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Denne helga, denne uka og sikkert neste uke og, releser jeg en av "favorittbøkene" mine, Celine's Death on the Installment Plan. Romanen provoserer meg, innholdet utfordrer mitt syn på hva som er rett og galt, og det er lett å la det mørke innholdet overskygge den litterære opplevelsen boka kan gi.
"Celine is my Proust!" Philip Roth once said. "Even if his anti- Semitism made him an abject, intolerable person. To read him, I have to suspend my Jewish conscience, but I do it, because anti-Semitism isn't at the heart of his books."
- fra "A Gentle Celine" by Adelaide Docx, - The New Yorker - May 27. 2013

På iphone leser jeg Vi var mange, kvinneaktivister fra 70-tallet forteller, av Ellen Aanesen (red.) med Unni Rustad, Berit Morland og Linn Stalsberg.
Boken tar meg tilbake til 1970-tallet, da barnehageplass var en luksus og man måtte legge frem vielsesattest for å få tildelt leilighet på studentbyen. :)

Det hadde passet med teksten til "Vi er mange", som dagens dikt, men jeg har hatt en uke med Bukowski og velger å avslutte med hans fine dikt The Bluebird
- God lesehelg!

the bluebird

there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going
to let anybody see
you

there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I pour whisky on him and inhale
cigarette smoke
and the whores and the bartenders
and the grocery clerks
never know that
he's
in there.

there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say
stay down, do you want to mess
me up?
you want to blow my book sales in
Europe?

there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too clever, I only let him out
at night sometimes
when everybody's asleep.
I say, I know that you're there,
so don't be sad.

then I put him back,
but he's singing a little
in there, I haven't quite let him
die
and we sleep together like
that
with our
secret pact
and it's nice enough to
make a man
weep, but I don't
weep, do
you?

• Charles Bukowski

Flott dikt, takk for at du delte:)

Sant.