ASLAKSEN.
Det var vore lokale forholde han snakked for! Ho-ho!
ASLAKSEN. It was the local situation
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he was talking about! Ho-ho!
1. “Local situation” is a very ineffectual rendering of Aslaksen’s phrase, “lokale forholde” -- German, Verhaltnisse -- but there seems to be no other which will fit into all the different contexts in which it occurs. It reappears in An Enemy of the People, Act V.
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