{"id":1168,"date":"2018-01-02T13:02:02","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T13:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megaga.dk\/?p=1168"},"modified":"2018-01-02T13:02:02","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T13:02:02","slug":"the-nussbaums-nussbaumerne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/megaga.dk\/?p=1168","title":{"rendered":"The Nussbaums \/ Nussbaumerne"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Nussbaums<\/strong><\/p>\n

When the Nussbaums moved to this village they changed their name to Nuttree thinking, perhaps (I don’t really know, they don’t seem to hear what’s spoken to them nor can we hear what they say when they speak, it looks like they’re speaking, they move their mouths, their terrible foreign mouths, but not a sound reaches our otherwise hospitable ears) they’d fit in better, blend into the life of the village without anyone noticing.<\/p>\n

without end or beginning
\na new year’s
\nNorth-Westerly wind<\/p>\n

There’s a lot in a name. The right name can do wonders for you; or the opposite: make life hell. It’s not about numerological mumbo-jumbo or Kabbalistic hocus-pocus, but the good Lord said it through his servant James, and George Harrison said it as well, though I think he got it from another who got it from another who got it from another who got it from another who got it from another who got it from another and so on. The now Nuttrees (which is and are the same as (the) Nussbaums, their name meaning the same, the people being the same) tried, I’ll give them that, they tried to become part of the village, part of the landscape, but we only saw them as semi translucent people trying to make contact. We’re used to that around here. It’s an old land in the centre of which stands a hill that has been considered holy for thousands of years by stone-, bronze- and iron age people and after them the Vikings and then, as the latest faith, by Christianity and the latter built a church on that spot and claimed it theirs. Of course. It’s just how people work, but since it’s an old land it has and has had many through-passers and they’re not always easy to see. Some only solidify – as opposed to fog, for instance, which never solidifies – after a while or a few generations, some just merge with the background shadows and never become really real. And all that has to do with names, I suspect.<\/p>\n

wet smoke
\nthe rain of -17
\nbecomes the rain of -18<\/p>\n

It’s sorta like with ghosts, you see them but not really. They try to interact with you but unsuccessfully. Perhaps they manage to knock over a vase or something to let you know they’re there but that merely pisses you off and that isn’t a good way to begin a talk \u2026 But after a while the now Nuttrees changed their name to N\u00f8ddetr\u00e6 which means the same as Nussbaum and Nuttree, but it’s in the language of the land and now we can see them clearly, talk to them, lend them stuff and so on and things should be better from now on, if they learn to give back what they borrow, if they weren’t so loud, if they would eat decent normal food, if they weren’t so big show-offs with every new luxury good they buy, if \u2026<\/p>\n

first dream?
\nno, it’s too early
\nfor that<\/p>\n

..*..<\/p>\n

Nussbaumerne<\/strong><\/p>\n

Da familien Nussbaum flyttede til landsbyen, skiftede de navn til Nuttree og t\u00e6nkte nok (jeg ved det egentlig ikke, de synes ikke at h\u00f8re, hvad der bliver sagt til dem, og vi kan heller ikke h\u00f8re, hvad de siger, n\u00e5r de taler, det ser ud som om, de taler, deres munde bev\u00e6ger sig, de der forf\u00e6rdelige fremmede munde, men ingen lyde n\u00e5r vore ellers g\u00e6stfrie \u00f8rer), at de ville passe bedre ind, s\u00e5dan bare glide ind i landsbyens liv, uden at nogen lage m\u00e6rke til det.<\/p>\n

uden ende eller begyndelse
\net nyt \u00e5rs
\nnordvestlige vind<\/p>\n

Et navn er betydningsfuldt. Et navn kan g\u00f8re udvirke mirakler for \u00e9n; eller det modsatte: g\u00f8re livet til et helvede. Det handler ikke om numerologisk plidder-pladder eller kabbalistisk hokus-pokus, men Herren selv sagde det gennem sin tjener Jakob, og George Harrison sagde det ogs\u00e5, selvom jeg tror, at han havde fra en anden, som havde det fra en anden, som havde det fra en anden, som havde det fra en anden, som havde det fra en anden og s\u00e5 videre. De nuv\u00e6rende Nuttree’er (som er det og de samme som Nussbaumerne, navnene betyder samme, menneskene er de samme) pr\u00f8vede virkelig, det m\u00e5 man give dem, at blive del af landsbyen, del af landskabet, men vi kunne kun se dem som halvt gennemsigtige mennesker, der pr\u00f8vede at tage kontakt. Det er vi vant til p\u00e5 disse egne. Det er et gammelt land i hvis midte knejser en h\u00f8j, som i \u00e5rtusinder har v\u00e6ret anset for hellig af sten-, bronze- og jernalderfolk og dern\u00e6st af Vikingerne og s\u00e5, som den seneste tro, af de kristne, som byggede en kirke p\u00e5 stedet og sagde, den var deres. Selvf\u00f8lgelig. Det er bare s\u00e5dan det er med mennesker, men siden det er gammelt land har det, og har haft, mange gennemrejsende og de er ikke altid nemme at se. Nogle bliver faktisk f\u00f8rst faste – i mods\u00e6tning til t\u00e5ge f.eks., som aldrig bliver fast – efter et stykke tid eller nogle generationer, andre g\u00e5r bare i eet med baggrundsskyggerne og bliver aldrig rigtigt virkelige. Og alt d\u00e9t har med navne at g\u00f8re, tror jeg.<\/p>\n

v\u00e5d r\u00f8g
\nregnen fra -17
\nbliver regnen i -18<\/p>\n

Det er ligesom med sp\u00f8gelser, man ser dem, men ikke s\u00e5dan rigtigt. De pr\u00f8ver at interagere med \u00e9n, men uden held. M\u00e5ske klarer de at v\u00e6lte en vase eller noget lignende for at lade dig vide, at de er der, men det g\u00f8r dig bare vred, og det er ikke en god m\u00e5de at starte en samtale p\u00e5 \u2026 Men efter et stykke tid skiftede de, der nu hed Nuttree navn til N\u00f8ddetr\u00e6, som betyder det samme som Nussbaum og Nuttree, men det er et navn p\u00e5 landets og landskabets sprog, og nu kan vi se dem klart og tydeligt, tale med dem, l\u00e5ne dem ting og sager og fra nu af skulle tingene blive bedre, som man siger, hvis de alts\u00e5 ville tilbagelevere, hvad de har l\u00e5nt, hvis de ikke var s\u00e5 h\u00f8jr\u00f8stede, hvis de bare ville spise ordentligt normalt mad, hvis de ikke pralede s\u00e5 meget med deres nyindk\u00f8bte luksusvarer, hvis \u2026<\/p>\n

f\u00f8rste dr\u00f8m?
\nnej, det for tidligt
\ntil d\u00e9t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

file date 01.01 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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