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Solvej Balle deserves the Nobel Prize for Literature for "On the Calculation of Volume." A canonical series of novels, and a profound work of philosophy. One of those rare moments where I agree with all the hyperbole about a piece of art. As Knausgaard says, "absolutely, absolutely incredible."

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Tor Ekeland @torekeland.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“On the Calculation of Volume” is a metaphysical experience.

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Tor Ekeland @torekeland.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

That’s a display for the Nobel Peace Prize Center behind the display of Viking swords at Oslo airport.

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Tor Ekeland @torekeland.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It’s nice to be in a place where people will nerd out with you over a painter.

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Tor Ekeland @torekeland.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Asta Nørregaard (1853–1933) blew me away. A fantastic portrait painter. Her first-ever retrospective, ‘Truth and Beauty’ is now at the National Museum in Oslo.

A woman in a black dress sits on a polar bear fur with flowers on an end table beside her.

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Tor Ekeland @torekeland.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Van Gogh self portrait, 1889, National Museum, Oslo.

Self portrait of a fiercely
depressed Van Gogh facing left with head turned 3/4 and looking at the viewer with intense resignation

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Tor Ekeland @torekeland.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Beware the novel when a sentence will suffice.

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Tor Ekeland @torekeland.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Military genius is depending on expensive weaponry you can’t mass produce to defend yourself against an adversary who can mass produce cheap weaponry.

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Tor Ekeland @torekeland.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

How do you run out of weapons on that budget?

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Tor Ekeland @torekeland.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I’ve decided to run for Congress because I want government health insurance and paid sabbaticals where I get to dissappear.

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Tor Ekeland @torekeland.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The part of your trip where you have to get a new bag to take home all the books you bought when you haven’t even read the ones you brought.

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Tor Ekeland @torekeland.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Oslo is a lovely city except when people call you at midnight because they think you’re in New York.

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Tor Ekeland @torekeland.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

If idle hands are the tools of the devil I'm a saint right now.

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Tor Ekeland @torekeland.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

One of the things that I'm delighted to be wrong about in my old age is the death of the Grand Jury. They originated because of abusive prosecutions, and it's nice to see them get back to their roots.

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Tor Ekeland @torekeland.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Been busy still here just saying hi.

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Tor Ekeland @torekeland.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Reading Septology and getting that feeling I got when I first read Beckett.

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Tor Ekeland @torekeland.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

So Swalwell’s gonna run for President now?

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Tor Ekeland @torekeland.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

If he'd shown up for Vietnam maybe he would've thought twice.

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Tor Ekeland @torekeland.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Most of our military bases in the Mid East got hit hard and have serious damage. I'm watching Iranian cartoons of missiles hitting the Statue of Liberty (which I can see from my window), and the U.S. has lifted sanctions on Iranian Oil, giving Iran billions of $. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/u...

nytimes.com

Iran’s Attacks Force U.S. Troops to Work Remotely

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Tor Ekeland @torekeland.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

The Corgi would do a better job of getting us out of this war.

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Tor Ekeland @torekeland.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

No one who owns a Corgi is surprised.

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Tor Ekeland @torekeland.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

AI just Faust with mediocre prose.

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Tor Ekeland @torekeland.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Congratulations on decapitating a hydra!

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Tor Ekeland @torekeland.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

This glorification of war an evolutionary defect.

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Tor Ekeland @torekeland.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Shakespeare would’ve had a field day with this guy.

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Tor Ekeland @torekeland.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

War cares not a jot for anyone’s name.

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Tor Ekeland @torekeland.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

People who don’t read history love to tell you how things are different now.

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

4th Cir., 2-1, affirms a jury finding that the operators of the Abu Ghraib Prison in 2008 are liable for conspiracy to commit torture and conspiracy to commit cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment under the Alien Tort Statute. Damages awarded: $42 million. www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/251...

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Tor Ekeland @torekeland.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

No one has any real war correspondents anywhere do they? All this reporting is just regurgitation of pressers put on by one side or the other. Please correct me if I’m missing something.

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Tor Ekeland @torekeland.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

We’re 40 trillion dollars in debt, what’s another billion dollars a day?

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