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Aase's Death Nat Raha considering the broken voices ofAase Berg (trans. Johannes Gransson) One might expect a book by Aase Berg with the title Aases Death to be dark, and it is. You may also expect it to be parodic, and maybe it is that too. But if its parodic, its darkly parodic. A defiantly dark laughter animates the book. Its alsolike most of her writinga slangy, linguistically playful book. Berg has argued that at the heart of language is a kind of happy babbling for the sake of babbling. But in