Knudstrup School, Løve
29 May 1985
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‘My habit of being a dreamer is filled with the joy of melancholy.’
Knudstrup School, Løve
29 May 1985
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‘The anglophone world, we have to infer, has run out of words for its own feelings.’
Daisy Hildyard on the wisdom of scarecrows.
‘What is the read receipt for?’
Lillian Fishman on texting, power and the ethics of leaving a friend on read.
‘Like pretty much everyone who uses the internet, I have seen many terrible things that I did not search for and that I cannot unsee.’
Rosanna McLaughlin on what the internet thinks she wants.
‘I have a pathological addiction to the internet, which I indulge with the excuse of making art. It rarely translates to anything good and mostly leaves me overstimulated and afraid.’
Paul Dalla Rosa on excess and the internet.
‘rumors of bees on speedwell, / no oxidative stress just / effortless pollination’
Two poems by Sylvia Legris.
Suzanne Brøgger was born in Copenhagen in 1944. She is the author of more than thirty works of fiction, essays, poetry and memoir, including The Jade Cat and the autobiographical trilogy of liberation, experimentation and identity, Crème Fraîche, Yes and Transparency. She has been a member of the Danish Academy since 1997.
More about the author →Suzanne Brøgger was born in Copenhagen in 1944. She is the author of more than thirty works of fiction, essays, poetry and memoir, including The Jade Cat and the autobiographical trilogy of liberation, experimentation and identity, Crème Fraîche, Yes and Transparency. She has been a member of the Danish Academy since 1997.
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‘You were Father’s and I was Mother’s.’
Memoir by Suzanne Brøgger, translated from the Danish by Caroline Waight.
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‘How far can one deviate from the accepted pieties before one is kicked out?’
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