“One asks and asks and always the answers become more incomprehensible than the question. In the end one becomes an idiot.
- EmBi”

—  Halldór Laxness, book Kristnihald undir Jökli (bók)

Kristnihald undir Jökli (Under the Glacier/Christianity at Glacier) (1968)

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