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A few years ago, Andri Snaer Magnason, one of Iceland’s most beloved writers and public intellectuals, was asked by a leading climate scientist why he wasn’t writing about the greatest crisis mankind has faced. Magnason demurred: he wasn’t a specialist, he said; it wasn’t his field. But the scientist persisted:…
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My friend, the author, stood to be President. He didn't get in. But he was instead asked to write an elegy for a glacier,the first to disappear in Iceland. It gleamed white as marble, now the cone volcano is only ash and lava. Andri wrote, "How do you say goodbye to a glacier?" Words now fail us, and this in a country with a famed body of sagas written 1000 years ago.
This is a gorgeous book about large and long time, and our small lives, about agency and creating new mythologies. We may find stories where the "ever after"…
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