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Abra is the Abra in the film "East of Eden." I had a crush on Julie Harris. Abra Word® is what I call my one-man translation and editorial outfit. Since childhood I have been fascinated by the story of William the Translator. Below are some Danish works I have translated.

– Kenneth Tindall


The artistic necessity Bodil Kaalund
The Art of Greenland
University of California Press
Berkeley 1983

224 pages
ISBN: 0520048407

The honesty of the artist Poul Vad
Vilhelm Hammershøj and Danish Art
at the Turn of the Century

Yale University Press
New Haven and London 1992
463 pages. ISBN: 0300049560

A penetrating intro to Kierkegaard Johannes Sløk
Kierkegaard's Universe
– A New Guide to the Genius

The Danish Cultural Institute
Copenhagen 1992
155 pages. ISBN: 8774290886

Local history in minute detail Palle Ove Christiansen
A Manorial World
– Lord, Peasants and Cultural
Distinctions on a Danish Estate 1750-1980

Scandinavian University Press
Oslo 1996
596 pages. ISBN: 8200227359

Semiotics by a poet Hans-Erik Larsen
The Aesthetics of the Elements
– Imaginary Morphologies in Texts
and Paintings

Aarhus University Press
Aarhus 1996
111 pages. ISBN: 8772885416

Beautiful analyses of Borges and Proust Svend Østergaard
The Mathematics of Meaning
Aarhus University Press
Aarhus 1997
222 pages. ISBN: 8772885157

This was written in English, I did the textual revision and copyediting Bjarne Sode Funch
The Psychology of Art Appreciation
Museum Tusculanum Press
University of Copenhagen
Copenhagen 1998
312 pages. ISBN: 8772894024

I've got to tell somebody about this dream Ole Vedfelt
The Dimensions of Dreams
Fromm International
New York 1999
431 pages. ISBN: 0880642300

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