“On the Dutch side, I’m grateful, above all, to Cees Nooteboom—poet, journalist, novelist—for repeated trips to the polder, for an inexhaustible fund of information on proper names and place names, political parties, religion, national customs, for correction of my scanty pocket-dictionary Dutch, introductions to local figures who were themselves sources of information. It was through him and the singer Liesbeth List that I conceived the love of Holland that I believe shows through in the text. ...Because it was not possible for him to read the manuscript, there must still be many errors, for which he bears no responsibility. I owe him, too, the notion of Holland as an imaginary country and a number of hints for the plot, some of which were acted on, some not.Then Hans van Mierlo, till recently deputy and leader of the parliamentary fraction “Democrats ’66,” who aided and abetted in various ways, inter alia by arranging a lively visit to Parliament and introductions to notables.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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