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Allar ferðir mannanna eiga sér tvo áfangastaði. Þann sem væntingin fóstrar og þann sem ferðamaðurinn gistir. 
Sá sem fer á útnes fjarri öllu sem hann þekkir og öllum viðmiðum, hann glatar fyrst minningunni sem bendir heim. Sá sem ferðast í eyðimörk án þekkjanlegs sjóndeildarhrings þráir vit og fegurðarskyn Bedúínans. 
Hann þráir hugsanir hans og kænskuna til að lifa af, hann þráir fegurð eyðimerkurinnar og virðir hana eins og vatnsdropa sem svala.
Grænland á sér engin viðmið nema þau sem teljast til Grænlands. Enginn staðall er nægjanlega brattur, þögull, gamall og skeytingarlaus. Þeir sem dvelja þar fara þangað til að játast fegurð sem gagntekur höfuðáttirnar og höfuðið sjálft, norðan, sunnan, austan og vestan.
Þessi fegurð spyr ekki ferðamenn álits, hún er ekki í samtali sem væntir svars. 
Þessi fegurð sem er hvítgul af fitu og grágrýtishrá undir turqua logandi blágrænum himni, vill ekkert með þínar skoðanir og þanka. Hún skríður áfram upptekin við að naga björg og mylja þau til hlýðni. Hún étur sjált úrverk náttúrunnar og tekur frá þér allar árstíðir sem þú stólar á til hvíldar og útivistar. 
Hún lítur ekki undan af tillitsemi við reynsluleysi eða bíður á meðan þú dregur skó á fæturna.
Nei, þessi fegurð er einungis í framsögunni um sjálfa sig. Hún rogast ekki með almenningsálit eða tillitssemi við neitt. Hún er absalútt á móti þér á eins persónulegan hátt og hægt er að fordjarfa merkingarlausri tilvist 
þinni og skoðunum. Hún ýtir þér og eltir þig og gnæfir yfir þér af hrottaskap. Hún gleymir þér á jafn auðveldan hátt og hún tók ekki eftir þér. Hún endurnýjar sig fyrir hverja ábreiðu af tíma sem leggst yfir hana og þrýstir henni fram í forógnar gnýsti sköpunarinnar. Eins og kvikult djásn í ósýnilegri perlufesti heimskautsins er hún móðirin sem horfir á eftir börnunum sínum falla í sjóinn til að leysast þar upp og snjóa á ný.
Þögul og hjalandi framrás þessa miskunarlausa jökulheims endurtekur sig sjaldnar en heimsveldi lifa og gleymast.

English:

Every human journey has two destinations. The one where expectations are to be met and the one that the traveler accommodates. The one that travels to the furthest point far away from any comprehension and norms first loses the memory that points back home. The one that travels into the desert without a recognizable horizon desires the intelligence and the aesthetic sense of the Bedouin. He desires also his thoughts and his cunning ways to survive; he desires the beauty of the desert and values it just like the freshness in a drop of water.

Greenland has no paradigms other than those that have to do with Greenland. No scale is steep enough, quiet enough, old or unmindful enough. Those who dwell there have gone to accept a beauty that consumes the cardinal points and the head itself, from north, south, east and west.

This is a beauty that doesn’t ask for the opinion of the traveler, it is not participating in a dialogue that expects any answer. This beauty is whitish-yellow by fat and is of raw dolerite under the lurid turquoise coloured sky and doesn’t care about your opinions or ideas. It crawls forward busily gnawing at the cliffs and grinds it into submission. It eats nature’s clockwork and sweeps from you all the seasons you’ve reserved for rest and outdoor activities. It doesn’t look away out of consideration of the inexperienced or waits while you put your shoes on your feet.

No, this beauty is only verbalized by itself. It doesn’t stagger about with the public opinion or shows consideration for anybody. It stands against you absolutely in as personal way as it can by ruining your meaningless existence and opinions. It pushes you and follows you and towers over you by unreserved act of cruelty. It forgets you just as easily as it didn’t notice you at first. It renews itself for each layer of time it is covered with and pushes it towards the excruciating grinding of creation. Like a fickle crown jewel of the invisible pearl necklace of the pole it is the mother that watches her children drop into the sea to vapourise and turn again into snow. The silent but gurgling onrush of this relentless glacial world repeats itself less frequently than empires rise and then perish.


(Daníel Þorkell Magnússon)

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released December 17, 2022

Produced by President Bongo

Written, performed and mixed by Áki Ásgeirsson
Trumpet and digital manipulation by Áki Ásgeirsson

LAPB silhouette by Gabríel Patay & Linda Loeskow.
LAPB text by Haukur S. Magnússon
Saga written by Daníel Þorkell Magnússon

Design by Paul McMenamin.
Photography by Stephan Stephensen.

Supported by City of Reykjavík. Reynir Berg Þorvaldsson (RRS) & Tónlistarsjóður

Executive Producer Andri Sveinsson.

Published by Editon Radio Bongo/SMV
Contact: more@radiobongo.fm
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This is a beauty that doesn’t ask for the opinion of the traveler, it is not participating in a dialogue that expects any answer. This beauty is whitish-yellow by fat and is of raw dolerite under the lurid turquoise coloured sky and doesn’t care about your opinions or ideas. It crawls forward busily gnawing at the cliffs and grinds it into submission. ... more

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