Favourite quotes from Jens Peter Jacobsen

Translation by Anna Grabow. Quotes from Morgen and other stories. Rilke lead me to this.

 "Had I, oh had I a grandson, trala,


And a chest with heaps and heaps of gold,

Then very likely had I had a daughter, trala,

And house and home and meadows untold.



Had I, oh had I a daughter dear, trala,

And house and home and meadows untold,

Then very like had I had a sweetheart, trala.

And a chest with heaps and heaps of gold."

"The councilor was interrupted among his asters, but the


district-judge's son was too irreproachable a blending of nature and

civilization for the councilor to raise objections."

 

"Then he ran again for a long time with a

low moaning. Scattered flashes of memory of happy days came to him,

and when they had passed the darkness was twice as black."

annnd... I ran out of reading steam when he turned out to be a hypothetical psycho (or just a really judged man w/ lots of enemies.) But I shall finish! Eventually.