Norwegian translation of The Basketball Diaries
By Jim Carroll
Translated by Per Ivar Martinsen
Erika Forlag, 1996
Based on the 1981 Bantam Books edition.
Excerpt
HØST 1965
77.
En nedtegnelse funnet på en av de små lekseblokkene du får for ti cent hos Gussie’s . . . jeg skrev om en LSD-opplevelse jeg hadde for en stund siden:“Småunger kaster klinkekuler
der greinene bryter solaopp i grasiøse spyd av lys . . .
jeg ønsker bar å være rein.”Jeg fant det helt oppsmuldra i ei gammal bukse i historietimen i morges.
From The Basketball Diaries, Penguin Edition (1987), pages 140-41.
Fall 1965
A note found on one of those little homework pads you cop for ten cents at Gussie’s . . .
I wrote on an experience with L.S. D. a while ago:“Little kids shoot marbles
where the branches break the suninto graceful shafts of light . . .
I just want to be pure.”I found it all crumbled up in these old pants in history class this morning.
Cover art: Per Ivar Martinsen
Cover photograph: Dag Alveng