"Dagens Nyheter follow up things much better than do the Norweigan papers, they hardly ever mention B. at all, I think it has something to do with his trend in Philosophy...." 

Nalle describes her lunch with BR. "He looks very old now, deep creases in his face, but fun as always to talk to." Nalle likes Edith Russell. "She gives one excellent food and everything looks tidy and there are heaps of flowers about, so different from any house of B's I have ever seen." BR told Nalle that they have bought a "biggish" house in Wales. BR asked much about Colette and was worried that she was cross with him. "B. has seen a lot of Russians during this atomic period of his and made a lot of fun about that." (S. Turcon note)