An unlikely best-seller, it is now exciting wood-burning Brits. She showed me her room
John Lennon, interview with David Sheff. While Mytting remains surprised at the roaring success of his book, he believes we harbour something of an instinctive affection for … Or should I say, she once had me? A dry-witted story of a man who failed to charm his love interest into bed, and how he got his revenge in an extreme (and sociopathic) way. It's a paradox really because the luxury and the mindfulness where we can embrace the moment and have this wonderful time in front of the chopping block was completely absent in those days. Go directly to shout page. But I can’t remember any specific woman it had to do with. "One can delve into the dream of the self-sufficient reality of the cold north, and life in a cabin heated by energy from wood. Create a commenting name to join the debate, There are no Independent Premium comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts, There are no comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts. Scrobbling is when Last.fm tracks the music you listen to and automatically adds it to your music profile. Our journalists will try to respond by joining the threads when they can to create a true meeting of independent Premium. These people know that without it man would never have been able to inhabit land so far north in the first place. Let us know what you think of the Last.fm website. You can also choose to be emailed when someone replies to your comment. Without a chainsaw, with only muscle and an axe, they needed two to four, perhaps even six times more firewood than we do today, because it was their only source of energy.". It was the wood. So I lit a fire Robert Penn, author of The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees, delves into our intimate relationship with wood in his new book, by finding out how many different things can be made from an ash tree. Isn't it good, Norwegian wood? The existing Open Comments threads will continue to exist for those who do not subscribe to Independent Premium. In Elverum, winter temperatures hang around the -30C mark. 2. It is notable as the first example of a rock band actually playing the sitar in one of their songs; it was played by George Harrison. You're unlikely to recoup the cost of fitting a fancy stove from the savings on your heating bill, but a "feature fireplace" can reportedly add as much as five per cent to the value of your home. Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. It's a very basic dream of human survival.". In 1985, Murakami wrote Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, a dream-like fantasy that took the magical elements of his work to a new extreme. While Mytting remains surprised at the roaring success of his book, he believes we harbour something of an instinctive affection for flames: "Fire is mankind's oldest energy," he points out. The first four-hour slot was a celebration of all things firewood, starting with Mytting building and lighting a fire. It was a very, very hard way of surviving. I was sort of writing from my experiences, girls’ flats, things like that.” While credited to Lennon/McCartney, it was primarily written by John Lennon, though Paul McCartney contributed to the middle eight section. Nor did a book about it, until I heard about Norwegian Wood: Chopping, Stacking and Drying Wood the Scandinavian Way. The next two parts broadcast a log fire; the only activity is when wood is added to the flames, and an interlude where a camera operator toasts a sausage. Get answers to your Norwegian Wood questions like Who wrote Norwegian Wood? And when I awoke First of all, there’s no furniture to burn. "In the old days I don't think there was any romance in it at all. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later?

I once had a girlOr should I say she once had meShe showed me her roomIsn't it good Norwegian wood?She asked me to stayAnd she told me to sit…. Retired engineer Ole Kristian Kjelling is famous in Norway for his woodpile portraits of Queen Sonja and King Harald V, Norway's current monarchs, and the 18th-century composer Rossini. We know it’s a smoke-screen, because if you read the quotes again, Lennon says as much. Haruki Murakami, one of the most influential Japanese authors of our time, wrote a book inspired by this song and named it “Norwegian Wood.”, “I was trying to write about an affair without letting me wife know I was writing about an affair, so it was very gobbledegook.

Like Norwegian Wood, this book is bound for great things, and has already been chosen as BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week over Christmas. He is a likeable, stoic neighbour in the small town of Elverum in south-eastern Norway, where Mytting had moved to, and the man who taught Mytting that "a wood fire is about so much more than heat".
Independent Premium Comments can be posted by members of our membership scheme, Independent Premium. A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. But we do have lots of trees. Mytting, 47, worked as a journalist and non-fiction editor before turning to writing. [Verse 3: John Lennon] Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. We talked until two And then she said, "It's time for bed" In 2013, prompted by the success of Mytting's book, Norway's public-service broadcaster NRK ran 12 hours of programming on wood, in three parts, as part of its experiments in "slow television". 'Norwegian Wood' is a paean to the wonders of felling, chopping and burning trees.

She told me she worked in the morning and started to laugh The most insightful comments on all subjects will be published daily in dedicated articles. Due to the sheer scale of this comment community, we are not able to give each post the same level of attention, but we have preserved this area in the interests of open debate. "I've never seen a man change quite the way he did. Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. Are you sure you want to mark this comment as inappropriate? She asked me to stay and she told me to sit anywhere It allows our most engaged readers to debate the big issues, share their own experiences, discuss real-world solutions, and more. All his life he'd chopped his own firewood… He enjoyed the feel of each log in his hand, the smell that made him feel he was at work inside a poem, the sense of security in his stack, the pleasing thought of the winter that lay ahead, with all those hours of sitting contentedly in front of his woodburning stove.". Ultimately, the question was if John Lennon wrote Norwegian Wood after hearing 4th Time Around - the current evidence shows that Norwegian Wood was written and recorded before 4th Time Around, so it is unlikely unless someone can place Lennon at a Dylan gig playing a song he wouldn't record for months – user2276 Sep 21 '17 at 14:43.