Two men came to a hole in the sky. One asked the other to lift him up … But so beautiful was it in heaven that the man who looked in over the edge forgot everything, forgot his companion whom he had promised to help up and simply ran off into all the splendor of heaven. from an Iglulik Inuit prose poem, early twentieth century, told by INUGPASUGJUK to KNUD RASMUSSEN, the Greenlandic arctic explorer
