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Saturday, June 10, 2006

A dedication to Edith Södergran from Peter Klevius without love

The foremost Nordic modernist poet, Edith Södergran, was a Finland-Swedish like Peter Klevius (meaning she belonged to a small Swedish language/cultural tradition in Finland). This minority group has lived in a special niche between the east and the west (compare e.g. Finland-Swedish author Johannes Salminen who 1994 proposed for Finland's role as a gateway not only for trade but also for culture between east and west). Although this may have contributed to some disturbed creativity (see Inside Klevius' mind) the main point here is a formula for analyzing sex segregation in regard to the human existence. In this endevour EMAH is the theoretical blackboard

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