“Great Weaver from Kashmir”

I’ve made a pact with the Lord about becoming the most perfect man on earth . . . remade so that I might compose perfect poems on the beauty of God. . . . I am the Great Weaver from Kashmir.” Well, then. “I think you might have lost your marbles,” says Dilja. 

~’The Great Weaver From Kashmir‘ or ‘Vefarinn Mikli frá Kasmír’ (1927) by Icelandic novelist Halldór Laxness.

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Image: Man weaving cashmere shawl (1924). via New York State Archives.