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AUTUMN 2014 – 9th grade
Love
TErminprøver engelsk
Informasjon
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med læreren og bruke lærebøker og andre kilder. Under forberedelsen er alle hjelpemidler tillatt, inkludert
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oversettelsesprogrammer. Alle kilder du benytter deg av på prøven, direkte eller indirekte, skal oppgis slik
at det går an å finne fram til kilden. Dersom du har med deg utskrifter og sitater fra nettsider, må du oppgi
adresse og nedlastingsdato.
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langsvaroppgave (Task 3 A, B, C eller D). Du skal svare på engelsk.
Nynorsk:
Førebuingsdel og prøve
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og bruke lærebøker og andre kjelder. Under førebuinga er alle hjelpemiddel tillatne, inkludert bruk
av internett. På prøven kan du ikkje bruke internett og andre verktøy som tillèt kommunikasjon, eller
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nedlasting oppgjevast.
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contents
Perspectives on love
Love surrounds us. Everywhere. Stories about love are found in music and
books, movies and TV-shows – and there is love in real life, of course. But what
is love? In this issue of Perspectives Magazine you will read a poem about
what love might feel like. We will reveal the magical ingredients of a romantic
relationship and you will, among others, meet a young Native American boy
who describes the love he has for his grandmother. Hopefully you will love it!
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Happy reading!
PART A
PART B
FACTS OF THE MATTER
Love
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Love and romance
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Love at FIrst site on the New York subway
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Fated attraction
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THE STORIES I HAVE HEARD
The Absolutely True Diary of
a Part-Time Indian
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The Fault in Our Stars
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Love is
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Love
Love. A word we use often and an emotion known to most of us.
Love can be joyful, painful, fulfilling and rewarding. Yet, what is
love – truly? Many famous people have shared their thoughts on
love. Here is what some of them have said:
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
– Elbert Hubbard
If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then
there’s salvation in life. Even if you can’t get together with that person.
an emotion
en følelse /
ein følelse, ei kjensle
fulfilling
tilfredsstillende/
tilfredsstillande
rewarding
givende/givande
salvation
frelse
– Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is
finally better than your dreams.
– Dr. Seuss
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot
drive out hate: only love can do that.
— Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
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Part a – facts of the matter / love
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
– William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving
someone deeply gives you courage.
– Lao Tzu
Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
– Lord Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam
Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
– Oscar Wilde
When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You
know that your name is safe in their mouth.
– Jess C. Scott, The Intern
I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of
control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my
worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.
– Marilyn Monroe
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Love and romance
We’ve all experienced love. We’ve loved (and been loved by) parents,
brothers, sisters, friends, even pets. But romantic love is different. It’s
an intense, new feeling unlike any of these other ways of loving.
Why Do We Fall in Love?
Loving and being loved adds richness to our lives. When people feel
close to others they are happier and even healthier. Love helps us feel
important, understood, and secure. But each kind of love has its own
distinctive feel. The kind of love we feel for a parent is different from
our love for a baby brother or best friend. And the kind of love we feel
in romantic relationships is its own unique type of love.
Our ability to feel romantic love develops during adolescence.
Teens all over the world begin to notice passionate feelings of
attraction. Even in cultures where people are not allowed to act on or
express these feelings, they’re still there. It’s a natural part of growing
up to develop romantic feelings and sexual attraction to others. These
new feelings can be exciting – or even confusing at first.
to experience
å oppleve
secure
trygg
a distinctive feel
en spesiell følelse /
ei spesiell kjensle
adolescence
tenårene/tenåra
passionate
lidenskapelig/lidenskapleg
to act on
å gjøre noe med /
å gjere noko med
to develop
å utvikle
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Part a – facts of the matter / love and romance
The Magical Ingredients of Love Relationships
Love is such a powerful human emotion that experts are constantly
studying it. They’ve discovered that love has three main qualities:
1.Attraction is the “chemistry” part of love. It’s all about the physical –
even sexual – interest that two people have in each other. Attraction
is responsible for the desire we feel to kiss and hold the object of our
affection. Attraction is also what’s behind the flushed, nervous-butexcited way we feel when that person is near.
2.Closeness is the bond that develops when we share thoughts and
feelings that we don’t share with anyone else. When you have
this feeling of closeness with your boyfriend or girlfriend, you feel
supported, cared for, understood, and accepted for who you are.
Trust is a big part of this.
3.Commitment is the promise or decision to stick by the other person
through the ups and downs of the relationship.
These three qualities of love can be combined in different ways to
make different kinds of relationships. For example, closeness without
attraction is the kind of love we feel for best friends. We share secrets
and personal stuff with them, we support them, and they stand by
us. But we are not romantically interested in them. Attraction without
closeness is more like a crush or infatuation. You’re attracted to
someone physically but don’t know the person well enough yet to
feel the closeness that comes from sharing personal experiences and
feelings.
Romantic love is when attraction and closeness are combined. Lots
of relationships grow out of an initial attraction (a crush or “love
at first sight”) and develop into closeness. It’s also possible for a
friendship to move from closeness into attraction as two people realise
their relationship is more than “just friends” and they have become
interested in one another in a romantic way. For people falling in love
for the first time, it can be hard to tell the difference between the
intense, new feelings of physical attraction and the deeper closeness
that goes with being in love.
a desire
et ønske / eit ønske
the object of our affection
her: den vi er tiltrukket av /
han eller ho vi er tiltrekte av
flushed
begeistret/begeistra
to support
å støtte
a commitment
en forpliktelse /
ei forplikting
to stick by
å forbli tro mot /
å vere tru mot
a quality
en egenskap /
ein eigenskap
an infatuation
en forelskelse /
ei forelsking
initial
første
to realise
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[…]
Relationships – whether they last two weeks, two months, two years,
or a lifetime – are all opportunities to experience love on its many
different levels. We learn both how to love and how to be loved in
return. Romance provides us with a chance to discover our own selves
as we share with someone new. We learn the things we love about
ourselves, the things we’d like to change, and the qualities and values
we look for in a partner. Loving relationships teach us self-respect as
well as respect for others. Love is one of the most fulfilling things we
can have in our lives. If romance hasn’t found you yet, don’t worry –
there’s plenty of time. And the right person is worth the wait.
© The Nemours Foundation / KidsHealth. Reprinted with permission.
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Love at first site
on the New York subway
A brief encounter in a New York subway train prompted a romantically
inclined man to set up his own internet site just to find the woman he
saw.
Patrick Moberg, 21, said it was – for him at least – love at first sight
when he exchanged glances with a rosy-cheeked young woman while
taking the train from Manhattan to Brooklyn on Sunday. But just as he
had plucked up the courage to talk to her, the train stopped and he lost
her in the crowd.
Undeterred, Mr Moberg, a web designer, set up a new site –
www.nygirlofmydreams.com – which was dedicated to finding her. He
drew a picture of the girl, who was wearing blue shorts, blue tights,
and a red flower in her hair. He added his mobile phone number, email
address and an appeal for help in finding her.
Amazingly, in a city of eight million people, it worked. Within hours,
Mr Moberg’s inbox had been inundated with emails and his phone
was ringing continually. Some of the emails came from women who
admitted they were not the girl, but asked him to pick them instead.
to prompt
å drive
romantically inclined
romantisk anlagt /
romantisk av seg
a glance
et blikk / eit blikk
to pluck up the courage
å finne mot
undeterred
ustoppelig/ustoppeleg
inundated
oversvømt/overflødd
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Part a – facts of the matter / love at first site
On Tuesday night, a friend of the woman contacted him and sent him
a picture so he could confirm her identity. Mr Moberg announced
the breakthrough on his website with a notice entitled: “Found Her!
Seriously!” The mysterious subway brunette was later named as
Camille Hayton, a 22-year-old Australian magazine intern.
[…]
Yesterday, the pair appeared on Good Morning America, ABC’s
television breakfast show, having met for dinner the previous night.
Mr Moberg claimed that he hadn’t been nervous about meeting her,
adding: “We totally clicked.” Perhaps sounding a little more cautious,
Miss Hayton said she “couldn’t not meet” Mr Moberg after he went
to so much trouble to find her. Mr Moberg said he had spent the
journey “psyching myself up to introduce myself” but now wonders
what he would have said anyway. “I don’t think anything I could have
said would have been able to sanely convey how strongly I felt about
her.” He added: “As soon as she had disappeared, I felt an undeniable
urge to reach out to find her. The only way that seemed remotely
possible, without seeming like a total creep, was to put up a totally
straightforward recap of what happened, and hope it somehow made
its way to her.”
Miss Hayton admitted that the encounter was a complete fluke as
she had only been using the train to go to a friend’s home because her
own house had just burned down. Mr Moberg said he would be giving
no more updates on his website. He said: “Unlike all the romantic
comedies and bad pop songs, you’ll have to make up your own ending
for this.”
© Tom Leonard / The Daily Telegraph. Used by permission.
Links:
http://nygirlofmydreams.com/
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to confirm
å bekrefte / å stadfeste
a magazine intern
en lærling i et magasin /
ein lærling i eit magasin
to click
å finne tonen
cautious
forsiktig
to psych oneself up
å manne seg opp
sanely
med fornuft
to convey
å formidle
undeniable
ubestridelig /
uomtvisteleg, utvilsam
an urge
en trang / ein trong
remotely
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a recap
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ei oppsummering
a fluke
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eit lykketreff
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Fated attraction
by Lynne Wallis
Most people marry a person they love and their families accept
and respect this decision. However, in some cultures arranged
marriages are more common, where the parents of the bride and
the groom decide that their children would be a good match and
therefore should marry. Arranged marriages can also be happy
marriages, but this Sikh girl living in England struggles with her
parents’ view on marriage and tradition.
a groom
en brudgom /
ein brudgom
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prospective
potensielle
pride
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Amarjit (not her real name) and Simon meet most days, often for only
an hour, at lunchtime or after work. In the four years they have known
each other, they have spent a couple of holidays together, with Amarjit
telling her parents she was visiting a girlfriend in France. They hope one
day they may be able to live together but they are in their late twenties
and feel that, for them, time is running out.
“My parents started introducing me to prospective husbands over
three years ago. Until then, they concentrated on my older sisters;
now it’s my turn. Getting me married off is all that matters to them at
the moment and, until that day comes, they say they can’t face their
friends with pride.
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Part a – facts of the matter / fated attraction
“My family did allow me to go to university but didn’t want me to
develop western ideals. As I see it, you can’t have one without the
other. I spent three years away studying and I now work with mostly
English people. Obviously I am influenced by the outside world. For
instance, I love to see friends but that isn’t part of our culture. As a
woman, I am not even allowed to drink alcohol.
“Sikh parents don’t trust their daughters to pick up just the good
bits about English culture, you see. They are worried that we’ll go and
start sleeping with loads of men or something. Women are treated
like second-class citizens with no opinions. They just have to do what
they’re told to please their families.
“Simon and I were instantly attracted to each other. We met through
work and started having lunch together. Gradually we became good
friends and it’s progressed from there. He’s a great friend to me and
a real source of strength. I do worry that he will get fed up and end it
all. But he doesn’t put pressure on me – I think he realises I am under
enough pressure from the other side.
“When my family first started bringing these blokes round to meet
me, I began to get frightened about my future. I felt I could no longer
keep our relationship a secret and I told my father about Simon. He
was very shocked and he hit me really hard. He couldn’t handle it. It
is terrifying when people you love threaten you. My mother says that
if I ran off with an English man she would kill herself. What would she
and Dad have to live for, she says. But when I tell them I don’t want
an arranged marriage, they don’t listen. I don’t think they care if I am
happy or not. Honour and tradition are what matters.
“I wish they could just meet Simon, but I know they would never
agree to it. He’s got all the qualities they are looking for in a husband
except that he isn’t a Sikh. They feel that if we got married and it all
went wrong, they wouldn’t know his culture or his temperament and
that they wouldn’t be able to help us because of that. Asian marriages
are not so much of two people as of two families; this, they say, gives a
marriage strength. My family believe a marriage for love wouldn’t have
as strong a foundation or chance of survival if things went wrong.
“I find it totally embarrassing when I have to meet men at the house.
I am only told about it two hours before they arrive, usually with their
mother and sisters, who look me up and down to see if I am pretty
western
vestlige/vestlege
influenced by
påvirket av / påverka av
loads of
mengder av
a citizen
en (stats)borger /
ein (stats)borgar
to please
å behage /
å gjere nokon til lags
instantly
umiddelbart /
med ein gong
to progress
å utvikle
a source
en kilde / ei kjelde
to get fed up
å bli lei
pressure
press
a bloke
en fyr / ein fyr
to handle it
å takle det
honour
ære
temperament
sinnelag, gemytt
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enough. I have to get dressed in Indian clothes and wait upstairs until
I am called. We greet each other and talk Punjabi, and we are never
allowed to be alone. It’s awful. It makes me laugh when they ask,
within minutes of meeting me, how many children I want. But my
family say I should just answer the questions to please the man – say
yes, I love doing housework – then do what I want when I am married
[…]
“I suppose some arranged marriages do work out but a lot of people
must be deeply unhappy. Asian people of my parents’ generation
think that if you fall in love with somebody, they could just leave you
the next day, whereas an arranged marriage is based on more stable
foundations. I don’t know if I’ll end up doing it. I don’t want to but they
put so much pressure on, they really do. They say I just don’t know
what it’s like and that once I’ve done it, I will be really happy.
© Guardian News & Media Ltd 2014. Used by permission.
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mens
a stable foundation
et stabilt grunnlag /
eit stabilt grunnlag
Part b – The stories
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Getty Images / Grant Faint
The Absolutely True Diary
of a Part-Time Indian
by Sherman Alexie
Junior is a young Native American who grows up in the poor and
depressing Spokane Indian Reservation. One day his teacher tells
him, that to find hope, he must leave the reservation. So Junior
quits his school, Wellpinit, and starts going to the white kids’
school at Reardan outside the reservation. In this excerpt, he talks
about his experiences from inside and outside of the reservation,
and the people he loves – especially his grandmother.
an excerpt
et utdrag / eit utdrag
versus
kontra, imot
random
spesiell (slanguttrykk)
Red Versus White
You probably think I’ve completely fallen in love with white people and
that I don’t see anything good in Indians. Well, that’s false. I love my
big sister. I think she’s double crazy and random. Ever since she moved,
she’s sent me all these great Montana postcards. Beautiful landscapes
and beautiful Indians. Buffalo. Rivers. Huge insects. Great postcards.
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She still can’t find a job, and she’s still living in that crappy little trailer.
But she’s happy and working hard on her book. She made a New Year’s
resolution to finish her book by summertime.
Her book is about hope, I guess. I think she wants me to share in her
romance. I love her for that.
And I love my mother and father and my grandma.
Ever since I’ve been at Reardan, and seen how great parents do their
parenting, I realize that my folks are pretty good. Sure, my dad has a
drinking problem and my mom can be a little eccentric, but they make
sacrifices for me. They worry about me. They talk to me. And best of
all, they listen to me.
I’ve learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their
children. And, trust me, there are plenty of Reardan kids who get
ignored by their parents. There are white parents, especially fathers,
who never come to the school. They don’t come for their kids’ games,
concerts, plays, or carnivals. I’m friends with some white kids, and I’ve
never met their fathers. That’s absolutely freaky.
On the rez, you know every kid’s father, mother, grandparents, dog,
cat, and shoe size. I mean, yeah, Indians are screwed up, but we’re
really close to each other. We KNOW each other. Everybody knows
everybody.
But despite the fact that Reardan is a tiny town, people can still be
strangers to each other. I’ve learned that white people, especially
fathers, are good at hiding in plain sight […] So, okay, I’m not all goofyeyed in love with white people, all right? Plenty of the old white guys
give me the stink eye just for being Indian. And a lot of them think I
shouldn’t be in the school at all.
I’m realistic, okay? I’ve thought about these things. And maybe I
haven’t done enough thinking, but I’ve done enough to know that it’s
better to live in Reardan than in Wellpinit. Maybe only slightly better.
But from where I’m standing, slightly better is about the size of the
Grand Canyon.
And, hey, do you want to know the very best thing about Reardan?
It’s Penelope, of course. And maybe Gordy. And do you want to know
what the very best thing was about Wellpinit?
New Year´s resolution
nyttårsforsett
eccentric
eksentrisk, underlig /
eksentrisk, underleg
to make sacrifices
å ofre noe for andre /
å ofre noko for andre
rez (short for reservation)
reservat
despite the fact
til tross for / trass i
in plain sight
godt synlig / godt synleg
goofy-eyed
skjeløyd / skjegløygd
give me the stink eye
gir meg det onde øyet /
gir meg det vonde auget
fortsetter på neste side 
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Part b – The stories i have heard / the absolutely true diary
My grandmother. She was amazing. She was the most amazing
person in the world. Do you want to know the very best thing about my
grandmother?
She was tolerant.
And I know that’s a hilarious thing to say about your grandmother. I
mean, when people compliment their grandmothers, especially their
Indian grandmothers, they usually say things like, “My grandmother is
so wise” and “My grandmother is so kind” and “My grandmother has
seen everything”. And, yeah, my grandmother was smart and kind and
had traveled to about 100 different Indian reservations, but that had
nothing to do with her greatness. My grandmother’s greatest gift was
tolerance.
Now, in the old days, Indians used to be forgiving of any kind of
eccentricity. In fact, weird people were often celebrated. Epileptics
were often shamans because people just assumed that God gave
seizure-visions to the lucky ones.
Gay people were seen as magical, too. I mean, like in many cultures,
men were viewed as warriors and women were viewed as caregivers.
But gay people, being both male and female, were seen as both
warriors and caregivers. Gay people could do anything. They were like
Swiss Army knives!
My grandmother had no use for all the gay bashing and homophobia
in the world, especially among other Indians. “Jeez,” she said. “Who
cares if a man wants to marry another man? All I want to know is
who’s going to pick up all the dirty socks?” Of course, ever since white
people showed up and brought along their Christianity and their fears
of eccentricity, Indians have gradually lost all of their tolerance. Indians
can be just as judgmental and hateful as any white person.
But not my grandmother. She still hung onto that old-time Indian
spirit, you know? She always approached each new person and each
new experience the exact same way.
[…]
Of course, my grandmother had met thousands, tens of thousands, of
other Indians at powwows all over the country. Every powwow Indian
knew her. Yep, my grandmother was powwow-famous. Everybody
hilarious
latterlig/latterleg
a shaman
en sjaman, åndemaner /
ein sjaman, åndemanar
seizure-visions
syner under et epileptisk
anfall / syner under eit
epileptisk anfall
a caregiver
en omsorgsperson /
ein omsorgsperson
gay bashing
hetsing av homofile
judgmental
dømmende/dømmande
a powwow
en samling, fest hvor
indianere møtes /
ei samling, fest der
indianarar møtest
fortsetter på neste side 
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loved her; she loved everybody. In fact, last week, she was walking back
home from a mini powwow at the Spokane Tribal Community Center,
when she was struck and killed by a drunk driver.
Yeah, you read that right.
She didn’t die right away. The reservation paramedics kept her alive
long enough to get to the hospital in Spokane, but she died during
emergency surgery. Massive internal injuries. At the hospital, my
mother wept and wailed. She’d lost her mother. When anybody, no
matter how old they are, loses a parent, I think it hurts the same as if
you were only five years old, you know? I think all of us are always five
years old in the presence and absence of our parents.
My father was all quiet and serious with the surgeon, a big and
handsome white guy.
“Did she say anything before she died?” he asked.
“Yes,” the surgeon said. “She said, ‘Forgive him.’”
“Forgive him?” my father asked.
“I think she was referring to the drunk driver who killed her.”
Wow.
My grandmother’s last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love,
and tolerance.
[…]
© Sherman Alexie, 2007. Used by permission.
Links:
http://www.ducksters.com/history/native_americans.php
For more on Sherman Alexie:
http://fallsapart.com/
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a drunk driver
en fyllekjører /
ein fyllekøyrar
internal injuries
indre skader /
indre skadar
to weep
å gråte
to wail
å jamre, skrike
presence
nærvær
absence
fravær/fråvær
referring to
her: mente/meinte
Part b – The stories
Part a i–have
factsheard
of the/ the
matter
fault
/ in our stars
The Kobal Collection / Temple Hill Entertainment / James Bridges
The Fault in Our Stars
by John Green
The Fault in Our Stars is a heartbreaking novel written by John
Green. The narrator is a sixteen-year-old cancer patient named
Hazel who falls in love with a cancer survivor, seventeen-yearold Augustus Waters (also called Gus). Hazel does not want to
become Gus’s girlfriend because she fears that she will die in
the near future and she does not want Gus to lose yet another
girlfriend (his former girlfriend died of cancer). In the excerpt you
are about to read, they are on their way to Amsterdam to meet
the author of Hazel’s favourite book, An Imperial Affliction (AIA).
a narrator
en forteller / ein forteljar
an affliction
en lidelse / ei liding
[…]
It was quiet for a minute, and then he asked, “You want to read or
something?” I said sure. I was reading this long poem called Howl by
Allen Ginsberg for my poetry class, and Gus was rereading An Imperial
Affliction.
After a while he said, “Is it any good?” “The poem?” I asked. “Yeah.”
“Yeah, it’s great. The guys in this poem take even more drugs than I do.
How’s AIA?” “Still perfect,” he said. “Read to me.”
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Part b – The stories i have heard / the fault in our stars
“This isn’t really a poem to read aloud when you are sitting next to
your sleeping mother. It has, like, sodomy and angel dust in it,” I said.
“You just named two of my favorite pastimes,” he said. “Okay, read
me something else then?”
“Um,” I said. “I don’t have anything else?”
“That’s too bad. I am so in the mood for poetry. Do you have anything
memorized?”
“‘Let us go then, you and I,’” I started nervously, “‘When the evening
is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherized upon a table.’”
“Slower,” he said.
I felt bashful, like I had when I’d first told him of An Imperial Affliction.
“Um, okay. Okay. ‘Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, /
The muttering retreats / Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
/ And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: / Streets that follow
like a tedious argument / Of insidious intent / To lead you to an
overwhelming question … / Oh, do not ask, “What is it?” / Let us go and
make our visit.’”
“I’m in love with you,” he said quietly. “Augustus,” I said. “I am,”
he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes
crinkling. “I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying
myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I’m in love with you,
and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is
inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day
when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will
swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
“Augustus,” I said again, not knowing what else to say. It felt like
everything was rising up in me, like I was drowning in this weirdly
painful joy, but I couldn’t say it back. I couldn’t say anything back. I just
looked at him and let him look at me until he nodded, lips pursed, and
turned away, placing the side of his head against the window.
[…]
© Penguin Books. Used by permission.
For more on John Green:
http://johngreenbooks.com/
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sodomy
sodomi, avvikende
seksuell atferd (fra
Bibelen) /
sodomi, avvikande
seksuell åtferd (frå
Bibelen)
angel dust
PCP, narkotisk stoff
pastimes
tidsfordriv
to etherize
å bedøve
bashful
sjenert
a retreat
et fristed / ein fristad
sawdust
sagflis
tedious
langtekkelig/langtekkjeleg
insidious
lumske
an intent
en hensikt / ei hensikt
to crinkle
å rynke (seg)
to deny
å nekte
a void
et tomrom / eit tomrom
oblivion
glemsel/gløymsel
inevitable
uunngåelig/uunngåeleg
labor
arbeid
pursed
snurpet sammen /
snurpa saman
Part b Part
– Theastories
– factsi of
have
theheard
matter
/ love
/ is …
Getty Images / John Giustina
Love is …
by Adrian Henri
Love is feeling cold in the back of vans
Love is a fanclub with only two fans
Love is walking holding paintstained hands
Love is
paintstained
malingsflekkete/
målingsflekkete
a blanket
et teppe, en dyne /
eit teppe, ei dyne
delights
nytelser/nyting
Top of the Pops
et britisk musikkprogram
på tv / eit britisk
musikkprogram på tv
Love is fish and chips on winter nights
Love is blankets full of strange delights
Love is when you don’t put out the lights
Love is
Love is the presents in Christmas shops
Love is when you’re feeling Top of the Pops
Love is what happens when the music stops
Love is
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Part b – The stories i have heard / love is …
Love is white panties lying all forlorn
Love is pink nightdresses still slightly warm
Love is when you have to leave at dawn
Love is
forlorn
forlatt/forlaten
dawn
daggry
Love is you and love is me
Love is prison and love is free
Love’s what’s there when you’re away from me
Love is
© Adrian Henri. Used by permission.
For more on Adrian Henri:
http://www.adrianhenri.com/writer-poems.html
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