In the winter of 2006, he fell victim to depression and checked into hospital, the aftermath of which left him "like a blank sheet of paper, " he told Danish paper Politiken at the time.

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Such displays usually take the form of a large, blank sheet of paper on which students are invited to write anything they like.

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