2 may 2021

John Bjarne Grover

It was the 1st of may, workers' day. I lay and rested and an inner voice told me: "John, it is too easy to hear your thoughts if you stay at home constantly - why not go for a walk and some fresh air". I so did - and went for an afternoon stroll. I did not follow the ordinary route but went up another street and crossed the trafficked Johnstrasse higher up than the normal traffic lights. A sign on a housewall caught my attention:

To a norwegian mind this calls forth associations - at least on this 1st of may - to the swedish form 'franska skinkor' = 'french hams'. But that was not the reason: It was rather that the Bezirksvorsteher would be me - had only the sign been circular. A Gemeinderat had told me to go for a walk, that was it, and the Landtagsabgeordneter would therefore be me - on this Landtag the 1st of may. Ein Leben für die Arbeiterbewegung. Aha, I understand, a paradox - the squaring of the circle.

© John Bjarne Grover
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