Mogens and Other Stories

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This event sent Mogens into a period of despair and debauchery. He lost all belief in love and refused to let anyone get close. Those that tried, he would simply tolerate for a little while before running off, never letting them capture his heart. His days were dark and lonely: Friedrich Nietzsche, "Second Essay, Section 24," On the Genealogy of Morals, in Basic Writings of NIetzsche, trans. and ed. with commentaries by Walter Kaufmann (New York: The Modern Library, 1992), 532. To be of real value one must embody the struggle of one or more persons against all those things which try to keep one from existing in one’s own way.

I wrote a version of Ghosts six years ago when I was waiting for a film to be financed and was all too aware of the insidious virus of boredom. For some reason I couldn't stop thinking of Oswald's "Give me the sun…", and I read the play, not having seen it for at least 20 years, with a sense of discovery: The producer, Sonia Friedman, commissioned it with a view to presenting it in the West End. It didn't get produced because another production popped up and waved it away.Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference Down there home stood beside home. My home! my home! And my childhood’s belief in everything beautiful in the world.—And what if they were right, the others! If the world were full of beating hearts and the heavens full of a loving God! But why do I not know that, why do I know something different? And I do know something different, cutting, bitter, true... Flynn, T. (2007). The new encyclopedia of unbelief. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. "Danish atheists include the authors...Jens Peter Jacobsen." Standing, looking at Thora sleeping, "the last shadow of his past" disappears. The story ends with the two happy lovers disappearing into a field of grain, laughing with each other. Jacobsen vividly inserts us into this final scene through his powerful sense of natural imagery: Friedrich Nietzsche, "The Gay Science: Book V, Section 343," in The Portable Nietzsche, ed. and trans. by Walter Kaufmann (New York: Penguin Books, 1976), 447-48.

To age … You understand time in another perspective Jurema has a lot of problems, a lot of issues [with her] health, but the beautiful thing that she has is this relationship with time. This is wisdom, to understand that time is a precious [thing]. You’re not running and running and running away and running, trying to get time. You’re on time. You’re on time, you’re there, living this moment. This is something that I think you have with age, and when you are young, you don’t get it. You’re just running,” Sá says. She did not feel herself younger, but it seemed to her as if a fountain of tears that had been obstructed and dammed had burst open again and begun to flow. There was great happiness and relief in crying, and these tears gave her a feeling of richness; it was as if she had become more precious, and everything had become more precious to her—in short it was a feeling of youth after all. In those days both soon noticed that however much they might have changed during the course of the years, their hearts had forgotten nothing. Firstly, everyone should be going to the Gutenberg Project to get loads of free e-books in a variety of formats. And if they’re not in a format you need it isn’t too hard to convert – thems the joys of the internet. Secondly, Mogens and Other Stories is a collection of novellas and short stories, that while not a normal thing for me to read was an excellent change. And yes I went through the entire book in a day but sometimes that happens. It is a sentiment My Love encapsulates, as it considers the contrasting difficulty of ageing alongside the beauty of time spent in an eternal partnership. It isn’t all despair.Endlessly inventive and with literary thrills a-plenty, Matt Wesolowski is boldly carving his own uniquely dark niche in fiction’ Benjamin Myers A relentless and original work of modern rural noir which beguiles and unnerves in equal measure. Matt Wesolowski is a major talent’ Eva Dolan And, if you were an author, how would you like to have these other folks writing blurbs for you? Sigmund Freud: …Jacobsen has made a profound impression on my heart. Hermann Hesse: …powerful imagination…huge talent. Thomas Mann: Jacobsen had the greatest influence on my style…