I was a thin and small child in 1902 and before, but I dreamed I was big and fat and white like a fish. I dreamed like the child I was. I dreamed like the child I was in 1902 and before. In 1902 and before, it was winter so cold that the fjord was ice-cold from Akershusbrug and all the way down to Sottand. In 1902 and before, I stood on officers in Oslo's streets with stiff legs and pale paper beds. Oslo's streets were grey as cement in 1902 and before and smelled like an old fish. I dreamed of another city in 1902 and before. A city with pale, fat children that smelled of freshly fried air with butter. I dreamed like the child I was. I dreamed like the child I was in 1902 and before. In 1902 and before, there was a strike on Stalingrad day and night through the ice-cold winter. They killed each other from house to house, from street to street. And the dead lay there as dark cremations in the snow. While I and the others sat six hours every day, six days a week on our benches at the school and learned about the strike in Hafersfjord in 1872 and about the city in Belgium. Europe was about to collapse right outside the school gate, while we sat there by the benches like the animals in Noah's Ark, while the water was boiling. And what we did most of the time behind the windows was, of course, the same as children and young people have always done. And the same as the animals in the Ark did. We waited and dreamed about, I don't know what, about love, about food, about America. I wanted a different world in 1902 and before. A world to live in, that I would live forever in. I dreamed like the child I was. I dreamed like the child I was in 1902 and before. Foss school was old in 1902 and before. Tell me nothing else, but not only Foss school. The whole world was old in 1902 and before. When the winter snow fell over Osloby, she did not sleep. She passed away. She woke up, as if by a miracle, the next morning. And stood out on her icy fjord, and the world went green around her. I dreamed about a golden beach in 1902 and before. Where people and children went without shoes, and the sun was shining like the day before. I dreamed like the child I was. I dreamed like the child I was in 1902 and before. I was a thin and small child in 1902 and before. But I dreamed that I was big and fat, and shiny like a hairdresser. I dreamed like the child I was. I dreamed like the child I was in 1902 and before. I dreamed like the child I was in 1902 and before.