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“So that you don’t forget to feel, so you don’t change into a picture on the wall, a chair in the living room, a piece of furniture in front of the T.V, into someone staring at a computer screen, into something inert, so that you don’t become something that hardly notices anything”

“If we give up on the impossible, to capture what’s out of life’s reach, we’ll fail, fail so completely that no power will be able to amend it…this is why Ari and I play music so loudly that Heaven simply has to hear it”

“You lose what you don’t think about”

Then comes the January night, which can be so deep, so murky, that whoever wakes within it and looks outside is convinced that the sun will never rise again into this world of darkness and stars

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The sea makes us men-the longest day in human history

Remember this with us: the sea is bigger than daily life.

You can find rest at sea. There you find vastness, incomprehensible dimensions that soothe, comfort and diminish life's difficulties. People's troubles on land, friction, frustration, interactions with others, obligations, you gaze into the waves and sense how existence is calmed within your chest.

It's February and the heart of Tito, the dictator of Yugoslavia, seems to be failing, Ari reads about it on the front page of the Morgunblaðið; the top story is a fragile heart. Yugoslavia is a large country on the Balkan peninsula with about ten million inhabit-ants, but their fate is hanging by a fragile heart. Does that mean that the world cares after all, that life matters? Ari eats porridge.