19 april 2016

John Bjarne Grover

In the summer 1970 the family moved from the western to the eastern part of Norway. We moved into Kongensgate 8. On the lower side was an intersecting street and beyond this lived the Breigan family (in #6 or 4) - their son Bo about my age being a wellknown runner. One day I stood on the sidewalk to this intersecting street and a boy about my age, John Fauchald, even he the son of a doctor, the family living nearby, stood there as well. He said something using the word ISTA ('i sta[d]') for a near future event: 'I think they will be coming ista', sth like that. I said: In Molde where I come from this word always means a near past, a few moments ago, but he said that in Fredrikstad it could mean both near future and near past. (It still sounds strange to my ear - but it could be I have heard it once or twice later with future sense). A child on a KETTCAR toy car was pedalling by on the sidewalk in just that moment. ("I samtrĺ med..." is a modern norwegian expression of somewhat 'Kanzlei' type - cp. hungarian 'az útról nézve' - and 'Sellanrĺ Skole'?). One dark evening when I was coming home I went into the front yard of the wooden villa Kongensgate 8 when suddenly John Fauchald came rushing out from some shadows at a 'Mauer' and leapt onto my back with a terrible roar. He hung there in the 'psycho' air for a few seconds while I asked him to step down, please.



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