{"product_id":"2940151920254","title":"Daybook: Swedish Musings 1967-1969","description":"\u003cp\u003eSome would call them journal entries, but these Swedish musings are less so than stray thoughts now and then jotted down in the black notebooks I always carried with me at the time (and which I thought of as daybooks, hence the title).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI was eighteen years old in the summer of 1967 when I began these musings, and I kept them up through the summer of 1969 (when I left Sweden for Africa and places beyond).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the mid-1970s, on a long ferry ride from Gothenburg to England, I read through these daybooks and typed up (again in Swedish) a generous extract of these musings. Twenty years on I translated these extracts into English—a rough one, as translations go.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this collection I have made no serious attempt to analyze or clarify the feelings and thoughts behind these entries, but I have, on occasion, clarified and expanded the entries themselves where and as needed the better to let them say what—as it now seems to me—they want to say.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI’ve also corrected what translation errors I stumbled across.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost of the original entries were undated and I have made no attempt here to date them. I have, however, done my best to sequence them as truthfully as possible, and wherever there is a date, I have included it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe two sections: Before and After, reference a deeply significant spiritual experience that I had in the early fall of 1968.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis experience was profound. It changed everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEverything.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ulf Wolf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47122565398768,"sku":"2940151920254","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940151920254_p0.jpg?v=1764015572","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940151920254","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}