“I was, however, more interested in steam engines than in electric ones. In other words, I was more romantic than technical.”

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För levande och döda (For the Living and the Dead) 1996

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Swedish poet, psychologist and translator 1931–2015

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“I was, however, more interested in steam engines than in electric ones. In other words, I was more romantic than technical.”

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