This is not my thesis

 

1.

The deadlines approached and I had to find a theme for my major project.


2.

But I could not find anything that interests me.

Then I googled ‘I cannot find anything that interests me’ and came accross a book from an absurdist writer called 'Today I wrote nothing'.


3.

I was living in a place with 4 windows at that time, but there was no direct light at all.

It felt like I am in between giant stones.

4.

On the book there is a story where people are getting confused which number comes first, 7 or 8. In my opinion 7 comes after 8, but only when 8 comes after 7.

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5.

I participated in a lottery for a new house, and the day after I received an email that I got selected. Then another one that I was not.

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6.

For years I was using the most annoying ringtone for my alarm. In the last couple of months,

I started playing the guitar. Yesterday, my alarm rang in the sweetest melody I have ever heard,

and I don’t remember changing it.

7.

I had to produce some work, which under the current circumstances felt impossible. In Fellini’s 8 1/2 the hero, facing similar sruggles visits his memories to get inspiration. A trip to Greece, and in particular the place I grew up was the next move.

8.

My grandma’s house by the beach was always a great place to spend your time.

9.

She decided to split her house for her two daughters, however,

it was not possible to be cut in the middle so arguments begun.

10.

I decided it’s better to go for a walk.

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11.

Returning home after my walk,

I suddenly exclaimed : Oh my God!

I’ve been walking 4 days in a row!

What will my family think of me now?

12.

I decided to drive back to Amsterdam with my girlfriend.

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13.

While on the road, we had a fight about a matter at her work.

Then we decided to avoid speaking for work again.

That happened for almost every subject.

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14.

Returning home I just wanted to watch a movie and relax after the 5 day trip. Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil of 1982 begins in pure black with these words burned in ash white: ‘Because I know that time is always time/And place is always and only place’. The lines are from ‘Ash Wednes- day’, T.S Elliot black poem. Then the letters slowly disolve into pure black, as if in a lightless closet, as if in the womb, as if in a bomb shelter and we hear these words spoken by a woman: ‘ The first image he told me about was of three children on a road in Iceland in 1965’.

15.

I instantly remembered my trip to Iceland.

16.

I had already slept after that scene.

17.

The day after, I watched the same movie.

But I dont’t remember it, since I had to

concentrate on the subtitles.