bancando o banqueiro

(...) Because Iceland is really just one big family, it’s simply annoying to go around asking Icelanders if they’ve met Björk. Of course they’ve met Björk; who hasn’t met Björk? Who, for that matter, didn’t know Björk when she was two? “Yes, I know Björk,” a professor of finance at the University of Iceland says in reply to my question, in a weary tone. “She can’t sing, and I know her mother from childhood, and they were both crazy. That she is so well known outside of Iceland tells me more about the world than it does about Björk.”

Embora o excerto escape à temática, eu gostei muito. À parte a Björk, este (extenso) artigo da Vanity Fair traça um retrato espantoso e completo dos Islandeses que se deslumbraram com a finança especulativa e mandaram a pesca do bacalhau às urtigas. Correu mal. Recomendo a leitura.