichtbare: ‘The power of the visible is the invisible’ - He ‘Digesteth Harde Yron’ - Marianne Moore. Collected Poems. Faber & Faber, London.
Bij Onverwachte schaduw: ‘... And then there were the mirages - the mirages where nature, that exquisite cheat, achieved absolute miracles: visions of water were so clear that they reflected the real rocks nearby’. Vl. Nabokov: The Gift. Putnam & Co. New York.