hexametric melodramas

It's midsummer now. Officially. All the people of this country are getting drunk and stupid somewhere thousands kilometres away from me. That's quite nice actually. The neighbourhood is as quiet and empty as it could be. Birds sing outside and I lie in the hammock and read Tove Jansson's Moominsummer Madness. A book about Moomins entering the wonderful world of theatre and performing Moominpappa's pompous hexametric melodrama.

One summer morning at sunrise a long time ago
I met a little girl with a book under her arm.
I asked her why she was out so early and
she answered that there were too many books and
far too little time. And there she was absolutely right.

- Tove Jansson