Trondheim (Norway)

Pictures of Trondheim by A/Z, some available at Fine Art America; 

Henrik Ibsen: The Master Playwright documentary (with Michel Meyer, 1987/Youtube); 

Fassbinder/Ibsen, A Doll's House (Saarland TV/Youtube);

The  Master Builder (Henrik Ibsen, BBC 1988/Youtube); 

Ingmar Bergman su August Strindberg (Fuori Orario, Rai/Youtube);

Arquipélago dos Pombos Correios [I took this video out of Youtube, because I wanted to change it]; 

The pictures were taken somewhere between the hotel I stayed in (Radisson Blu? unfortunately just for a few days!) and Nidaros Cathedral (Nidaros Domkirke), perhaps also on the other side of Nidelva, in the route towards NTNU. This is a very beautiful city.

"... junkies always beef about The Cold as they call it, turning up their black coat collars and clutching their withered necks... pure junk con. A junky does not want to be warm, he wants to be Cool-Cooler-COLD. But he wants The Cold like he wants His Junk—NOT OUTSIDE where it does him no good but INSIDE so he can sit around with a spine like a frozen hydraulic jack... his metabolism approaching Absolute ZERO... Such is the life in the Old Ice House... Room for One More Inside, Sir... thermodynamic kicks... Fro-Zen Hydraulic... come over HERE and shack up with Charybdis... We have nothing to lose but Our Pushers. And THEY are NOT NECESSARY. "

"Leif The Unlucky was a tall, thin Norwegian with a patch over one eye, his face congealed in a permanent, ingratiating smirk..." 

William S. Burroughs 

"Une légère fraicheur s'était déjà manifestée au bout de mes doigts; bientôt elle se transforma en un froid très vif, comme si j'avais les deux mains plongées dans un seau d'eau glacée. Mais ce n'était pas une soufrance; cette sensation presque aiguë me pénétrait plutôt comme une volupté. Cependant il me semblait que ce froid m'envahissait de plus en plus, au fur e à mesure de cet interminable voyage... Le froid augmentait toujours, et cependant je voyais des gens légèrement vêtus, ou même s'essyuant le front avec un air de fatigue. Cette idée réjouissante me prit, que j'étais un homme privilégié, à qui seul était accordé le droit d'avoir froid en été dans une salle de spectacle. Ce froid s'accroissait au point de devenir alarmant; mais j'étais avant tout dominé par la curiosité de savoir jusqu'à quel degré il pourrait descendre. Enfin il vint à un tel point, il fut si complet, si général, que toutes mes idées se congelèrent, pour ainsi dire; j'étais un morceau de glace pensant; je me considérais comme une statue taillée dans un seul bloc de glace..."

Baudelaire/De Quincey (Les Paradis artificiels)

"The life of Cantor was tragically different from that of his friend Dedekind. Cantor was born in St. Petersburg of parents who had migrated from Denmark, but most of his life was spent in Germany, the family having moved to Frankfurt when he was eleven. His parents were Christians of Jewish background—his father had been converted to Protestantism, his mother had been born a Catholic. The son Georg took a strong interest in the finespun arguments of medieval theologians concerning continuity and the infinite, and this militated against his pursuing a mundane career in engineering as suggested by his father. In his studies at Zurich, Göttingen, and Berlin the young man consequently concentrated on philosophy, physics, and mathematics—a program that seems to have fostered his unprecedented mathematical imagination."

Carl B. Boyer (A History of Mathematics)

"Negotiations between Hitler and the British and French Prime Ministers, Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier, resulted in the infamous Munich Agreement (September 1938), which allowed the annexation of Sudetenland to Germany. The Allies did not respond either to Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakia on 15 March 1939 or to Mussolini's invasion of Albania on 7 April... The partition of Poland had been prepared in August, when the German and Soviet Foreign Ministers, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Vyacheslav Molotov, signed a non-aggression pact... Stalin's opportunistic collaboration [with Hitler] was underlined in the Red Army's simultaneous attack on Finland. The Soviet invasion of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia followed in June 1940. This coincided with the crushing force of German Blitzkrieg in the west. In April [it] swept through Denmark and invaded Norway, where they met their first serious resistance. In May they pushed through the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg; they entered France on 10 May..." 

Matthew Gale (Dada & Surrealism)

"The reality is that terrorism in modern Norwegian history has overwhelmingly been perpetrated by rightwing extremists... the Conservative party controlled economic policies. Unprecedented income-tax reductions for Norway’s corporate billionaire elite, rising socio-economic inequality and an asylum policy that pushed the limits of the permissible under international law quickly ensued... Norway now found itself with cabinet ministers in important portfolios who had long pushed far-right rhetoric about a “stealth Islamisation” of the country, who had “wondered aloud” on social media about the supposed “need for a crusade” against Muslims and endorsed analogies between Islam and Nazism... The hate against Muslims that motivated both Breivik and Manshaus is to a large extent generated in the online and international netherworld of rightwing extremism and white supremacy... Among the angriest are small groups of young white Norwegian men seemingly unable to cope with their perception of a loss of privilege to women and immigrants."

Sindre Bangstad ("Norway is in denial about the threat of far-right violence," The Guardian); 

See also: 

- Spooky blue; 

- Warszawa; 

- Netherlands (Amsterdam, Utrecht);