Hygge
HOO-guh
n.Warmth, ease and companionship deliberately made.
DanishEstablished linguistic term
The Fourth Candle
The Australian kept trying to improve it.
"We could get a projector," said Josh, in November, in a flat in Aarhus, watching his girlfriend's family arrange four people around a low table for the fourth consecutive Friday.
"Why?" said Karen's mother.
"For films. Then there's something to—" He stopped, because five Danes had turned to look at him with polite incomprehension.
"There is something to do," said Karen's mother. "This."
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He had been there four months and had privately concluded that his girlfriend's entire country was suffering from a mass failure of ambition.