Peter Sean Woltemade
PETER SEAN WOLTEMADE is the translator of more than a dozen published books, including Stefanie Ross’s Nemesis. Forthcoming book translations include Martin Österdahl’s Ask No Mercy and Ten Swedes Must Dieas well as Ulla Lunn’s When Architecture Tells the Story of the Virgin Islands of the United States. His work has appeared in Border Crossing, Columbia, Exchanges,
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By Thomas Boberg, translated from the Danish by Peter Sean WoltemadeThe philosopher gave me five cans of spaghetti with sliced franks in tomato sauce. Then he turned around and got into his dented Ford, which must once have been green. I shouted a question about why philosophers and prophets always lived in shacks, and he shouted back that living philosophy and a stable personal economy were two incompatible things that posed a philosophical question, that necessitated a choice.
