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Then imagine the issue between them to be drawn not only in the field of letters, but also in the pulpit, the theatre, and the political arena, and some slight notion may be obtained of the condition of affairs which preceded the advent of Bjoernson and the true birth of Norwegian literature with "Synnoeve Solbakken."
"What he writes is as flat as a drawing," she would say. Or she would remark: "He ought to be more than a collaborator of Kierkegaard." It was only much later that she discovered his genius. Bjoernson, on the other hand, she worshipped with an enthusiastic love; it was a trouble to her that just about this time he had become very cool to her.
The same dean and Bjoernson became the best of friends afterwards, and found much sport in interchanging genial jests whenever they met." Frits Thaulow, the painter, thus wrote to Bjoernson reminding him of a festive gathering of students: "The manager came in and announced with a loud voice that it was past twelve. Then you sprang up. "'Bring champagne!
Bjoernson was then still an Orthodox Protestant, and in many ways hampered by his youthful impressions; I myself was still too brusque to be able to adapt myself to so difficult and masterful a personality. Eight years elapsed before the much that separated me from Bjoernson crumbled away.
The magazine had three editors, amongst them R. Nielsen himself, and when one of them, who was the critic of the Fatherland, suddenly left the country, Bjoernstjerne Bjoernson took his place.
There is nothing here of Ibsen's pathology. We are in the sun. Her most hideous blunder cannot undo a woman's soul. Bjoernson knows that the deed is nothing at all. It is the soul behind the deed that he sees. Not everything that cometh out of a man defileth a man. At all events, so it is here: triumph and joy built upon an act that as the Philistines would say has defiled forever."
This summing up, which does honour to Bjoernson and is not only a striking self-verdict, but a valuable contribution to poetic psychology in general, in its indication of the strength of the creative imagination and its possibilities of error, was followed by a co- ordinate attempt at a characterisation and appreciation of Goldschmidt: You are likewise unjust to Goldschmidt on this point, that I know with certainty.
As the dean one day was driving through the village in his carriole, just where the road turns sharply by the bridge below Aulestad, he met another carriole which was rapidly driving that way and in it a man who, without respect for the clerical vehicle, shouted with all the strength of his lungs: 'Half the road! The dean turned aside, saying with a sigh: 'Has Bjoernson come to the Gausdal at last? "It was indeed so, and he showed his colors at the start.
In the middle of the floor an immense Christmas tree was enthroned and brightly lighted. All the servant-folk came in, and Bjoernson spoke, beautifully and warmly, as he well knows how to do. 'Now you shall play a hymn, Grieg, he said, and although I did not quite like the notion of doing organist's work, I naturally complied without a murmur.
One would suppose that the example adduced established that similar natural qualifications, similar family and other conditions, in other words, the actual essential conditions of life, were of small importance compared with one's mode of thought, since the brothers could be so different; Bjoernson wished to establish, hereby, that the mode of life was more important than the mode of thought, although the former must depend on the latter.
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