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"Quelques petites p...s pour mes petits pourceaux", Brussels, 1998: a collection of thoughts dedicated by Mon De Rijck to his children and grandchildren - Caro, Rachel, Noé; Joan & Eric, Maya, Thorgal; Carl & Sophie; Kim & David, Merlin; Maud & Jean-Marc; Camille, Jonas. Only the lines that stand on their own are reproduced here, without the drawings made on the first home computers.

تكبير

"Dress a lamb in a wolf's skin and it will act like a wolf. That is why I would rather see you running around naked!"

"For the slightest little ailment they run to the specialists, and in love they trust amateurs."

"The animal may be simple in its complexity, and man simply complexed by his stupidity!"

"At the shrink's, the madmen sit face to face!"

"Brotherly kiss: twice he turned the other cheek. The kick up the backside, that one he serves you himself!"

"Intelligence is measurable, stupidity unlimited."

"The first breath of air brings us closer to the last."

"As a chrysalis, I met cockroaches boasting about their wings. Today I can fly; they stayed cockroaches."

"They fear you, have no fear. They appreciate you, be afraid!"

تكبير

"Of course not, the organs of power are not made up only of the frustrated. You can also make a career out of idiocy!"

"Proof that we live in a democracy: the country is run by our poor... (in spirit)!"

"There are as many deities as there are men, and by God, I am certain I am not even among them."

"You are free to choose your shackles."

"Communicating with an extraterrestrial life form? We cannot even say hello to the ant walking past!"

"Of all the families I have known, the most respectable was the Mafia family."

"Since the dawn of time, over hills and valleys, he searched for his companion. He found her, a fossil nestled in the heart of a rock."

"The left has moved to the right, the centre is being eaten by its extremes."

"In a group, individual madness is multiplied by the exponential number of participants."

"So far, wars have only produced temporary solutions... Luckily, the next one will be the right one!"

"If you are not one of the family, you start with a very big handicap!"

تكبير

"Take away an individual's cultural identity. End of a civilisation!"

"The medical industry works the patient over like a milking machine on a cow's udder."

"If you want to afford integrity, you had better have the means!"

"Tomorrow will come, perhaps!"

"Justice is blind. Poor thing, she does not hear well either!"

"Khaki is the headgear of a good many idiocies."

"Money is dirty. But as toddlers, how they all loved to wallow in the muck!"

"Art is free, or priceless! In between, there is only trade."

"Belgian stories: all these trials of masons, and no one says a word about the building!"

"Humanity is a sandcastle, swept away by the first tide."

"The same principle governs everything!"

المصادر: « Quelques petites p...s pour mes petits pourceaux », Mon De Rijck, Bruxelles, 1998 - archives familiales (textes seuls, illustrations non reprises)