Johan Gabrielsen

Because I think it's a really good description of these men.

This bunch, every morning of the year, permanent holiday.

How did they get away with it?

But yeah, Gordon knew.

Snake, divorced, had moved back to Bluebird to live with his widowed mother.

Red Cap, divorced, also lived with his widowed mother.

Tonsure Man, never married, lived in Bluebird in a bachelor flat beneath his widowed mother's house.

Knut, never married, lived in his car.

Fiery Sam, divorced, had moved with his widowed father into the disused firehouse.

Japan Ned, who could only be divorced, lived nearby.

No one had worked out where or with whom.

So these are kind of broken characters in a way.

And when I read about them and you find out a little bit more about them, you realize they're also quite juvenile.

Like they almost feel like their lives, and I think it's written somewhere in the book, their life is on hold.

Arrested development, yeah.

Yes.

So no one has really matured.

I find them quite juvenile, almost all of them.

And then this poor Gordon, but he's in this pressure chamber that everybody slightly feels...

sorry for him because all this shit has basically happened to his life, you know.