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Norwegian translation of The Basketball Diaries

Based on the 1981 Bantam Books edition.


The Basketball Diaries, Norwegian Translation

Excerpt


HØST 1965
77.

En nedtegnelse funnet på en av de små lekseblokkene du får for ti cent hos Gussie's . . . jeg skrev om en LSD-opplevelse jeg hadde for en stund siden:

"Småunger kaster klinkekuler
der greinene bryter sola

opp i grasiøse spyd av lys . . .
jeg ønsker bar å være rein."

Jeg fant det helt oppsmuldra i ei gammal bukse i historietimen i morges.


From The Basketball Diaries, Penguin Edition (1987), pages 140-41.

Fall 1965

A note found on one of those little homework pads you cop for ten cents at Gussie's . . . I wrote on an experience with L.S. D. a while ago:

"Little kids shoot marbles
where the branches break the sun

into graceful shafts of light . . .
I just want to be pure."

I found it all crumbled up in these old pants in history class this morning.



Cover art: Per Ivar Martinsen

Cover photograph: Dag Alveng

   

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