I do not see how the Creation can be turned into words, let alone letters, hardly even a fiction. History is always entirely different to what has happened. The facts are all fled from you before you start the story. History is simply a fact on its own. And the closer you try to approach the facts through history, the deeper you sink into fiction.


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

Halldór Laxness Quotes

I do not see how the Creation can be turned into words, let alone letters, hardly even a fiction. History is always entirely different to what has...

I do not see how the Creation can be turned into words, let alone letters, hardly even a fiction. History is always entirely different to what has...

I do not see how the Creation can be turned into words, let alone letters, hardly even a fiction. History is always entirely different to what has...

I do not see how the Creation can be turned into words, let alone letters, hardly even a fiction. History is always entirely different to what has...