“It's a pity we don't whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading.”
Pastor Jón Prímus
Kristnihald undir Jökli (Under the Glacier/Christianity at Glacier) (1968)
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Context: p>The busy chatter of the heat
Shrilled like a parakeet;
And shuddering at the noonday light
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Hints of Reality.</p
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