Daan Verhoeven

freediving phaticisting photographer

[Daan Verhoeven @FreediverDaan]

Dad’s insights into the gulf war are eerily relevant today, 35 years later

[Cornelis Verhoeven @CornVerhoeven]

'War without a face', an article from 1991 about the Gulf war, still painfully relevant 35 years later.
https://t.co/E68wUiOFuR

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The new @TheAuthorGuy book has joined the others on the shelf and in the tradition of me forgetting you shouldn’t read him in public; had me snorting with laughter again, which can be alarming for fellow passengers on an overnight flight.

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My dad’s beautiful essay about a childlike element in philosophy, which he wrote after I asked him how I could know I wasn’t dreaming

[Cornelis Verhoeven @CornVerhoeven]

Upstream - an essay about a childlike element in philosophy: https://t.co/7gkYP2qgPg

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Just a random ocean appreciation post.

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frozen in time, an icy short video featuring @WillTrubridge https://t.co/qGwpCievep

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Did a tricky translation for dad's impressive essay 'the sound of truth', and joyously failed. If anyone would like to have a go, or read the Dutch original, I've included the original text's word doc at the end of the piece.

[Cornelis Verhoeven @CornVerhoeven]

On what would have been his 97th birthday, a translation of his essay 'The sound of truth' (Het geluid van de waarheid). https://t.co/t2h0Nr3ErH

[Daan Verhoeven @FreediverDaan]

@annaboetticher ""Die historisch gewachsene Religion vollzieht sich um die geheilte Wunder einer nicht mehr gestellten Frage."

[Daan Verhoeven @FreediverDaan]

Sometimes I read my dad's work, then re-read it, and then I just sit quietly for a while waiting for the world to come back into focus.
"Historically grown religion takes place around the healed wound of a question that is no longer asked."
That's a line from an epic song, no?

[Cornelis Verhoeven @CornVerhoeven]

"Historically grown religion takes place around the healed wound of a question that is no longer asked."
Surrounding the void, 1965

[Daan Verhoeven @FreediverDaan]

@annaboetticher It’s in that book Wohin ist Gott that I sent you - I’m going to check how they translated it

[Anna von Boetticher @annaboetticher]

That sense of being suspended in endless space. I love being out in the open sea, where there is nothing your mind can grasp but the waves and the way the sun filters through the surface, creating rays that look distinct enough to hold onto with both hands.

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[Daan Verhoeven @FreediverDaan]

@annaboetticher Love it when we improvise!

[Cornelis Verhoeven @CornVerhoeven]

“The strictest criterion of truth: what you cannot imagine is ripe for happening. Reality only arises at a certain degree of impossibility.”
(from 'The Detour', 1998)

[Daan Verhoeven @FreediverDaan]

Freediving the Zenobia https://t.co/AI8690Rknf

[Cornelis Verhoeven @CornVerhoeven]

Possibly all of this verbal activity is just an overconfident and fascinating but destined to fail episode between an original silence and the quiet that comes after a storm of words, which might barely recollect any of it.
https://t.co/79w0aV3f4R

[Daan Verhoeven @FreediverDaan]

@MennoLievers @HarrisonSealts @De_Taalstaat onlangs is ook 'Tractaat over het spieken' opnieuw uitgegeven: https://t.co/Fw4OiEKhmv

[Daan Verhoeven @FreediverDaan]

Maravilla, mon coeur
Oh my heart - can you be in love with a place? I get butterflies when I know I'm going to see Maravilla. She's only a small cenote, and not super deep, but she's such a pearl, such a gem of perfection.

[Daan Verhoeven @FreediverDaan]

In a difficult to suppress compulsion, similar to cursing in church, I found myself in a vegan restaurant today wanting to yell “BACON!”

[Daan Verhoeven @FreediverDaan]

Freediving Dominica with @SofiGomezU
https://t.co/IBiU6h1HIH

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@annaboetticher

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Such an interesting concept:

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More here: https://t.co/1li8GMrJuP