0447468001394936969 [jostein gaarder] the ringmasters daughter(bookza.org) by Jostein Gaarder

Author:Jostein Gaarder
Language: eng
Format: epub

THE

RINGMASTER'S

DAUGHTER

Also by Jostein Gaarder

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THE RINGMASTER'S DAUGHTER

Jostein Gaarder

Translated by James Anderson

Weidenfeld & Nicolson

London

A PHOENIX HOUSE BOOK

First published in English in Great Britain in 2002 by

Phoenix House

Copyright © H. Aschehoug & Co (W. Nygaard) AS, Oslo 2001

Translated from the original Norwegian edition Sirkusdirektoerens datter English translation © James Anderson 2002

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author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance

with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988.

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with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988.

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All author's royalties from this book will be donated to the Sophie Foundation.

The Sophie Foundation awards the annual Sophie Prize (100,000 US dollars) for outstanding achievement in working towards a sustainable future.

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ISBN 0 297 82923 8

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My brain is seething. I'm bubbling with hundreds of new ideas.

They just keep welling up.

Perhaps it's possible to control thoughts to a certain extent, but to stop thinking is asking too much. My head is teeming with

beguiling notions, I'm not able to fix them before they're ousted by new thoughts. I can't keep them apart.

I'm rarely able to remember my thoughts. Before I manage to

dwell on one of my inspirations, it generally melts into an even

better idea, but this, too, is so fickle of character that I struggle to save it from the constant volcanic stream of new ideas ...

Once more my head is full of voices. I feel haunted by an excitable

swarm of souls who use my brain cells to talk to one another. I

haven't the equanimity to harbour them all, some must be racked

off. I have a considerable intellectual surplus and I constantly need to unburden it. At regular intervals I have to sit down with pencil and paper and relieve myself of ideas ...

When I awoke a few hours ago, I was certain I'd formulated the

world's most competent adage. Now I'm not so sure, but at least

I've given the virginal aphorism a due place in my notebook. I am

convinced it could be traded for a better dinner. If Isold it to someone who already has a name, it might make it into the next edition of

Familiar Quotations.

At last I've decided what I want to be. I shall continue doing what

I've always done, but from now on I'll make a living out of it. I

don't feel the need to be famous, that's an important consideration, but I could still become extremely rich.

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