Josef K st\u00f6tte jag p\u00e5 en hel del – i varje fall den variant som musikaliskt \u00e4ntrade scenen p\u00e5 Sm\u00e5lands Nation p\u00e5 80-talet. Hey hey s\u00e5 j\u00e4kla skoj det var! Eller hur, ni levande och d\u00f6da!?!<\/p>\n
Skoj \u00e4r en sak. Realism en annan. En tredje \u00e4r vad R.L.Stevenson en g\u00e5ng s\u00e5 vackert skrev om ”det nya \u00e5ret och det gamla”. ”Dark forebodings” och m\u00f6rka f\u00f6raningar, som jag och en n\u00e4ra v\u00e4n talade om f\u00f6r en tid sedan. Vackert skrivet \u00e4r det i varje fall, av mannen som gav oss bland annat ”Svarte Riddaren”, ”skattkammar\u00f6n” och ”Dr Jekyll och Mr Hyde”:<\/p>\n
”To look back upon the past year, and see how little we have striven and to what small purpose: and how often we have been cowardly and hung back, or temerarious and rushed unwisely in; and how every day and all day long we have transgressed the law of kindness;\u2014it may seem a paradox, but in the bitterness of these discoveries, a certain consolation resides. Life is not designed to minister to a man’s vanity. He goes upon his long business most of the time with a hanging head, and all the time like a blind child. Full of rewards and pleasures as it is\u2014so that to see the day break or the moon rise, or to meet a friend, or to hear the dinner-call when he is hungry, fills him with surprising joys\u2014this world is yet for him no abiding city. Friendships fall through, health fails, weariness assails him; year after year, he must thumb the hardly varying record of his own weakness and folly. It is a friendly process of detachment. When the time comes that he should go, there need be few illusions left about himself. Here lies one who meant well, tried a little, failed much:\u2014surely that may be his epitaph, of which he need not be ashamed. Nor will he complain at the summons which calls a defeated soldier from the field: defeated, ay, if he were Paul or Marcus Aurelius!\u2014but if there is still one inch of fight in his old spirit, undishonoured. The faith which sustained him in his life-long blindness and life-long disappointment will scarce even be required in this last formality of laying down his arms. Give him a march with his old bones; there, out of the glorious sun-coloured earth, out of the day and the dust and the ecstasy\u2014there goes another Faithful Failure!”
\n— Robert Louis Stevenson, A Christmas Sermon, 1900<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kafka \u00e4r skitkul tycker jag. Upplevelsen beror bara av perspektivet, eller hur? Jag har nu inte l\u00e4st s\u00e5 mycket Kafka: tyckte flera av b\u00f6ckerna var trista som fan och bara tysta och prassliga kopior av mitt eget liv och frustrerande … Forts\u00e4tt l\u00e4sa →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henriksundstrom.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henriksundstrom.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henriksundstrom.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henriksundstrom.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henriksundstrom.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/henriksundstrom.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henriksundstrom.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henriksundstrom.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henriksundstrom.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}