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There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the great wall of china. solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up the mountain side and slipped down to the depth of the valley.

-W. Somerset Maugham

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There In The Mist, Enormous, Majestic, Silent

W. Somerset Maugham

There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the great wall of china. solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up the mountain side and slipped down to the depth of the valley.

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I certainly don't sit down and plan a book out before i write it. there's a phrase i use called "the valley full of clouds." writing a novel is as if you are going off on a journey across a valley. the valley is full of mist, but you can see the top of a tree here and the top of another tree over there. and with any luck you can see the other side of the valley. but you cannot see down into the mist. nevertheless, you head for the first tree.

I will never forget that the only reason i'm standing here today is because somebody, somewhere stood up for me when it was risky. stood up when it was hard. stood up when it wasn't popular. and because that somebody stood up, a few more stood up. and then a few thousand stood up. and then a few million stood up. and standing up, with courage and clear purpose, they somehow managed to change the world.

The brooks flow to their lover, the sea, and the flowers smile at the object of their passion, the light. the mist rolls down to its beloved, the valley. and i? in me is what brooks do not know, what flowers do not hear, what the mist does not apprehend. you see me alone in my love, solitary in my yearning.

Being honest with you, it's not the 'great' wall of china. it's an all right wall. it's the 'all right wall of china.'

Wherever i am, the world comes after me. it offers me its busyness. it does not believe that i do not want it. now i understand why the old poets of china went so far and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.

Nature is purposeless. nature simply is. we may find nature beautiful or terrible, but those feelings are human constructions. such utter and complete mindlessness is hard for us to accept. we feel such a strong connection to nature. but the relationship between nature and us is one-sided. there is no reciprocity. there is no mind on the other side of the wall.

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