All I ever wanted
All I ever needed
Is here in my arms
Words are very unneccessary
They can only do harm
Adam - Enjoying the Silence
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Can't you understand, oh my little girl?
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes
Watchmen by 
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons on DC Comics from 1986.
Read it through like a breeze, the themes are known in the comic world, Cold-War fear for the Russians and the nuclear threat is imminent. The artwork is rich and beautiful and weaved in the "original" story is a parellell story on a shipwrecked man seeking revenge on the pirates that supposably killed his family - but where the hate and revenge turns him in to what he fights.
The story is in my opinion strong and rich, the obvious heroes aren't always the heroes and the villains aren't always the vile.
The climax and ending is built up as much as it is surprising.
All in all a great work I enjoyed reading through in these days when the cinema shows the white screen adaptation (finally!)
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes - Who watches the watchmen
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons on DC Comics from 1986.Read it through like a breeze, the themes are known in the comic world, Cold-War fear for the Russians and the nuclear threat is imminent. The artwork is rich and beautiful and weaved in the "original" story is a parellell story on a shipwrecked man seeking revenge on the pirates that supposably killed his family - but where the hate and revenge turns him in to what he fights.
The story is in my opinion strong and rich, the obvious heroes aren't always the heroes and the villains aren't always the vile.
The climax and ending is built up as much as it is surprising.
All in all a great work I enjoyed reading through in these days when the cinema shows the white screen adaptation (finally!)
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes - Who watches the watchmen
A Hard Day's Work
Waking up at 07:03 to a blinding white landscape at mum's place to a day of endless possibilities.
After a steady breakfast of eggs and rye-bread I start shoveling snow to make a path for the afternoon's sauna. Something that also required a hole of 2-by-2 meters to be made in the ice.
These wee small tasks were made before the city kids that were out yesterday have had their first morning puke. Off I went for new tasks, these requiring some heavy duty machinery:
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood
So before the clock had struck ten we had filled a hanger with wood and spent some time driving around the woods on the all-terrain-vehicle.
And now at noon i still have 12 waken hours to spend doing something fruitful and rewardindg. My suspicions point to sauna @ 15:00. Vättern Crayfish for dinner with brother home from his Dylan-concert and until then I think I might just spend an hour or three reading last year's Nobel Prize winner Le Clézio's "Le procès-verbal" (Rapport om Adam)
This is quite exactly what a stressed out none-sleeping non-reading Adam needed.
After a steady breakfast of eggs and rye-bread I start shoveling snow to make a path for the afternoon's sauna. Something that also required a hole of 2-by-2 meters to be made in the ice.
These wee small tasks were made before the city kids that were out yesterday have had their first morning puke. Off I went for new tasks, these requiring some heavy duty machinery:
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck woodSo before the clock had struck ten we had filled a hanger with wood and spent some time driving around the woods on the all-terrain-vehicle.
And now at noon i still have 12 waken hours to spend doing something fruitful and rewardindg. My suspicions point to sauna @ 15:00. Vättern Crayfish for dinner with brother home from his Dylan-concert and until then I think I might just spend an hour or three reading last year's Nobel Prize winner Le Clézio's "Le procès-verbal" (Rapport om Adam)
This is quite exactly what a stressed out none-sleeping non-reading Adam needed.
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