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I'd rather stay at home Mathijs Lieshout
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Mathijs Lieshout 17/02/08
I'd rather stay at home
Gingerbread / Sugar / Marsipain "showroom" with adjusted room lighting 2008
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Mathijs Lieshout 14/02/08
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Mathijs Lieshout 12/02/08
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This Basement Flat, small and basic but all you need really, made me think of a fragment by Heinrich Heine:

Ich habe so die friedlichste Gesinnung. Meine Wuensche sind: eine bescheidene Huette, ein Strohdach, aber ein gutes Bett, gutes Essen, Milch und Butter, sehr frisch, vor dem Fenster Blumen, vor der Tuer
einige schoene Baeume, und wenn der liebe Gott mich ganz gluecklich machen will, laesst er mich die Freude erleben, dass an diesen Baeumen etwa sechs bis sieben meiner Feinde aufgehaengt werden. Mit geruehrtem Herzen werde ich ihnen vor ihrem Tode alle Unbill verzeihen, die sie mir im Leben zugefuegt – Ja, man muss seinen Feinden verzeihen, aber nicht frueher, als bis sie gehenkt worden.

Heinrich Heine, Gedanken und Einfaelle, S. 425

A bit gruesome perhaps but I think it expresses in the best possible way that the longing for a home is so much more then the need for a roof over you head. For those of you who don't read German (how can
you live?) here's a translation:

My disposition is of a most peaceable kind. My wishes are: a modest cottage with a thatched roof, a decent bed, good food, fresh milk and butter, in front of the window flowers, in front of the door a couple
of pretty trees, and when dear god wants to make my happiness complete, he will give me the joy that in these trees about six or seven of my enemies will be hanged. With a touched heart I will forgive them all the misery they put me through during my life - Yes, one has to forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged.

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Mathijs Lieshout 10/02/08
 
I forgot to bring my oyster card and had to get a new one here, it
came in a sleeve that could not have been more appropriate...
 
 
   
   
   
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