YEAR 5

ISSUE 1

OCTOBER 2009

THE BOOK REVIEW ...

THE BOOKSHELF OF ...

STUDYING ABROAD

- MAGAZINE FOR STUDENTS OF ENGLISH

AT LEIDEN UNIVERSITY -

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Contents

By the time you read this, you will have hopefully recovered from the shock to the system that is the
new semester. As I write this, Im still suffering from
something of a summer holiday hangover. After a few
months of freedom, there are classes to be attended,
internships to be whatever it is you do to internships,
papers to be written, and lots of other stuff as well.

Editorial

Contents

Mini Interviews

The Freshers Guide to English

Still, we soldier on, and so does the Angler.
Weve had quite a few changes in our line-up, including
having to say farewell to our long-time Editor in Chief,
Merel, and our favourite reviewer, Tim. However, weve
got a few new additions who will more than make up
for this summers casualties.

Careers in English

Studying Abroad

The Bookshelf of ...

Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade

Read on for some short fiction, a guide to making that dream of studying abroad a reality, a review of
J.M. Coetzees Summertime, and much more.

Philological Fun Facts

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Pause for Thought

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Book Review:
Summertime

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The Man Who Ate the World

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Agenda & Announcements

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Fishy greetings,
Leah Clarke

Angler Issue 5.1 made by

Anna Visser
Carolina de Bruijn
Jodie Mann
Leah Clarke
Peter Crowe
Zuzana Chomova
Robert Lankamp
Contact: editors.of.the.angler@gmail.com

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Th e Fresh er s Guide to Engl i sh

So youve chosen to study English? You find a pleasant room which you refer to as your garret and put up posters proclaiming your political beliefs (Free Tibet!, Free Palestine!, Free Downloads!); you purchase an extravagantly
priced notebook bound in the skin of an endangered mammal and rent every film version of the years set texts. But
despite the best of your preparations, youve an unsettling problem: people keep asking you what English is and why
you want to study it. Because, in the sweat of the breathless introductions and grabby romances of the first weeks, you
keep meeting people who study proper subjects - subjects other than English. How do you answer such questions?

The confusion arises because everybody means something different when they talk about English as an academic subject. When my friend Bill says he studies English hes implying that he is mad, bad and dangerous to know,
like Byron. He means hes troubled by bigger problems than sciency concerns like mathematics and how things actually
work. Hes suggesting hes the kind of guy who would swim an ocean for a bet, fight in another countrys war for love
or principle, or plunge the fathomless depths of the soul for inspiration--deeds he thinks are advertised by his habit of
always carrying a book of poetry in his pale left hand. He doesnt mean that he shags his sister, though Byron did that
too; he does mean that he would shag you, given one sniff of the honey. But Bills is a specifically male version of English, treasured through lonely teenage years and an early contact with prohibitive family Calvinism.

When women talk about English they are rarely trying to get laid, which is why Bill is always so depressed.
Another friend, Liedewij, studies English because she wants to become an English teacher and always has answers to
the questions of what? and why? Her friend Roos hopes eventually to work in an English-speaking country, unaware
that most native English ears dont bother to register the differences between the spoken English of various kinds of
Dutch people: whether youve just finished a Bachelor degree or just failed HAVO, it sounds like one big Goldmember
impression to the English. Roos tragedy is that she focused on the language rather than the work, a useful trade which
could have been her passport to gainful employment in any country she chose.

No one ever studied English in the hope of becoming wealthy (apart perhaps from my friend Michael, who
often sends videos of him hurting himself to Johnny Knoxville). Some students, however, cherish the idea of becoming
full-time academics, motivated by the same impulse as the Formalists who tried to raise literary criticism to the status
of a science in the nineteen-teens. They too wish to join the ranks of those paid to maintain the fiction that English exists as more than a hasty collage of history, sociology and political economy with more pleasing source material. These
students have an eye for an opportunity and realise that if we measure it, analyse it according to predetermined criteria,
follow a method and explain our results, English suddenly becomes respectably legitimate and we no longer have cause
to be jealous of scientists and their almost-certainties.

If this version of English has little appeal, do not be discouraged. English departments will always have room
for their share of dreamers and idealists, the ones who will forge in the smithy of their soul the uncreated conscience of
their race. So take your oars and beat on into the great ocean of ideas, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly
into the past. If nothing else you might learn to identify the literary allusions made in this paragraph, and that knowledge could be very useful in a pub quiz.
by Peter Crowe

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Career s in Engl i sh
Every issue we feature a different career you can do with your English degree.
This time, Jodie Mann and Peter Crowe write about their experiences teaching English.

Practice what youre preached

I didnt start a degree in English to become a teacher; rather, becoming a teacher encouraged me to start a degree in
English. When I completed my final year of High School in South Africa, I wanted to do a million and one things. I entertained dreams of becoming an actress, or a writer, or a radio presenter, or an archaeologist. I was interested in marine biology
and physiotherapy and history and theatre, and I was equally passionate about them all. The result of all this was that I could
not decide what to study, so, I did what most people in that situation do; I went out and got a job. Unlike most other people,
however, I decided to go and get a job on the other side of the world, which is how I ended up in The Netherlands. It is here
that I re-discovered my passion and enthusiasm for my mother tongue and ended up following a teacher-training course that
put me to work as a language trainer in the business sector. I now earn my daily bread, and my tuition fees, by helping people
to improve their English and expand their conversational skills as well as refresh their knowledge of English grammar.

By following the BA English Language and Culture, I hope to enrich my knowledge of English so that I can become
a better teacher and, hopefully, this degree will also broaden the range of possibilities I have as an English teacher.
by Jodie Mann

Be realistic

I came to English teaching using the opposite road to Jodies. I did a Bachelors in English at the University of Manchester because I liked reading books, and if anyone asked me what I was going to do for work after Id graduated, Id shrug
affably and tell them about my idea for a novel. Youre going to become an English teacher, theyd say then, and Id swear
at them.

Three years of temporary jobs that ranged from the soul-destroying (box packing in the Amazon warehouse) to the
bizarre (bingo-calling) later, and having experienced what I naively thought was real poverty during six months of statesubsidized unemployment, I applied to take a teacher training course at Oxford University. They accepted me and I was sent
out on a placement to a tough comprehensive school, brimming with the thought that I could change some lives using only
the force of my personality and some great poetry.

The moment I finally realized that I was on the wrong track was when one of my students tried to fight me in the
corridor after I stopped him from punching a younger boy. He was sixteen years old, 195 centimetres tall and looked like he
preferred doing weights to doing homework. He was also basically illiterate after 11 years of schooling, as I discovered from
another teacher after hed tried to hit me. It was enlightening to realize why he hadnt been infected by my enthusiasm for the
poetry of Philip Larkin and made me realize that if I was to become a good teacher, I was going to have to readjust my whole
approach.

After I qualified to teach English to English students, I moved to the Netherlands with my Dutch girlfriend and
taught HAVO, VWO and International Baccalaureate English in Dutch high schools for two years. It was an exhilarating and
enjoyable experience most of the time. I was lucky enough to click with my classes and the students were happy to let me run
the lessons the way I wanted to most of the time.

The drawbacks of the profession dont need enumerating here; its a tired but true clich that teachers are underpaid
for long hours in demanding conditions. When everything is going your way, it feels like the best job in the world. But on
the bad days, when youre underprepared, the kids are restless and everyone is watching the clock or refusing to co-operate,
there is nowhere to hide. At those times, professional experience is the only thing you can fall back on, and that takes time
to acquire.

by Peter Crowe

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Study ing A broad

Studying abroad can be a wonderful experience the best time in your life or a complete nightmare, if you
were unprepared.

Studying abroad can be a very valuable addition to your time here at Leiden University. By studying and living
somewhere else for a semester or two, you will practice your language skills, social skills, and your ability to adjust to
a foreign environment. All of this sounds kind of scientific. Of course studying abroad also means tons of fun! Making
new friends, trips to must-see attractions, and experiencing all aspects of a different culture. Going to the pub is also
experiencing English culture very valuable!

These days surprisingly few English students choose to study abroad, because they think they can't afford it. Of
course, you do have to save up some money. You can't expect it to be as cheap as studying over here, perhaps still living
with your parents. But there's no need to regard studying abroad as an unattainable ideal, that only the rich can achieve.
There are scholarships, and there's the Erasmus Exchange Programme. Nothing is impossible.

The Erasmus Exchange Programme is instigated by the EU and part of the European lifelong learning programme (LLP) to stimulate cooperation, exchange, training and internships. All universities and colleges in possession
of an Erasmus University Charter (EUC) can partake in exchanges and receive subsidies. The English department of
the University of Leiden has specific agreements with the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, University of Liverpool,
Gent University in Belgium and the National University of Ireland Galway, and the University of Nottingham.

Most Erasmus students, if educational budgets permit, will receive a scholarship of approximately 250 euros
a month. Apart from that, you can take your IB-groep funding with you, you will receive additional payment, for the
OV-card (because you don't use it), and you can rent out your room. So, if you're a bit clever, the Erasmus programme
doesn't have to cost you much money.

If, however, you wish to go outside of Europe, you might need to do some more financial planning than just
this. By all means choose a university which has bilateral agreements with Leiden University. This means that you will
not have to pay any tuition fees. Definitely an advantage if you consider studying in the US, Canada, Australia or New
Zealand. The universities in these countries are known for their educational excellence, but also for their sky-high tuition fees: 30.000 dollars a year is not unusual.

So far I have already named some possibilities of universities you can go to. Here is a more extensive list, although certainly not the full list:
Inside Europe:

- College of William and Mary, Virginia

- University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England

- Washingon College, Washington

- University of Liverpool, England
Canada:

- National University of Ireland, Galway

- McGill University, Montreal

- University of Gent, Belgium

- University of British Columbia, Vancouver

- University of Leuven, Belgium
Australia:

- University de Bologna, Italy

- University of Melbourne

- University of Pisa, Italy

- The University of Sydney

- University of Bergen, Norway
South Africa:

- University of Granada, Spain

- University of Stellenbosch

- University of Poiters, France
Brazil:

- University of Lille, France

- Universidade de Sao Paolo
Outside Europe:
Argentina:
U.S.A:

- Universidad Nacional de Cordoba

- University of California, Berkeley, California
Japan:

- University of California, Los Angeles, California
- Kyoto University

(UCLA)
China:

- Boston College, Boston, Massachusets

- HongKong Baptist University
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Apart from the Erasmus programme and all of Leiden's bilateral agreements there's also ISEP: International
Student Exchange Programme. It's an American programme established to give Americans the chance to study in Europe, and to give Europeans the chance to study at American universities, without having to pay large sums of money.
The American ISEP universities are smaller and less well known, but as there are more than 100 universities to chose
from, spread out over all of the country, and also Canada and Mexico, this still gives you lots of opportunities.

As you can see the possibilities are numerous. For some people this makes it more difficult to choose. Choosing the right university is important. If you are unhappy in a far away country, you can't just go back. You'll have to stick
it out. Therefore some advice on choosing the right university:

- Consider what the purpose is of your studying abroad. Do you want to experience a different culture?

Do you want to study at a world-class university, like Berkeley? Do you want to improve your language skills?

Do you want to travel and see the country?

- Consider the type of person you are. Are you good at making new friends? Would you survive at a highly

competitive university?

- Do you like big cities, like Los Angeles or New York, or would you rather study in a small and compact city,

like Leiden? What kind of cities do you like?

- Consider the climate. Do you love heat? Or snow? If you're planning to go to Calgary, Canada in the fall

semester, take into account that the average winter temperature: minus 10 degrees Celsius is quite normal

over there!

So, if by now, after reading part of this article, you have decided to give studying abroad ago, then there's some
serious considering for you to do.

Then, if you have made your decision, your next task is to sign up. At http://www.onderwijs.leidenuniv.nl/
buitenland/ you will find different forms for Europe and outside of Europe. After you've done this, the International
Office is aware of your big plans. They will help you plan and arrange things. But beware of the deadlines! The deadline
for the Erasmus programme, for the fall semester is March 1. Applications for universities outside of Europe need to
be submitted before December 1. This means you have to plan far ahead. So if you want to go to Canada in the first
semester of your third year, you will have to start arranging that a year earlier.

At the moment I am going through this whole process myself. Studying in America has always been one of my
dreams, but I always thought it was completely impossible and unrealistic. By writing this article I wanted to encourage
and inform other people.
by Anna Visser

It is not impossible! Make it happen!

sources:
www.nuffic.nl
www.onderwijs.leidenuniv.nl/buitenland
www.hum.leidenuniv.nl/studenten/internationalisering/beurzen-uitwisseling/mogelijkheden.html

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The Book shel f Of ...

Ing r id Tieken-B oon van Ostade

What can you tell us about your early reading experiences?
As I was writing the introduction for my book on Late
Modern English (Highly recommendedEd.) I got
thinking about the first book I read in English, which was
Vanity Fair. I eventually wrote about Jane Austen instead,
because I thought she would be more appealing. But I do
remember Vanity Fair. It took me a long time to read, as
I had to take it page by page. The edition I read had very
thin, almost Bible-quality pages.
A while ago, I started to learn Spanish, and discovered that
the books by Isabel Allende are quite easy to read. For me
anyway, and thats surprising perhaps, but the fact that
she writes colloquially helps, I think. I used to take it the
same way I did with Vanity Fair at the timegoing page
by page.
You actually keep a record of all the books you have
read?
Yes! I keep track of everything I read in a notebook: author, title, date I finished it, and year of publication.
I got the habit from my father. He was in the Navy, and one
of his colleagues claimed to have read a thousand books.
My father wondered if that could be right, as it is after all hard to imagine how much a thousand books really is. Because
of this, he started to keep track of all the books he read, and eventually I did, too.
I like to keep track of how many books I have read each year, and to see if there are any trends in my reading. For instance, one year I only managed 29 books, but Im almost at that mark this year already, and its only September.
Are there any books that really stand out for youones you can easily remember without the use of your trusty
notebook?
I used to like Margaret Drabbles novels. I started to read them when I was a student. The protagonist was slightly older
than me, and lived in England. Reading her books was like having a window to English culture and life, which was what
I was looking for.
A friend and I recently reread the books as a kind of project, but I was quite disappointed by them. They didnt appeal
to me anywhere near as much as they did before.
Another favourite is Het Bureau by J.J. Voskuil. He used to work for the Meertens institute, doing research on Dutch
dialects. His six books about his work there are wonderful. He describes daily office life, and really makes a story out
of small everyday occurrences, such as the offices very first Xerox machine. I know its not for everyonesome people
arent interested in such detailed descriptions of everyday events, but I love how Voskuil takes seemingly small things
and makes a story out of them. I also recognise a lot of what he writes about in my work here at the university.
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What are you reading at the moment?

Darwins biography, White Tiger, Max Havelaar, Fowlers biography, and a book on Shakespeares language.
I always read a number of books simultaneously. I read to prepare courses, and for my own research. Books I teach I
always read twiceonce to simply read it, the second time to study it.
Of course, I also read to relax. At the moment, Im reading the second book in Stieg Larssons Millennium trilogy. I
bought the first book as a kind of treat and told myself at the time that I wouldnt buy the other two. But yes, now Im
reading the second one, and I will read the third one at some point as well. It wont be too soon after I finish this one,
though. I think they are wonderful, and it is sad to know that there wont be any others, because Larsson died when he
heard that his books were going to be published.
Is it safe to assume that someone who reads so much has a large collection of books?
I have always said that I dont want my house to be one big library. I dont want the kind of house that has a bookcase
even in the hallway. We have three bookcases in the living room, I have another three in my study, and I have a shelf for
my 18th century books. Then theres the books in my office... Perhaps about 1000, all in all, I think.
Are there any books youre particularly proud of owning?
Oh, yes. I have an 18th century English grammar, which I bought from an antiquarian bookshop in England. I told an
English friend of mine about my find, and she got quite annoyed, because Id gone and taken a first edition out of the
country. Later on the same friend gave me a similar book from her own collection, so I suppose shed got quite reconciled to it. This was a book by Robert Lowth, who is the object of a book Im writing at the moment, and I also have a
copy of his William of Wykeham, which I got as a present from my colleagues for my inaugural lecture.
And finally, if you were stranded on a desert island, which three books would you take with you?
Hmm. Im not going to say the Oxford English Dictionary, as that would be too easy a choice to make, nor will I take the
complete works of Shakespeare. No, I think Id like to take Max Havelaar, as there is so much to the book. It provides
you with plenty to think about, as you take apart Sjaalmans package. Id also take one of my Lowth booksWilliam of
Wykeham, so I can actually read it. Finally, I would also take Vanity Fair, so I can read it once more.
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Phi lolog ical Fun Fact s

Many of us will recognise the word woot from Chaucers Canterbury Tales, as in:

And wel I woot, as ye goon by the weye Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue l.771
It translates to know in modern English but did you know that woot is still in use today, although the meaning is very
different.

Today the word woot has become a term that is more at home in the game-speak of multi-player online roleplaying games and Unix geek-speak. In the former situation it means Wow, loot! and in the latter it is used to refer to
the root command prompt.

Our modern English conjunction but is actually derived from an Old English preposition butan, which
meant outside (and for you budding comparative linguists out there, notice the similarity with modern Dutch buiten); originally, the Old English word for but was ac. Over the course of Old English, however, the word ac became
less preferred and butan started to be used as the conjunction unless and eventually but.

When someone refers to a boss or a leader as the honcho they are actually using a word that was introduced
into English from Japanese. Honcho is translated as lead officer and was adopted by English speaking pilots when
they were stationed in Japan during WWII.
Riddle 5.1
I am bright, hard-working, scholars friend,
Secret-storer, knowledge-chest,
I write and draw with others pen,
Wisdom-seeker, knowledge-trust,
I love small rodents, covet keys,

My eyes through every chink can see,

I cause the noble man to cry,
Whilst thieves in me their solace find,
If you be wise and know my name,
Then say what I am called.
by Jodie Mann

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Pau se for Thought

Were in a cosy little tearoom, appropriately named the Stop-Gap, and Ms Semicolon is reclining on a luxuriously
upholstered chair. Her curvaceous bottom half folds elegantly over the front edge and her full round head rests gently against
the back. It seems incredible that some have called this fantastic punctuation mark old fashioned, but this is precisely the reason we are here. Ms Semicolon has cause for complaint; she is slowly being wiped out.
Q: It has been said that you are unnecessary. How do you feel about that?

Well, understandably, Im quite hurt by that kind of talk. For centuries Ive been providing an important service to
mankind in their efforts to compose eloquent prose, and how am I repaid? I get slandered and ignored! Do you know what
that George Orwell said about me? He said, and I quote, I have decided about this time that the semicolon is an unnecessary
stop and that I would write my next book without one, and you know what? He did! He completely eradicated my existence
from his prose. Unbelievable! Me, Ive been around for hundreds of years, and some upstart writer thinks he can just will me
away!
Q: So, how old are you precisely?

Lets see, the Greeks have been making use of me since they started writing things down; but they only used me as
a question mark, so Im not sure if thats applicable to a modern context. Oh, and of course medieval scribes stuck me onto
the end of Latin words to show where letters were missing in abbreviations, but again, thats another situation. I suppose if
I were to name a birth year it would be the year I was first set in a printing press. That was 1494 and it was Aldus Manutius
who presided over my debut. That makes me 514 years old! Hmm, perhaps we should move on to the next question.
Q: Why do you think people are so hesitant to make use of you in their work?

I think there are two schools of thought on that topic. On the one hand, weve got writers who want to pretend that
I am a nuisance, an imposter punctuation mark that is either a weak cousin of the colon or a glorified comma. These are the
people who, in my opinion, have no sense of balance. On the other hand, I think most people are just confused and dont
know exactly how to handle me. For those poor souls, at least, there is hope.
Q: What would you like to say to our readers?

My dearest hope is that your readers will take the time, after reading this interview, to go and get themselves a good
book on punctuation and read up on me and the many valuable services I can provide. I am more than capable of fulfilling
my functions in modern prose and Im sure that after a few pointers, even the most hesitant of penpushers will come to welcome the assistance I can give them.

And there we have it; the semicolon has spoken! So, next time youre struggling through that essay or re-reading that
thesis, and you get the feeling that it reads a little disjointedly, remember the semicolon! Shed be more than happy, and more
than willing, to add a little more flow to your sentence structure.
by Jodie Mann

Suggested further reading:

Truss, Lynne. Eats, Shoots and Leaves.
Carey, G.V. Mind the Stop: A Brief Guide to Punctuation.

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Book Review ...

Summertime by J.M. Coetzee

A conceptual review of Summertime by J.M. Coetzee
J.M. Coetzee (South Africa, 1940) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003
and has won the prestigious Booker Prize twice. His latest novel, Summertime
(2009), currently has the shortest odds to win the 2009 Booker, which would
make Coetzee the only writer to have won it on three occasions.
(This review is written in the style of the novel, told through the diaries
and ex-lovers of the reviewer.)
11th September 2009
Summertime lies next to him in a sprinkling of taco chip crumbs, finished. He
turns back to the computer and struggles to finish the review.
He writes a note to himself. Questions to ask RE: Coetzee. If Coetzee attaches so
much importance to ethics, why repeatedly dramatise the frailty
of principles, morals, ideas and their subordination to jealousy, fear and sexual
desire? If Coetzee had confidence in his anti-apartheid or animal rights convictions, why always hide behind the third person pronoun?
Why fictionalise a memoir?
Julia
Would I call what I had with Peter Crowe love? No. He was always more in love with himself. Id be surprised if he was
capable of real love. He walked around with his head full of ideas that had nothing to do with how to fix the guttering or the
car. He did this funny thing when he kissed me: hed always put on a CD and move his lips in perfect rhythm. It was very
off-putting.
Megan
You ask me if Peter Crowe is a good reviewer? How could he be? To be a good reviewer you have to first be a good man,
and he is certainly not that. Id struggle to call him human. Ive never read any of his reviews and I dont intend to. It wouldnt
surprise me if he spent the whole time talking about himself rather than the book he was supposed to be reviewing. And hed
probably write about himself using the third person. Idiot.
21st September 2009
He still speaks to his father on the phone every Sunday evening. Its their ritual, though they would never presume to talk
about common interests, of which there are few. He would never, for example, tell his father about Coetzee, the novelist who
drives his readers out into the narrative desert at the heart of man and has the car break down.
He writes a note to himself: is Coetzee the greatest living novelist in the English language?
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The Man Who Ate the World

One day Hungry Man got only the tiniest morsel of bread, an awfully small piece of meat, and just a wee
bunch of carrots for dinner. He could not take it anymore. This was it.

After his meagre dinner, Hungry Man got up from the dinner table. He stared down at the table before him for
a very long time. He could feel anger bubbling up inside of him. The blood rushed through his veins, his cheeks grew
red, a vein pulsed in his neck.

And then feeding frenzy started. First he ate the entire content of the food closet. Then he moved on to something bigger: the house. He ate the dinner table, where had spent so many hours in torment, waiting for a proper meal.
Next were the chairs. After that he ate some more chairs, and the rest of the furniture. He continued in this manner,
until he had eaten his whole house.

The Hungry Man paused for a few minutes. He felt pleasantly revived. But he was still hungry, so he continued. He ate his village, then his district. Then his province, his state, his country. When he had eaten his country he felt
that he had eaten enough for the time being, and took a little rest. He booked a hotel in the neighbouring country and
enjoyed a good nights sleep.

The following morning his hunger returned. He even seemed to be much hungrier than the day before. That
day he ate some more countries. And the next day. And the next.
After 4 weeks, Hungry Man was still hungry. He had grown enormously, with the result that he now looked like a giant, perhaps somewhat like the old Cyclopes of ancient Greece.

By that time there were only two countries left in the world. But Hungry Man ate those too. When he held the
penultimate chunk of the last country in his hand, he paused and looked at it for a moment. On his enormous hand
rested the other half of a shopping mall, some cars, a small pond and an office block. It looked appealing enough. And
who was to miss it? Most humans were dead anyway. He had eaten them too, because he was hungry. Besides, he liked
them. They were a bit chewy, but they had a nice zesty flavour. With a happy sigh Hungry Man stuffed the second last
piece of Earth in his humongous cave of a mouth.


But oh, what now?

When Hungry Man had swallowed his piece of delicious earth, he didn't feel so good. He had to lie down for
a second. He stretched out upon the last piece of earth, on some pretty green woodlands. A giant sequoia prickled
his nose. He sneezed. Hungry Man's stomach started to make rumbling sounds. It thundered inside of him. It wasn't
a very pleasant feeling for Hungry Man. He turned on his right side. But the force with which he did that, was far too
much for his pretty patch of woodlands. With a loud crack the patch broke in two halves. For a split second these two
halves were still attached to each other and Hungry Man hung suspended over the two parts.
Then with a giant big bang all three of them exploded, Hungry Man included.
by Anna Visser

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The Agenda

Anouncements

Albions Weekly Drinks

Albions Annual London Trip

Every Thursday it is time to relax with a pint and chat with

the other Albion members.
Date: every Thursday
Time: 4 pm onwards
Place: Kings Sports Bar (Noordeinde 28)

Albions Roadtrip Entrepreneurs will organize a trip to

London. It will take place from 18 till 23 January 2009,
leaving on the evening of the 18th, coming back in the
morning of the 23rd. Both times we will travel by night
boat.
Register: Oct 5th - 23rd.
Price: - 200,- for Albion members, Albion alumni and

Friends of Albion,

- 225,- for non-members,
- includes traveling between Hoek van Holland and
First come, first serve basis. Register by e-mailing
entrepreneurs@albionassociation.org, mentioning your
name, e-mail address and phone number. For more
information you can e-mail the same address as well.

Halloween Party

Do you want to get in touch with the monster in you?

Then come to our Halloween Party and dress up as your
favourite Halloween character!
Date: October 29th 2009
Time: 21:00h

Beware: the doors will close at 22:30h.

Place: Odessa (Hogewoerd 18)
Costs: FREE ENTRANCE!

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