“A good pony can occur on a farm once in a generation, with luck; but on some farms, never in a thousand years. From the sea, beyond the sands and marshes, for a thousand years, the murmur was always the same.”

— Halldór Laxness

Paradísarheimt (Paradise Reclaimed) (1960)

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