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Martha Ostenso

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Martha Ostenso (17 September 1900 – 24 November 1963) was a Norwegian American novelist and screenwriter who is also an important figure in Canadian literary history.

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Once a man had thrust his hands into the soil and knew the grit of it between his teeth, he felt something rise within him that was not of his day or generation, but had persisted through birth and death from a time beyond recall.

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The wild geese were passing over. . . . There was an infinite cold passion in their flight, like the passion of the universe, a proud mystery never to be solved.

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