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Walk in Beauty

Musings of a word-shy Jutlander

Posts tagged with "literature"

No song

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A friend of mine is a singer-songwriter at amateur level and has a son who is a rather successful producer in the pop industry. This friend found out that I do a bit of writing, and he asked me if I could write a song text for him.

I had to decline, but his request brought back the memory from the endless list of might-have-beens in my life.

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Which Zarathustra?

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I am reading Doktor Glas, Hjalmar Söderberg's miraculously beautiful novel about a murder. (Yep, it's true!) I have read it many times through the years. This time I am reading the Swedish original on line at Project Runeberg.

It contains a quote that I have not been able to verify:

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For us who fail

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I do not remember if I have quoted anything of this before, or if I only thought about doing so. But that does not really matter much. The words of those two great writers are certainly worthy of being repeated again and again and again:

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Literary love

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Have you ever fallen in love with someone in a novel? Or at least felt that such a literary character was someone that you could easily love in real life?

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Done you wrong

When this little story first came to my mind, it was a part of another, larger, story. But it did not quite seem to fit there. Maybe it can stand on its own?

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Touch

A short story. Hardly a story at all.

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Living the questions

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I stumbled upon something by Rainer Maria Rilke:

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