#halldorlaxness — Public Fediverse posts

#NowReading #IcelandicFiction #Novel

"And when the spring breezes blow up the valley; when the spring sun shines on last year’s withered grass on the river banks; and on the lake; and on the lake’s two white swans; and coaxes the new grass out of the spongy soil in the marshes—who could believe on such a day that this peaceful, grassy valley brooded over the story of our past; and over its spectres? People ride along the river, along the banks where side by side lie many paths, cut one by one, century after century, by the horses of the past—and the fresh spring breeze blows through the valley in the sunshine. On such a day the sun is stronger than the past.

A new generation forgets the spectres that may have tormented the old.”

From the novel Independent People: An Epic by #HalldórLaxness (1934; English trans. 1945)

"Whoever doesn’t live in poetry cannot survive here on earth."

~ Halldór Laxness, born today, 1902.

#HalldórLaxness #Quote #Today

(Was plenty of fun to make, but I'd really like to go more back in the direction of lyrics with more depth... now working on a #shoegaze track based on #Hávamál and some #HalldórLaxness)

#13books that I think about often:

#OliverSacks Musicophilia

#WillAitken Antigone Undone: #JulietteBinoche, #AnneCarson, #IvoVanHove, and the Art of Resistance

#NickCave, And the Ass Saw the Angel

#MarkZDanielewski House of Leaves

#UmbertoEco The Island of the Day Before

#HermannHesse Glass Bead Game

#PatrickMcCabe Poguemahone

#NealStephenson Anathem

#HalldorLaxness Under the Glacier

#CanXue Frontier

#JohnDarnielle x2: Universal Harvester, Master of Reality

#MaggieRowe Sin Bravely