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サンタクロース
レジデンス5ヶ月と20日目
今週末は、アムスの中央駅から西にあるエリア、ヨルダンのNoord Marktにいきました。
ここは毎週土曜にオーガニックの市が立ちますが、私の目当てはその市のはじっこに少〜しだけある古本市です。サンタクロースの本を探していたからです。
季節外れのせいか、なかなか目当てのものがありません。
また出直すか・・と帰ろうとしたらポストカード(ほとんどが使用済み)の市で赤い帽子をかぶった変な動物のポストカードがありました。
何この変な動物は。
イタチ科らしい動物が、なぜか超目立つ赤い帽子をかぶって、森の茂みだか水面だかから顔を出してこっちを見てる。状況のおかしさと反対に本人たちはまじめな様子。
私は、期待するサンタクロースのイメージがすっかり頭にあったので、赤い帽子というアイコンの餌に目を奪われて不意打ちを食らったというかんじで、思わず笑ってしまいました。メルヘンはなんでもありなの?メルヘン恐るべし。
ただ、このメルヘンは絵はがきの周囲を囲む白い枠(みえるかな?)の中にだけ存在する世界だけど。
Santa Claus
Last Saturday, I visited Noord Markt in Jordan, which is located toward the west from Amsterdam Central Station.
There is an organic market every Saturday; but my purpose was to go to the second-hand book stands on the margin of it, as I was looking for a book about Santa Claus.
Probably because it is out of season, I could not find any.
Well, maybe next time... I was about to leave when, among the old postcards (most of them are used ones), I found a postcard with strange creatures wearing a red hat.
What are these strange creatures?
The weasel-like animals, each wearing, super-noticeable red pixie hat, are looking towards us from a bush in the wood (or from the surface of the water?). In spite of this strangely funny setting, they look very serious.
Their red hats caught my attention as I was looking for Santa Claus. But this unexpected gap between what I was looking for and what I found made me laugh. Is everything OK in the world of ‘Märchen’ – the world of the fairy tale?
But this world can only exist within this white frame (can you see it?).