Chapter XXX: Aunts and uncles, the big jumble
โWhy explain when Iโve stopped believing?
Whatโs left more than the biggest blow?
Itโs so one hundred percent effective
when it takes our lives.โ
Ebba Grรถn
The great wind of jumble has swept in and covers the atticโs floorboards, of untreated pine, with an uneven blanket of dust. Tidier here. Less there.
Three aunts and one uncle, four approaches:
Mary โ the congeries:
โI must get the attic in order. Only the most important things should remain. Must do proper a death-cleaning in straight rows.โ
โHelp? What nonsense is that! I can manage on my own.โ
Mildred โ the topsy-turvy:
โSo, I know that I last week put the armchair next to the dresser, but now I canโt find it. That small one. You know, the Emma armchair.โ
โWell, well never mind! Itโs up there somewhere anyway. Now, letโs have a cup of coffee.โ
โHelp? What nonsense is that! I can manage on my own.โ
Millicent โ higgledy-piggledy:
โItโs rather strange. The crystal chandelier has simply disappeared from the attic. You all, did claim that it was unfashionable, but that was not true. Has it been gone for long?โ
โHelp? What nonsense is that! I can manage on my own.โ
Henry โ the pell-mell:
โThe attic? What are you talking about? Weโll have to deal with that another day.โ
โI read and I read, and I read. I read about the steam shipsโ engines, over and over again. Technical terms Iโve studied all my life. But you know what, Anna! It doesnโt stick anymore. It does not stick.โ
โI donโt want this, Iโm drowningโฆโ
โBut, help? What nonsense is that! I can still manage on my own.โ
But there is also a peculiar softness to that bare and cold attic. Most of the time it is more like a warm forest glade on a summer afternoon. Admittedly, with prickly blueberry shrubs on the ground, but still with soft, green velvet moss covering all the rocks and the sunlight streaming down between the spruce trees.
Lucky that is.
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Evigt รคgs blott det du mist
Kapitel XXX: Mostrar och morbrรถder, virrvarret
โVarfรถr fรถrklara nรคr jag slutat tro?
Vad finns det kvar mer รคn the biggest blow?
Den e sรฅ hundraprocentigt effektiv
nรคr den tar vรฅra liv.โ
Ebba Grรถn
Det stora virrvarrets vind har svept in och tรคcker golvtiljorna av obehandlad furu med ett ojรคmnt tรคcke av damm. Mer stรคdat hรคr. Mindre dรคr.
Tre mostrar och en morbror, fyra fรถrhรฅllningssรคtt:
Mary โ stรคdad oreda:
โ Jag mรฅste fรฅ ordning pรฅ vinden. Bara de viktigaste sakerna ska vara kvar. Mรฅste dรถ-stรคda fint i rรคta rader.
โ Hjรคlp? Vad รคr det fรถr trams! Jag klarar mig sjรคlv.
Mildred โ vilken soppa:
โ Alltsรฅ jag vet att jag i fรถrra veckan satte fรฅtรถljen sidan om byrรฅn men nu kan jag inte hitta den. Den dรคr lilla. Du vet, Emma-fรฅtรถljen.
โ Ja, ja strunt samma! Den finns dรคr uppe nรฅgonstans i alla fall. Nu tar vi en kopp kaffe.
โ Hjรคlp? Vad รคr det fรถr trams! Jag klarar mig sjรคlv.
Millicent โ huller om buller:
โ Det รคr vรคl besynnerligt. Kristallkronan รคr bara fรถrsvunnen frรฅn vinden. Ni pรฅstod visserligen att den var omodern men det var inte sant. Har den varit borta lรคnge?
โ Hjรคlp? Vad รคr det fรถr trams! Jag klarar mig sjรคlv.
Henry โ mitt rรถriga huvud:
โ Vinden? Vad pratar du om? Den fรฅr vi ordna en annan dag.
โ Jag lรคser och lรคser och lรคser. Lรคser om fartygens รฅngmotorer, om och om igen. Tekniska termer som jag har studerat hela mitt liv. Men vet, du Anna! Det fastnar inte lรคngre. Det fastnar inte.
โ Jag vill inte detta, jag drunknarโฆ
โ Men hjรคlp? Vad รคr det fรถr trams! Jag klarar mig fortfarande sjรคlv.
Men det finns en besynnerlig mjukhet pรฅ den dรคr kala och kalla vinden ocksรฅ. Oftast รคr den mer som en varm skogsglรคnta en sommareftermiddag. Visserligen med stickigt blรฅbรคrsris pรฅ marken men รคndรฅ med mjuk, grรถn sammetsmossa รถver alla stenar och solen strilande ner mellan granarna.
Tur รคr vรคl det.
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