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Very true... Specially that I always thought they were Hippos !
I thought the Trolls were all those little gnomes running on the island ...

I must have been almost 25 when I discovered with awe that the Mommin Maiden was a Troll... (What a shock) !

"What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman

by margouillat (hemidactylus(dot)frenatus(at)wanadoo(dot)fr) on Mon Feb 26th, 2007 at 05:33:07 PM EST
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I have lived this same life out in the archipelago during the summer. You are out on an island for two months in the Baltic, like Robinson Crusoe, with nothing to do but ponder, look at the sea and sauna. Every three days you take a boat and go to the nearest island to shop for supplies - especially crates of red wine.

Sometimes friends drop by unexpectedly and you party. Sometimes it rains. Sometimes the mosquitoes are intolerable. Every night you light a bonfire and stare into the flames. You read a lot of books, especially in a little hut where you crap and there are even more mosquitoes - and possibly snakes.

It is the best time a human being can have...

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Mon Feb 26th, 2007 at 05:45:40 PM EST
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Er... We might be trolling this diary ! Why wouldn't you make one on the Moomin's background (the islands) ,

For several winters I nearly went there from Leningrad, but never found the time (Rabot, rabot)!

"What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman

by margouillat (hemidactylus(dot)frenatus(at)wanadoo(dot)fr) on Mon Feb 26th, 2007 at 05:56:27 PM EST
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