#johan bojer

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By Day and By Night. Johan Bojer. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1937. Second printing. Original dust jacket by J. O'H. Cosgrave II. 

Norwegian novel of "a disillusioned armament king, who, tortured by the ghosts of the men his machine guns had killed, renounces wealth and life itself for an ideal."

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"If you came back, you wanted to leave again. If you went away, you longed to come back. Wherever you were, you could hear the call of the homeland, like the note of a herdsman's horn far away in the hills. You had one home out there and one over here, and yet you were an alien in both places. Your true abiding place was the vision of something very far off, and your soul like the waves, always restless and forever in motion."

Johan Bojer, "The Immigrants"

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Kaneles

When I move out, I am so getting a cat like this one, called Kaneles.. It's from a book I read once, and it was so sad, I was crying when this guy named Kaneles drowned. Pronounced like Kah-neh-lehs ;) The book is called 'The Last Viking' about fishermen in Lofoten (north in Norway). It's fictional and extremely sad at the end.

It's only four days now, before Lina, Vilde, Ida, Eline, 80 others and I are going to Oxford, and I cannot wait! I've been talking to some of the people who's in this facebook group we made about a year ago, and they all seem lovely!

My mum and my sister, Christine just went to our cabin, 'Fjellheim,' and they won't be back by tomorrow. Dad is out on his mototrcycle, and I feel so free. I can do whatever I want to, except ruin the whole house.

Bit random post, really, but what can I do? Besides, it's summer, the time for being random and spontaneous, right?

Now I'm going to find my lip-balm, and then I'll watch rubbish on telly or go for a run. I've been running a lot lately, trying to keep it up every day this summer. I even have a 'running buddy' once I get to Oxford ;)

Btw, the picture was taken in Malaga this winter.

- Helene