"The fund's performance reflects development in global financial markets during 2012, " the fund's chief executive Yngve Slyngstad said.

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"We have already expressed our support, both morally and politically, for the process started by the Irish and we understand fully the worries they feel as they are the same worries we feel in relation to our own coastal areas, " the leader of Norway's parliamentary energy and environment committee, Bror Yngve Rahm, told Reuters.

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The need for totality that brings pages about playing the guitar, about drinking tea, about wearing his Doc Martens and listening to his Walkman, about how his brother, Yngve, has always thought the music of Queen unfairly underestimated, about the name of the band that he later formed with his brother (named, rather wonderfully, Kafkatrakterne), also brings superb, lingering, celestial passages, like the one in which Knausgaard cannot sleep, and paces his apartment.

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