The Ice Cream Man
“The first thing we notice is how pale he is. Just like Snow White. His skin white as snow, his hair black as ebony.
He’s not from around here. You can tell from the way he’s looking over the rail. Sleet is falling into the Kattegat, and the sky is irrevocably mixed up with the clouds. It’s clear he has never seen the sea before, and of all the boys we have ever seen, he is the saddest-looking one of them all. He would surely leap over the rail if he had seen the sea before, and the mere act... of seeing it no longer held any fascination for him.
We immediately hit on the idea to take him to Kerstin. Would Kerstin like him? Snow White from the story isn’t a man, of course, but that doesn’t matter. We know what Kerstin would say: the only reason she’s a girl is because the prince is a boy.
The boy looks at the sea, and the sea calls to him with its foamy mouth, sleet running down the back of his neck. It must be cold for such a slender fellow.MoreLess
He’s not from around here. You can tell from the way he’s looking over the rail. Sleet is falling into the Kattegat, and the sky is irrevocably mixed up with the clouds. It’s clear he has never seen the sea before, and of all the boys we have ever seen, he is the saddest-looking one of them all. He would surely leap over the rail if he had seen the sea before, and the mere act... of seeing it no longer held any fascination for him.
We immediately hit on the idea to take him to Kerstin. Would Kerstin like him? Snow White from the story isn’t a man, of course, but that doesn’t matter. We know what Kerstin would say: the only reason she’s a girl is because the prince is a boy.
The boy looks at the sea, and the sea calls to him with its foamy mouth, sleet running down the back of his neck. It must be cold for such a slender fellow.MoreLess
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