The Exploits of Moominpappa, Described by Himself
A Classics, Fiction, Fantasy book. ! . , . , Moominpappa's Memoirs //
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- Pages: 135 pages
- ISBN: 9780140303230 / 140303235
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Well,' said Hodgkins, 'perhaps he really is interested in everything, only he doesn't overdo it. For ourselves there is always one single interest. You want to become. I want to do. My nephew wants to have. But the Joxter just lives.''Simply lives,' I said. 'Anybody can do that.''Mphm,' Hodgkins said. Tove Jansson, Moominpappa's Memoirs // We sat talking on a rock. The air was filled with the tang of sea-weed and of something else that could only have been the ocean smell. I felt so happy that I wasn't even afraid it wouldn't last. Tove Jansson, Moominpappa's Memoirs // ! . , . , Moominpappa's Memoirs //
As Moominpappa writes his memoirs, he describes the adventures he and creatures he encountered as young Moomin. He describes how he ran away from home, travelled the world and how he eventually met Moominmamma. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and I consider it to be timeless. Janssons imagination and ability to be highly descriptive... I must be terribly unobservant; despite having read the Mumintroll series on and off for several decades, I had somehow not noticed that Snusmumriken and his father Joxaren are Zen masters. But this passage was so obvious that even I couldn't miss it:Nr Fredrikson avlste mig vid rodret i gryningen nmnde jag i frbigende Joxarens frvnande... Tove ei pet. Pitis pit muistivihkoa vierell samalla ko lukee, ett vois kirjata yls kaikki kauniit ja huvittavat viisaudet.
