CoDex 1962 Quotes

“To be something, to have status in society, to be born at the centre of things, to live through momentous times, to be part of the world’s anthology of stories - if only in the gap between the lines, between the words, between the letters, or even in the minute blank space inside the lower-case ‘e’, just once in that dauntingly long book; could there be any more human desire than that? Don’t we all long to be something, to feel that we exist, that others notice our existence, for the brief space of time that we are here?”
― Sjón, Codex 1962

“The malady had him in it's grip - and he had the malady.
Rolling to the wall and rolling away again, rolling to a fro, rolling and rolling, back and forth like chaff and corn, like corn and chaff. He drove his head into the pillow: if only he could keep his head still for a moment the lump would leave his throat. And if the lump left his throat, he would be able to catch his breath. And if he could catch his breath, his stomach muscles would relax. And is his stomach muscles relaxed, his colon wouldn't contract. And if his colon didn't contract, perhaps he would be able to keep his head still for a moment.

So it is to be at sea.”
― Sjón, Codex 1962