courage (18) Lize Spit
In these troubled times, we asked a number of authors we admire what ‘courage’ means to them. In the coming weeks, you can read their answers here, in the form of a poem, a memory, an anecdote or a more philosophical reflection.
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If you fold a simple sheet of paper forty-two times, you get a bundle that is so thick that you can use it to bridge the distance to the Moon.
In reality, it is impossible to fold a sheet of paper in half so often, unfortunately, but we both just touched the Moon in our minds.
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Translated from the Dutch by Passa Porta
Lize Spit (1988) is a Dutch-speaking novelist who lives in Brussels. After her successful debut novel Het smelt (The Melting, Dutch edition in 2016) she published her second book Ik ben er niet (I'm not here) in 2020.
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