A quote by the legendary footballer Johan Cruijff, who was incidentally also the greatest Dutch philosopher who ever lived. It reads: “Alone, you can’t do anything. You have to do it together.”   On Finding A Voice This is my final text for Thought Magicians. Lex and I have decided that after three years of writing, thinking and creating together, the project has run its course – at least for now. It still feels a bit strange that everything we have written, everything we hav

In James Baldwin’s masterfully written novel Another Country , one finds the following passage: He leaned up a little and watched her face. Her face would now be, for ever, more mysterious and impenetrable than the face of any stranger. Strangers’ faces hold no secrets because the imagination does not invest them with any. But the face of a lover is an unknown precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possib