Archive for December 31st, 2007
Rødby-Puttgarden. And Back.
Helle Helle: Rødby-Puttgarden. Another brilliant and deeply distressing Danish novel. Recommended, unless you suffer from chronic depression or the very idea of Lollandish flatness fills you with angst.
Bonus question for litterature teachers: What does Fehmer Belt symbolise in the novel?
Next I head for the heaps of the New York Review. Essays about Gordon Brown and conservative American columnists are just what I need now.
Obama vs. Steincke
If Paul Krugman’s description is correct, then Barack Obama is proposing the same kind of mandatory non-mandatory health insurance which K.K. Steincke proposed in Denmark in 1913 and managed to implement in … 1933.