World Light (2007)
“He did not have Hlaupa-Halla’s obstinate, uncompromising, unbreakable temperament, which can endure lifelong despair without giving up.It was now late, and the woman had gone. He stood in the road, alone under the care of Providence, soaked to the skin and already beginning to regret that he had not eaten more in the pastor’s kitchen. And now he had reached the point where he no longer appreciated to the full the unbelievable miracle that had happened to him a few days previously, when he was e...levated into that strange perpendicular condition which is man’s answer to the law of gravity; instead he stared into the blue and asked the Creator of Miracles: If a person has been chopped into pieces and salted down in a barrel, is it a better deed to raise him from the dead or to let him remain in the brine?Then Providence led him on his way, as it leads all people on their way. He began to wander round the estate in the night rain when everyone else had gone to bed. And it was not long before he was standing in the roadway between the two houses.MoreLess
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