I will expect a summary, review with personal and professional notes on the prose, poetic style and content, as well as a full write up on the validity and place this book has in Norwegian literature.
I expect you to grade this book as you would if you were nominating books for the Norwegian Literary awards, pushing the positive points and feeding back any developmental issues.
You will be graded on this as per the previously assigned work. I will need your papers submitted by Monday. This is an obligatory part of the course and will have a pass/fail mark.
Apologies for the late change of assignment, and please discard the previous work assigned for this week. If you have already completed the work you are welcome to submit it for extra credit.
Best regards
Jens
JENS: I am on my way.
AXEL: I love you.
JENS: I hate you. You have completely ruined my day. All I can think of is you. And Sex.
AXEL: You don’t hate me and do tell me about what you have been thinking about.
AXEL: About the sex I mean.
JENS: I might have spent an hour reading ‘Dummies Guide to Anal Sex.’
AXEL: Oh baby. You know we don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do. It was a bit shit of me to just presume that you would let me fuck you.
AXEL: I want to fuck you. Don’t get me wrong. There is nothing I want more.
AXEL: I’m doing it again.
AXEL: Tell me to shut up. I am digging myself into a big hole here.
JENS: SHUT UP AXEL .
AXEL: Ok. I love you.
JENS: I have bought lube. And condoms.
AXEL: Me too. (heart emoji)
JENS: I can’t wait for you to make me come so hard I don’t even know my own name.
AXEL: I will do my best.
JENS: I need to remember my name for 4 o’clock though, so I can pick up the kids on time.
AXEL: Got it. Can I come home with you again? I will give you time to work, promise.
JENS: Please, come home with me.
AXEL: I love you.
JENS: I am outside your door. I hope you are naked.
From: [email protected]
RE: Interview on Good Morning Norway
Axel, Just received this from the Good Morning Norway show. Seems like a good opportunity for you, if you are willing to do it. You have clearance from the press office to say yes. Please come and see me beforehand, so we can talk about things you should and should not say, as you will still officially be a representative of this hospital. Just a friendly reminder.
Regards Hedda
From: [email protected]
Re: Axel Kleve Midwife as seen on PNN.no
Dear Press Office,
I am trying to get hold of Axel Kleve, one of your midwives, who is currently a very popular blogger on PNN.no. The Good Morning Norway team are very keen to invite him to come and speak to us on the Good Morning Norway sofa. Please forward my contact details to him and let him know that we would love to see ‘J’ as well, as having the two of them as guests would be a tremendous honour for us.
If you could see the sheer volume of requests we have had to bring him and his partner onto the show, you would be amazed. It seems as your Mr Kleve is quite a popular man.
Kind rgds
Marit Toresen
Good Morning Norway Team leader
Axel’s apartment, Majorstua, Oslo
Jens is still shaking as he gets off the tram. He does realise that he has done some shitty things to his students in the past, and that changing the assignment for this week at the last minute might have been a seriously devious thing to do. But handing them this assignment with only half a week to complete it is probably totally evil. And getting shouted at by two very well-spoken and normally very reasonable doctorate students probably proves that. He gets their point of view. He does. He also knows that he is being a complete fucktard expecting his students to do the work that he should have been doing all year, and it is a completely unreasonable thing to ask of them.
Not that he cares. They will do the work, and he will have a ridiculous amount of reading to do next week to sort and categorise and make sense of his students’ reviews. Well, the ones he will be able to make sense out of. Some of his students are bonkers. Some of the papers will be plain unreadable. At least he can make an informed choice on which books he might take the time to read himself.
Jens managed to run his classes flawlessly today, speaking from memory and letting his words flow. The students were silent. He thinks he did well. He thinks he got to them today, got them under his spell, got them to understand his passion for words. The way you can string them together into something gut wrenchingly beautiful, then remove one word and make the sentence fall flat. He gets passionate when he speaks. When his arms flail and his fingers keep combing through his hair until it stands up at every angle under the sun. The way he gets hot under the collar and throws his tie across the room mid-sentence.
He is exhausted by the time he has finished, barely coherent to the questions he is fielding from the students, even though he has slept better these last weeks than he has done in months. He sleeps solidly through the night when Axel is there next to him. Axel’s body warmth soothing the restlessness in his dreams.
So he went and hid in his office, letting himself rest with his head against the laptop on the work surface in front of him. Willing the clock to tick faster so two o’clock could happen quicker.
He is nervous. Nervous as hell. Not because of Axel. No, he can’t wait to see Axel. He just doesn’t know what he has said yes to. He wants the sex. God. Yes. Yes please. He wants all the sex. He is no virgin, oh no. He has done a few bits. A few things with Axel. That’s where his experience starts and ends.
But he is about to get his mind blown, he is pretty sure of that. Well, hopefully. God help him. His cock is throbbing in his trousers again and he must take a swift walk down the hall to get another coffee before he starts to think about sex again. Sex. Sex. Sex. Axel. Axel. Axel. Sex, Axel. Axel, Sex. Sex. Axel is going to fuck him. Axel is going to fuck him into the mattress until he can’t remember who he is. Yes, please, to the last bit. And the rest. He hopes.
At least he got Professor Hussain’s Doctorate papers read. Piece of cake. Easy. He graded last week’s essays in a frenzy. Logged the results. Drank another cup of coffee. Smiled sweetly at Kjellstrøm when he moaned about covering Jens’ classes again.
Jens knows he doesn’t really mind. Kjellstrøm is a handsome bastard and a ridiculous flirt and the students love him. Well they definitely love Kjellstrøm more than Jens right now after Jens has thrown this latest assignment at them. Jens is evil. He had almost cackled to himself as he slammed the door to his office shut behind him. Stuffed his suit jacket in his holdall and skipped down the steps to the tram stop.