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    6.11.12

    I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America


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    FOR YOU, O DEMOCRACY 
    Come, I will make the continent indissoluble,
    I will make the most splendid race the sun ever shone upon,
    I will make divine magnetic lands,
       With the love of comrades,
        With the life-long love of comrades.

    I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the great lakes, and all over the prairies,
    I will make inseparable cities with their arms about each other’s necks,
       By the love of comrades,
        By the manly love of comrades.

    For you these from me, O Democracy, to serve you ma femme!
    For you, for you I am trilling these songs.
    (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1892)
    (The linebreaks are a bit wonky. I'm sorry.)

    1.11.12

    Årets Norge

    Denne blogg har som kjent kun en tradisjon, og her er den:
    Året har 16 måneder: november, december
    januar, februar, marts, april, maj,
    juni, juli, august, september, oktober,
    november, november, november, november.
    (Henrik Nordbrandt, Håndens skælven i november)
    Eller, som salig Emily Dickinson pleide å si:
    November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.
    Jeg tror vi heretter inkluderer Emily i denne mangeårige tradisjonen.

    EDIT: Fant hele sitatet. Her:
    It is also November. The noons are more laconic and the sundowns sterner, and Gibraltar lights make the village foreign. November always seemed to me the Norway of the year. 
    [To Elizabeth Holland, November 1865, II, 444]