Dreams haunted by this scene from Anne, Paal Helge-Haugen’s 1968 punktroman: a novel composed of ”points.” Translation mine.
32 In a cove, four men with bare backs
and black trousers crouch in the sand.
I see a white body in the water. His arms,
hips in green water, gliding
like a small fish out there.
The water is moved by a sudden wind.
Their voices near me.
Bjarne read the original Norwegian aloud to a small room of Danes on the third floor, overlooking George Square. A milky scar traverses his right eye, verifying rumors of a stint playing Russian villains in the '70s.