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Post by jk on Oct 31, 2021 14:34:40 GMT -5
We drove through a tunnel and all of a sudden a fjord lay beneath us, wide and blue, with farmhouses here and there along one shore and along the other a steep treeless mountain slope, bluish in the hazy sunlight. ... And Vanja's voice from the back seat. [Vanja is the author's elder daughter, then five or six years old.] "When are we there, daddy?" "It's not much further. Chin up." "But it's so boring, daddy!" "Look at that! A waterfall on the other side!" "I can see it." "Shall I put some music on?" "Yes." So I put on Dennis Wilson, which is what Vanja calls car music every time I play it at home. In the mirror I saw her leaning back, looking blankly out of the window.
Translated by jk from the Dutch version of part 6 of Min camp (My Struggle) by the Norwegian author Karl Knausgård
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Post by jk on Jan 4, 2022 7:17:33 GMT -5
Bon voyage, Dennis, buried at sea 38 years ago today.
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Post by jk on Oct 28, 2022 14:51:47 GMT -5
"Got To Know The Woman" sees Dennis making a respectful nod (and chuckle) in the direction of The Killer, aka Jerry Lee Lewis, who died today aged 87. May they both rock on in eternity... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Lee_Lewis
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