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Old Bessi. A comedy from Reykjavík by Jón Trausti.
In Vörður 1.yr 1917 / 1918 11. tbl the story of old Bessi is told.
Jón Trausti's latest book is called Old Bessi. Ægir ðar
together with wisdom and nonsense as it happens. Here it shall be shown
that the poet sees clearly what is around him. Bessi
The old man is a wise man and has much experience in life. A couple, to whom he is well-wisher, visit him after they have announced their engagement. Karl receives them well. "You must not have any children," he said, "or you will bear them out." They ask him why. He answers:
"Haven't you seen how the children grow up in Reykjavík Freedom? Do you want to add to that group?"
Or do you think your children will be an exception?
and you will be able to raise them differently than children
others are raised? — The homes that, in our
days have been the breeding grounds of morality, the safest strongholds
discipline and correction, the pillars of society, — are
torn apart, torn to the roots. The master is at the card club—or the town council. The mistress is at some meeting. The maid is at the dance school.
The old woman writhes in her bed, because everything
The house is freezing cold. The older children are in the youth clubs;
the other on the street — in a kind of disagreement.------------It is
many people grow up in Reykjavík these days
Have you ever walked past a house that is being renovated?
build — preferably in the evening, after the builders have left
home? — Haven't you seen the little kids-angels being
to sneak away with a stick and take it to his mother?
you have passed by the coal bins of merchants or the national treasury. — There the little spirits are a bit more steely and are
with a bag that is prepared for them from home------"
Thus Bessi is made to speak. But the housekeepers and others
are away from their homes frequently on other errands
but Bessi mentions. But in the same place comes with upbringing and
surveillance. Home is homelessness. And these homes
Some members of parliament want to entrust the entire upbringing of the children. — No,
then old Bessi would rather let the children out.
But he is more eccentric than our MPs.
In Vörður 1.yr 1917 / 1918 11. tbl the story of old Bessi is told.
Jón Trausti's latest book is called Old Bessi. Ægir ðar
together with wisdom and nonsense as it happens. Here it shall be shown
that the poet sees clearly what is around him. Bessi
The old man is a wise man and has much experience in life. A couple, to whom he is well-wisher, visit him after they have announced their engagement. Karl receives them well. "You must not have any children," he said, "or you will bear them out." They ask him why. He answers:
"Haven't you seen how the children grow up in Reykjavík Freedom? Do you want to add to that group?"
Or do you think your children will be an exception?
and you will be able to raise them differently than children
others are raised? — The homes that, in our
days have been the breeding grounds of morality, the safest strongholds
discipline and correction, the pillars of society, — are
torn apart, torn to the roots. The master is at the card club—or the town council. The mistress is at some meeting. The maid is at the dance school.
The old woman writhes in her bed, because everything
The house is freezing cold. The older children are in the youth clubs;
the other on the street — in a kind of disagreement.------------It is
many people grow up in Reykjavík these days
Have you ever walked past a house that is being renovated?
build — preferably in the evening, after the builders have left
home? — Haven't you seen the little kids-angels being
to sneak away with a stick and take it to his mother?
you have passed by the coal bins of merchants or the national treasury. — There the little spirits are a bit more steely and are
with a bag that is prepared for them from home------"
Thus Bessi is made to speak. But the housekeepers and others
are away from their homes frequently on other errands
but Bessi mentions. But in the same place comes with upbringing and
surveillance. Home is homelessness. And these homes
Some members of parliament want to entrust the entire upbringing of the children. — No,
then old Bessi would rather let the children out.
But he is more eccentric than our MPs.