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I have forgotten all about the woman from Landbrot in the excitement over this great concert at Austurvöllur – which never came to anything, of course. The visitor who had come to see the rest of us had to sail away the day before he was due to sing, naturally, because he was committed to the wider world for greater things which could not wait. But the visitor who had come to see the woman from Landbrot, he stayed.
"Learn never to look forward to anything," said the woman. "It is the beginning of knowing how to endure everything."