<link href="css/WhatNeverHappe_style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <meta content="urn:uuid:95f1cf6f-fc8e-4f49-b56a-7c17920baaa6" name="Adept.expected.resource"/></head><body><div class="body"><div class="chapter" id="chapter_19"> <p class="bmh"><a href="WhatNeverHappe_toc.html#chap_19">Postscript</a></p> <p class="cotx"><span class="dropcap">T</span>his book opens with a quotation by Walter Benjamin. The quotation was used in Lars Fr. H. Svendsen’s book <em>Kjedsomhetens filosofi</em> (<em>A Philosophy of Boredom</em>) (Universitetsforlaget 1999), which has been a great source of inspiration and help in writing <em>What Never Happens</em>.</p> <p>On page 193, there is a quotation from an unnamed source: “And you’re dying so slowly that you think you’re alive.” I am obliged to say that this is taken from the title poem in a collection of poems, <em>Og du dør så langsomt at du tror du lever</em>, by Bertrand Besigye (Gyldendal 1993).</p> <p>I would like to thank Alexander Elgurén for his irrepressible enthusiasm and Randi Krogsveen for her invaluable help.</p> <p>This book is for you, Tine, as all my books are.</p> <p class="lsig">Anne Holt</p> <p class="ld">Oslo, June 18, 2004</p> </div></div></body></html>