Page 46

19 November 2008

Bonnie tagged me with some Bookworm award-meme-thing that seems to just involve copying some words. My kind of meme. The logo is also an uncanny representation of me at work.

The rules say: Pass it on to five other bloggers (pfft), and tell them to open the nearest book to page 46. Write out the fifth sentence on that page, and also the next two to five sentences…The CLOSEST book, not your favourite, or most intellectual!

The closest book is the one I’m reading at the moment, which is sitting next to me on a chair, buried under that damn mohair scarf that still isn’t finished. The book is “The Settlers” by Wilhelm Moberg, book three in The Emigrant Novels, a saga of Swedish immigrants making a new life in North America. From page 46 …

“For several weeks they had hidden him under their barn floor. Three or four times a day they had carried food to him and later they had followed him to North America. The prophet from Biskopskulla had founded Bishop Hill, Illinois, where he intended to build the New Jerusalem. And Erik Janson had seemed to his followers as humanity’s great light, sent by God to restore Christianity. Here in America he would found a new and cleansed Lutheran Church.”

Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson of ABBA took these books, which are part of classic literature in Sweden and composed Kristina från Duvemåla, a musical that was highly successful in Sweden. Plans are afoot to bring an English-language production to life, but in the meantime the cast recording in Swedish has some amazing music and vocals. Just listen to this:

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4 Responses to “Page 46”

Dad
20th November 2008 @ 8:50 am

That is beautiful, Sarah, and very moving, even to a confirmed atheist such as me. You have one life. Make the most of it, because this is not a rehearsal!

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sarahgrace
21st November 2008 @ 4:51 am

Aww… what an inspirational thing for your dad to say.
That production looks quite interesting!

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Kristina from Duvemåla in London : dreamdust
16th April 2010 @ 5:11 pm

[...] is “Du måste finnas” (“You Have To Be There”), which I have written about before. For the first time in her life Kristina doubts her faith, she has lost a child and for the sake of [...]
Egon Holm
19th May 2010 @ 6:31 am

Thanks for your writing.

Just wanted to give you a hint on following Helen Sjöholm’s career on

http://fansofhelen.weebly.com

and even better, come and join us there.

Greetings from Denmark

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