{"id":3927,"date":"2017-09-26T13:27:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T11:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ordfraenbibliofil.dk\/?p=3927"},"modified":"2021-08-11T08:35:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T06:35:02","slug":"the-phantom-tollbooth-af-norton-juster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ordfraenbibliofil.dk\/?p=3927","title":{"rendered":"The Phantom Tollbooth af Norton Juster"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Phantom Tollbooth af Norton Juster, 1999. Collins Modern Classics. Antal stjerner: 5\/5<\/em><\/p>\n

Findes der lande, som ikke er at finde i et ganske almindeligt atlas og hvis der er, hvordan kommer man s\u00e5 dertil?<\/p>\n

I denne bog, der f\u00f8rste gang blev udgivet allerede tilbage i 1961, m\u00f8der vi den unge dreng Milo, som har det med at kede sig ganske ofte. Han mister hurtigere interessen for ting end de fleste andre b\u00f8rn, men en dag finder han en mystisk pakke, da han kommer hjem fra skole.\u00a0Pakken indeholder udover en form for betalingsanl\u00e6g, som dem man ser ved gr\u00e6nser, et virkelig interessant kort, som Milo hurtigt fatter interesse for:<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the announcement stated, it was a beautiful map, in many colors, showing principal roads, rivers and seas, towns and cities, mountains and valleys, intersections and detours, and sites of outstanding interest both beautiful and historic.<\/em><\/p>\n

The only trouble was that Milo had never heard of any of the places it indicated, and even the names sounded most peculiar.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think there really is such a country,” he concluded after studying it carefully. “Well, it doesn’t matter anyway.” And he closed his eyes and poked a finger at the map.<\/p>\n

“Dictionopolis,” read Milo slowly when he saw what his finger had chosen. “Oh, well, I might as well go there as anywhere.”<\/p>\n

He walked across the room and dusted the car off carefully. Then, taking the map and rule book with him, he hopped in and, for lack of anything better to do, drove slowly up to the tollbooth. As he deposited his coin and rolled past he remarked wistfully, “I do hope this is an interesting game, otherwise the afternoon will be so terribly dull.”<\/p>\n

Og pludselig befinder han sig ikke l\u00e6ngere p\u00e5 sit v\u00e6relse. Han er draget afsted til en verden, hvor byer f.eks. kan hedde Dictionopolis og Digitopolis, hvor dyr kan tale og hvor prinsesser kan indesp\u00e6rres i de h\u00f8jere luftlag. Ikke alt er idyllisk i denne verden og f\u00f8r han har set sig ordentligt om, er han p\u00e5 vej ud for at finde prinsesserne Rhyme og Reason, da de plejer at kunne f\u00e5 deres br\u00f8dre, som henholdsvis bor i Digitopolis og Dictionopolis, til at blive enige, selvom kongen Azaz fra sidstn\u00e6vnte by er helt sikker p\u00e5, at bogstaver er vigtigst, hvorimod hans bror kaldet The Mathemagician mener, at det er tal, der er vigtigst. Men Milo begiver sig ikke alene afsted. Han f\u00e5r f\u00f8lgeskab af hunden Tock og insektet The Humbug og undervejs m\u00f8der de en dreng kaldet Alec Bing, som flyver rundt oppe i luften af en ganske m\u00e6rkv\u00e6rdig grund:<\/p>\n

\u201cHe hopped a few steps in the air, skipped back to where he started, and then began again.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cYou certainly must be very old to have reached the ground already.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cOh no,\u201d said Milo seriously. \u201cIn my family we all start on the ground and grow up, and we never know how far until we actually get there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat a silly system.\u201d The boy laughed. \u201cThen your head keeps changing its height and you always see things in a different way? Why, when you\u2019re fifteen things won\u2019t look at all the way they did when you were ten, and at twenty everything will change again.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI suppose so,\u201d replied Milo, for he had never really thought about the matter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Men er det til at finde det s\u00e5kaldte \u201dCastle in the air\u201d, hvor prinsesserne opholder sig og er det muligt for Milo at komme hjem igen til hans egen verden?<\/p>\n

Denne fort\u00e6lling er s\u00e5 tidl\u00f8s, at jeg slet ikke havde troet, at den blev udgivet f\u00f8rste gang tilbage i 1961. Desv\u00e6rre har jeg ikke kunnet opst\u00f8ve en dansk udgave af den og selv faldt jeg tilf\u00e6ldigt over den p\u00e5 arbejdet ovre ved de engelske b\u00f8rneb\u00f8ger, da jeg egentlig var p\u00e5 udkig efter en anden bog. Det er en ganske m\u00e6rkv\u00e6rdig fort\u00e6lling, som med sine lommefilosofiske betragtninger b\u00e5de egner sig til b\u00f8rn og voksne. Det er bestemt ikke sidste gang, at jeg l\u00e6ser den og jeg tror, at det er en bog, der er helt perfekt til fans af \u201dAlice in Wonderland\u201d, \u201dPeter Pan\u201d og \u201dThe Wizard of Oz\u201d, da den ogs\u00e5 tager sin l\u00e6ser med p\u00e5 en virkelig interessant rejse.<\/p>\n

Alt i alt en fantastisk fort\u00e6lling om Milo, der sammen med nye venner er p\u00e5 en mission i et ukendt land og som undervejs l\u00e6rer lidt om hvordan verden kan anskues p\u00e5 forskellig vis.<\/p>\n

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