Everything seemed meaningless to me. All of a sudden. My own life, the lives of others, of animals of plants, the whole world. It no longer fitted together.
Erlend LoeI have enough trouble with useful information, never mind being burdened with what is useless.
Erlend LoeThe only question that really counts, must be thins one: are things getting better or are they getting worse?
Erlend LoeWhat I could really use is an older man. A mentor. One who could tell me how things fit together. He would have asked me to do chores that I felt were meaningless. I would have been impatient and protested, but done them nonetheless. And eventually, after several months of hard labour, I would have realised that there was a deeper meaning behind it all, and that the master had a cunning plan all the time.
Erlend Loe