December 27, 2003
idle thoughts should be chased away
by going into the forest
and chopping down trees
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Matti's father, a laborer with a "clog-shaped
jaw," warned him that thinking and reading books lead to dementia
and that idle thoughts should be chased away by going into the
forest and chopping down trees.
Hugo Lindgren
of the New York Times, writing about Swedish author
Mikael Niemi,
and his novel "Popular Music from Vittula"
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