Uddrag fra BREV TIL: Vibeke Hjelmslev FRA: Svatja Jakobson (1962-01-12)

with no teaching obligations and am decided to do something very active and positive with the Time so I feel it more when 1963 comes again, and have more to write to you at next Chrisibm&s. In any case,we are ,thanks God,healthy in body and mind, on the whole. Yes,the time flies. There is snow again and I am going slicing.And yesterday, a student of mine asked me: are you stil skiing? It made me think of my own'gaff' In Norway,when I asked - when we came to Norway at the beginning of the war - the same question Mr.Raestad who was then perhaps younger than I am now,and learned that my question hurt him. Well,as you see,I am stil in that New Year's day mood. The most joyful thing I did this year was much dancing of the "Balkan Slavic and Greek dances with I like very much. And listened with delight to some electronic music compositions of my studentSoAnd saw two wonderful exhibitions of the Dada Art and Max Ernst's in NY. And am pre- pairing a series of talks with Serbian music for the local broadcast - which makes me feel once more enchanted with my experience in the Yugoslav and Bulgarian villages. And thsr.£ are a few books that I enjoyed: Picasso's Picasso and Max Liberman : The artist in his studio.And there were many friends whom I was happy to meet and kiss. And I wish much I could see you both soon and kiss you also.