Picture Books Talking Animals Nature

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The Secret Vice PressTallinn, Estonia

Copyright 2006 Rolf Andersen

First Published 2006

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Rolf AndersenThe House / Rolf Andersen

69p. ; ill. ; 29cm.ISBN 9985-80-001-X (paperback)

1. Picture books Talking animals Nature of personal identity 2. Picture books s-Architecture Immortality

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Once,

not long ago,


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There used

to be a house


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Up on a high,

high hill


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And for some time

it was completely empty


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Nobody knew who

built the house,

or who it belonged to,

or who lived in it.


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Until one day,

when it happened to be


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That a small fly

was living in the house.


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And the fly thought

to himself for a moment


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and said:

This house was built

by those like me.

My kind built this house,and so too they made me.


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The fly was pleased

by this thought.


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So he left the house,


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And went down into

a valley,


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And crossed a river,


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And flew through

a forest,


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And came to a cliff

at the edge of the forest.

and said, as loud ashe could:


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I am the lordof the houseon the hill,

and I will live forever.


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The next morning,

there was no fly

living in the house.


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Instead, there was

a toad.


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And the toad thought

to himself for a moment.

He thought:

I used to be a fly,


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and he said:

But this house was built

by those like me.

My kind built this house,

and so too they made me.


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The toad was pleased

by this thought.


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And went down into

the valley,


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And swam across the river,


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And hopped through

the forest,


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And came to the cliff

at the edge of the forest.



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The next morning,

there was no toad



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Instead, there was

a bird.


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And the bird thought


He thought:I used to be a toad, and

before that a fly, but allthe while I have been

Forever Bird: That ismy name.


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and he said:

For this house was built

by those like me.




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The bird was pleased

by this thought.


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which he namedForever House,


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And flew across the river,

which he namedSwift River,


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And hopped through

the forest,

which he namedDark Forest,


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The next morning,

there was no bird



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And the donkey thought


He thought:I used to be a bird, and

before that a toad, andbefore that a fly.

Who am I now?


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and he said:

Surely, at least, this house

was built by those like me.




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The donkey was pleased

by this thought.


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So he left the house

that he lived in,


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And went down into

the valley by his home,


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And waded across the

river he drank from,


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And walked through

the forest,

where he sometimes

went to be quiet,


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And came to the cliff

at the edge of the forest,



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The next morning,

there was no donkey



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Instead, there was

a snake.


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And the snake thought


He thought:I have been many things,

so many that I haveforgotten them.


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The snake was not pleased

by this confusion,

but he had another

thought, which

he kept to himself.


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So he left,


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And went down,


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And swam across,


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And slithered through,


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And came to the cliff,



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The next morning, there

was nothing at all

in the houseon the

hill.


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