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We are palimpsests. We are manuscripts in which the writing has been erased and rewritten, erased and rewritten again. Everything fades, everything leaves a trace.
Jan Grue, I Live a Life Like Yours: A Memoir. B. L. Crook (Translator). (FSG Originals, August 17, 2021)
... this part of me doesn’t have anything to do with that part
© Jan Grue, I live a life like yours: a memoir
Ph. Miloš Vojíř, The tree of Knowledge
...but the days slip by at an uncomfortable speed.
Jan Grue, I Live a Life Like Yours: A Memoir. B. L. Crook (Translator). (FSG Originals, August 17, 2021)
that a place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest
Joan Didion wrote that a place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image. I cannot do this for California, it doesn’t belong to me in this way. Instead, it’s the reverse: I belong to California now or, at least, to my own perception of California, the one I have created for myself... I’ve traveled from Norway to California six times—in 2005, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, and 2014—via Paris, via Amsterdam, via London. California is the same place, with the same sensory memories attached to it. The scent of eucalyptus, the intense sunshine, and the surprisingly crisp air, when are these memories from, from which of the years?
— Jan Grue, I Live a Life Like Yours: A Memoir. B. L. Crook (Translator). (FSG Originals, August 17, 2021)
This is where it ends, because this is where it begins: I dream of another world... Breathe in.
Jan Grue, I Live a Life Like Yours: A Memoir. B. L. Crook (Translator). (FSG Originals, August 17, 2021)
Something was different about the way I moved, my body language, my approach to life. I was changing, that much I knew, but I did not know where I was headed.
Jan Grue, I Live a Life Like Yours: A Memoir. B. L. Crook (Translator). (FSG Originals, August 17, 2021)
This is where it ends, because this is where it begins: I dream of another world…
Breathe in.
© Jan Grue, I Live a Life Like Yours: A Memoir
Ph. Sohei Szincza
It could have...
It could have been different.
I could have lived a different life.
— Jan Grue, I Live a Life Like Yours: A Memoir. B. L. Crook (Translator). (FSG Originals, August 17, 2021)
