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Friday, December 20–Saturday, December 21
Erika Berger looked up quizzically when an apparently1 freezing Blomkvist came into the editorial office. Millennium2’s offices were in the centre of the trendy section of G?tgatan, above the offices of Greenpeace. The rent was actually a bit too steep for the magazine, but they had all agreed to keep the space.
She glanced at the clock. It was 5:10, and darkness had fallen over Stockholm long before. She had been expecting him around lunchtime.
“I’m sorry,” he said before she managed to say anything. “But I was feeling the weight of the verdict and didn’t feel like talking. I went for a long walk to think things over.”
“I heard the verdict on the radio. She from TV4 called and wanted a comment.”
“What’d you say?”
“Something to the effect that we were going to read the judgement carefully before we make any statements. So I said nothing. And my opinion still holds: it’s the wrong strategy. We come off looking weak with the media. They will run something on TV this evening.”
Blomkvist looked glum3.
“How are you doing?”
Blomkvist shrugged4 and plopped down in his favourite armchair next to the window in Erika’s office. The decor was spartan5, with a desk and functional6 bookcases and cheap office furniture. All of it was from IKEA apart from the two comfortable and extravagant7 armchairs and a small end table—a concession8 to my upbringing, she liked to say. She would sit reading in one of the armchairs with her feet tucked underneath9 her when she wanted to get away from the desk. Blomkvist looked down on G?tgatan, where people were hurrying by in the dark. Christmas shopping was in full swing.
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millennium
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concession
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journalism
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celebrity
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loathing
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manifestation
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radicalism
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assassination
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speculations
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champagne
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publicity
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graphic
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advertising
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shareholder
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exhausted
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collapses
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spotlight
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