I want to close now on my first piece in Norwegian,
or a section from my first piece in Norwegian, called "Cropper".
[SPEAKING NORWEGIAN]
How does one keep one's body as one's own?
Why does this mean for the relative safety of boundaries?
Could I make sure that what I call my body
would remain in the transit from other languages?
That it would hold this progression into English?
And because I didn't know and wasn't
sure, and since a great number of people
for an overwhelming number of persons,
for an overwhelmingly large number of persons,
for it always growing number of persons this is far from self
evident.
This is not self-evident.
This does not apply.
It doesn't even begin to figure.
I never knew for sure.
[SPEAKING NORWEGIAN]
Some never had a body to call their own
before it was taken away.
Som hadde aldri en kropp de kunne kalle sin ege før den ble
revet bort.
Some never had a chance to feel a body as their own
before it was taken away.
Som fikk aldri oppleve en kropp som sin egen før ble revet
bort.
Some never had a chance to know their body
before it was taken away.
Som fikk aldri kjenne sin kropp før den ble revet bort.
Some were never free to speak their body
before it was taken out.
[SPEAKING NORWEGIAN]
Some hope they had one safely only
to find it had to be left across the border or parts of it.
Som håpet de trygt hadde en kropp bare for å innse at den
måtte bli igjen over grensen eller deler av den.
Some wanted to leave their body behind and couldn't.
Som ønsket å legge sin kropp bak seg og kunne ikke.
Some could neither take it with them, nor leave it behind.
Som kunne verken ta den med seg eller legge den igjen.
Some are laughed at, some spat out.
Some are dragged into the crowd.
[SPEAKING NORWEGIAN]
Some bodies are forgotten in the language compounds.
Some immense pressures applied onto the forgetting
of the ecosystem some escape from.
Some bodies like languages simply disappear.
Noen kropper liksom språk blir simpelthen borte.
Some of many are being disappeared.
Noen eller mange er blitt borte.
So many that disappeared arise in some or many of us.
Noen eller mange som ble borte reiser seg i noen eller mange
av oss.
Some arise in some or many of us.
Noen reiser seg i noen eller mange av oss.
Some that arise in some of us arise in many of us.
Noen som reiser seg i noen av oss reiser seg i mange av oss.
Some that arise in some of us arrive in each of us.
Noen som reiser seg i noen av oss kommer frem i hver av oss.
Thanks very much.