#ingri mortenson

[magicaldogtoto]

We all grew up--all of us, from the beginning--in a time of violence and invention, absurdity and Armageddon, prey and witness to the worst and the best in humanity, in a world ruined and made interesting by Loki. I took comfort, as a kid, in knowing that things had always been as awful and as wonderful as they were now, that the world was always on the edge of total destruction, even if, in Maryland in 1969, as today, it seemed a little more true than usual.

-- Michael Chabon, "Introduction," D'aulaires' Book of Norse Myths (1967)