My job was to keep the house clean, get the children off to school, help the cook-housekeeper, and serve at table. The house was much more perfect than the sort of gilt-bordered Christmas-card-Heaven that a crooked-nosed woman would sacrifice everything to attain in the next world: it was an all-electric house, with machines being plugged in and started up all day long; there was no such thing as a fire; heat came from hot-springs underground, and the glowing embers in the fireplace were made of glass.


Atómstöðin (The Atom Station) (1948)

Halldór Laxness Quotes

My job was to keep the house clean, get the children off to school, help the cook-housekeeper, and serve at table. The house was much more perfect...

My job was to keep the house clean, get the children off to school, help the cook-housekeeper, and serve at table. The house was much more perfect...

My job was to keep the house clean, get the children off to school, help the cook-housekeeper, and serve at table. The house was much more perfect...

My job was to keep the house clean, get the children off to school, help the cook-housekeeper, and serve at table. The house was much more perfect...