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Consumption is a widespread disease
in Kristiania nowadays
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especially amongst the poor
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and in crowded areas.
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How long are your working hours?
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From six to six
with an hour's break for lunch.
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- How much do you earn?
- Fifteen crowns a week.
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The year 1884.
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Kristiania, capital city of Norway,
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with beerhalls, cafés,
several tivoli music halls,
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but with no opera, no ballet
and no academy of art.
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Bless us, O Lord,
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and these Thy gifts
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which of Thy bounty
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we are about to receive. Amen.
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Of Kristiania's 135,000 inhabitants,
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the ruling strata is
the middle-class, the borgerskap,
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conservative by politics,
Protestant by religion.
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The Karl Johan Gate,
principle thoroughfare in a city
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whose Germanic buildings
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reflect the origins
of its main architects.
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Here, in the summer,
weather permitting,
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the Kristiania middle-class
gather for the daily promenade.
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I work in a factory too.
I have to be up before five