Siden så mange leser Stefansson's Heaven and Hell - legger jeg ved en link til et intervju med forfatteren - som Paul Engels gjorde for The Maclehose Press.
Two sons were drowned in a distant ocean, and one son and a daughter had disappeared to a land even more remote, America, which is farther than death.
A woman should leave her hands on the table and not rest them in her lap during dinner to avoid giving the impression that hanky-panky is going on below.
Levitte understood the key to seduction in diplomacy as well as other areas of life: to find common ground and shared values and build on them. Avoid confrontation and finger-pointing even if you are convinced you are right. Never let the other side lose face. Instead, get the other side to believe it is the winner.
Without France, the world would be alone.
- Victor Hugo
She dressed badly.
- Francoise Giroud, the writer, upon learning of the death of Simone de Beauvoir.
Skjønte at det var en vits, men ikke poenget med den. Kanskje fordi jeg ikke er ungdom.
Her arbeides det aktivt for at norsk litteratur også skal kunne leses i ny skrud.
As a child he had known instinctively that it was always better to tell a partial truth with a willing aspect than to tell a perfect truth in a defensive way.
Denne boken hadde en vakker, intens råskap og et samspill mellom mennesker og natur som bergtok meg omtrent fra første side. :)
Lykke til med felleslesingen!
Et enkelt valg. Ingen bøker kan måle seg med J.K.Stefansson's Heaven and Hell. i februar!
Jeg bruker den tiden boken tar, enten det er en ettermiddag, en dag, en uke, en måned eller flere år!
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer "yes" without having asked any clear question.
- Albert Camus, The Fall
Stefansson - han er sgu sin egen!
Den skjønte jeg ikke. Ingen av delene gjør jo det.
Et merkelig vesen.
En klok mann har sagt at nest etter det å miste sin mor, er det få ting som er sunnere for små barn enn det å miste sin far. Selv om jeg på ingen måte kan være enig i disse ordene, faller det meg likevel ikke inn å si dem direkte imot. Selv ville jeg uttrykt denne læren uten agg til verden, eller kanskje heller uten den smerte som ligger i ordenes blotte klang.
Brekkukotkrønike av Halldor Laxness
At the time of the Monica Lewinsky scandal in 1998, CBS News aired a lighthearted report on the French and their attitude toward infidelity.
D'ORMESSON: The whole French culture has love at its center, and perhaps cheating.
CBS REPORTER: Cheating is that important?
D'ORMESSON: Ah, cheating, cheating - let us say "looking elsewhere."............
Each time you cheat, you marry the new woman in America. And we keep the same wife and we have several mistresses. Roughly speaking, that's the position between your culture and ours...........
When you are well brought up, you try to cheat without too much harm, perhaps......... We cheat in so many, many, many hundred years that now you know how to manage. Don't try. It's very difficult, you know?
CBS REPORTER: You have to be French?
D'ORMESSON: You have to be French.
CBS REPORTER: Are you serious?
D'ORMESSON: Yes.
"You can say everything in one look, and yet you can always deny the look, for it cannot be quoted word for word."
(Stendhal)
Jeg startet med Fante og Bukowski som 15 -16 åring, idag nesten to kvinnealdre senere leses de fortsatt. ;)
The boy helps with cleaning up after the meeting of the Craftmen's Association, which went smoothly. Only two who vomited, only one who passed out, and one other who went home with a broken nose; important meetings, said the chairman to Helga, they brings us together, it's the solidarity that counts, otherwise the nobs march over us and trample us into the shit.