One asks and asks and always the answers become more incomprehensible than the question. <b>In the end one becomes an idiot.</b> - Halldór Laxness

When I discovered that history is a fable, and a poor one at that, I started looking for a better fable, and found theology.

They were allowed a little touch at each of the books, but only with their fingertips tonight, literature cannot bear dirty hands; first we'll have to back each volume with paper, the covers must not get dirty, nor the spines slit, books are the nation's most precious possession, books have preserved the nation's life through monopoly, pestilence, and volcanic eruption, not to mention the tons of snow that have lain over the country's widely scattered homesteads for the major part of every one of its thousand years.

It's an old saying that one still has to know something, despite everything.