3. 37 lines , The Short Story entitled Half a Sheet of Foolscap, A gift to the City's
pupils.
4. Half a Sheet of Foolscap
• The last load of the furniture had departed, the tenant, a young man
with a mourning crape on his hat, took another turn around the
residence to see had he missed anything. – No, he hadn’t missed
anything. Not a single thing, and then he walked out, into the hall,
firmly resolved to never again have to think about what he had gone
through in those rooms. But look, in the hall, near the telephone, a
half sheet of tacked-up paper, and it was covered with several kinds
of handwriting – some of which were clearly legible, others scribbled
out in lead pencil or red ink. There it was, the whole beautiful story
which was played out in the short period of two years; everything he
wanted to forget was there in writing; a piece of human life on a half
sheet of paper.
38. • "Poetry and music does not happen on the page of the
book or on the sheet of notes – it happens in the body
and mind of the reader, the listener. Literature becomes
literature and music becomes music only when we do
something with that which is inscribed there. Before that,
it is purely inanimate text, dots on lines. The art of
interpreting is about making dead signs become living
music and poetry. You must involve your entire self in
this work; body, imagination and thought"
• Magnus William-Olsson, poet.
