THE ART OF DEFINING A ‘GROOK’
Many people have reviewed Piet Hein’s ingenious verses over the years and sought for a deeper meaning hidden in their overall name ‘Grook’. Could ‘Gruk’ (the Danish name) be a contraction of GRin (laugh) and Suk (sigh)? Or was the name simply taken out of thin air – as Piet Hein himself often said. One thing is certain – Grook was a completely new and brilliantly apt title for the ingenious verses paid for by the line and written for the ‘Politiken’ column ATS from 1940 until 1961.
Mogens Lorentzen reviewed the Grooks in 1944 in Politiken, where he wrote, among other things: “Kumbel (the pseudonym Hein used) has a strange brain, specially tuned in to things that can neither be weighed or measured. He goes round words – a detour to the meaning. And at the point where things are beginning to turn serious in his hands, they turn into jokes.”
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