In the New Yorker of this week a hilarious account written by Ariel Levy of the era of when lesbian separatists of a generation ago created a shadow society devoted to living in an alternate, penisless reality. Called themselves womyn - to avoid the word men and neither spoke to men or tolerated them in their midst. So expelling even young boys from their communities.The most colorful separatists, although they were not the most
influential, nor the most ideologically stalwart, were the Van Dykes, a
roving band of van-driving vegans who shaved their heads, avoided
speaking to men, and lived on the highways of North America for several
years. Nowadays most of them a decent housewives ;-)
We are finding all kinds of new machines here in Belgium...
Bart was passing by by train and took this picture of KP10 from the train.
We are on our way to discover World War I. The purpose of this trip is
to visit the mayor battlefields and try to imagine the madness of this
war which costs millions their lives and had new inventions like the
airplane, zeppelin, tank, automatic weapons, gas attacks caused the
collapse of 4 empires (Russia, Germany, Turkey and Austria), changed
the map of the world and started - in the end WW II. June 28 1914 Franz
Ferdinand was killed in Sarajevo and already August 4 the German troops
entered -neutral- Belgium. We will follow the troops and battles. So
moving from east to west and then south.
We had an extra day in Gulpen, so decided to head to Clervaux in Luxembourg to see the exhibition 'Familiy of Man' at Chateaux Clervaux. This is a collection of great photos put together by Edward Steichen, curator of the MoMa in the 1940s. It traveled all around the globe attrackting millions of people before settling down here at the chateaux. It was a great trip to - passing the highest peak in Belgium and riding through forrests and valleys.
