Your daily moomin
Oct 1, 2003 Read/heard/seen
For this month, I’m going to type in passages from one of Tove Jansson’s moomin books as an encouragement to you all to rush on out and get them. Some of them have been reprinted by the good people at Farrar, Straus and Giroux and they’re worth tracking down. Seriously. Get them.
It’s the right evening for a tune, Snufkin thought. A new tune, one part expectation, two parts spring sadness, and for the rest, just the great delight of walking alone and liking it.He had kept this tune under his hat for several days, but hadn’t quite dared to take it out yet. It had to grow into a kind of happy conviction. Then, he would simply have to put his lips to the mouthorgan, and all the notes would jump instantly in to their places.
If he released them too soon they might get stuck crossways and make only a half-good tune, or he might lose them altogether and never be in the right mood to get hold of them again. Tunes are serious things, especially if they have to be jolly and sad at the same time.
But this evening Snufkin felt rather sure of his tune. It was there, waiting, nearly full-grown — and it was going to be the best he ever made.
Today’s daily moomin was brought to you by Tales from Moominvalley.
October 2nd, 2003 at 12:19 pm
Yay! Everyone could benefit from a daily dose of Moomin, I think…
I read the books a lot as a child (along with Chronicles of Narnia, the Hobbit, and My Side of the Mountain) and I still find myself using turns-of-phrase or ways of describing things that would not be out of place in one or more of those books.