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By limiting Donald’s access to his own feelings and rendering many of them unacceptable, Fred perverted his son’s perception of the world and damaged his ability to live in it. His capacity to be his own person, rather than an extension of his father’s ambitions became severely limited.

Too Much - Never Enough by Mary L.Trump

Nei, ingen samling som utmerker seg i farten, men med på et flyttelass fra Canada befant bl.a. «The Moslem Wife and Other Stories» og ulike utgaver av «Collected Stories» seg, så jeg regner med at førstnevnte ble valgt av en bestemt grunn.

Mavis Gallant er en av Canadas beste short stories forfattere.De novellene jeg har lest av henne har temaer som inviterer til ettertanke. På baksiden av en av hennes bøker står følgende kloke ord:

Stories are not chapters of novels. They should not be read one after another, as if they were meant to follow along. Read one. Shut the book. Read something else. Stories can wait

• og det rådet følges alltid, både ved lesing av noveller og dikt. :)

Hjelper denne historien fra Native American Animal Stories - told by Joseph Bruchac?

Creation
How Grandmother Spider Named the Clans

After Tawa, the Sky God, and Grandmother Spider had made Earth and all of the things upon it, Tawa went back up into the heavens. Grandmother Spider remained with the animals and all of the people there in the four great caves of the underworld, It was left to Grandmother Spider to put things on Earth into order. So Grandmother Spider gathered all of the living creatures around her. She began to separate the people into the different Indian nations, telling them how it would be from then on for them. So it was that she made the Ute and the Zuni and the Comanche and the Pueblo people and the Hopi and all the others. She named them and from then they knew their names. So too she gave all of the animals their names so that they also would know who they were.

Then Grandmother Spider saw that life would not be good for the many animals and people there in the darkness of the underworld. With her two grandsons, the Hero Twins, beside her, she led the animals and the people up out of the four caverns. She led them till they came to an opening into the world above. They came out there next to Colorado River in the place where the people still go to gather salt. As they came out, the turkey dragged his tail in the mud and his tail has been black-tipped ever since then.

Grandmother Spider sent the mourning dove ahead to find good places for the people to settle, places where there were springs and good soil for corn. Then Grandmother Spider separated the people into clans. She chose one animal to lead each of those groups of people and from then on those people carried the name of that animal. So it was that Snake Clan and the Antilope Clan, the Mountain Lion Clan and the Deer Clan and the other clans came to be among the Hopi. The people each followed their clan animal and when they came to the place to build their homes, there they settled and there they live to this day.

I dette intervjuet forteller forfatteren om edderkoppbeina

Det forstår seg !

Mange gode bøker på listen din, men jeg savner Dilettanten av Terje Holtet Larsen. Det er en av mine favorittbøker, og den ble utgitt i 2012.

Carson McCullers

she died of alcoholism
wrapped in a blanket
on a deck chair
on an ocean
steamer.

all her books of
terrified loneliness

all her books about
the cruelty
of loveless love

were all that was left
of her

as the strolling vacationer
discovered her body

notified the captain

and she was quickly dispatched
to somewhere else
on the ship

as everything
continued just

as

she had written it.

• Charles Bukowski

Denne tråden bør frem i lyset igjen!

All three of the Drumm brothers were at the funeral, although one of us was in a coffin.

• Our Little Cruelties by Liz Nugent