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What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? you wear out. you say: there is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it history.

-Ursula K. Le Guin

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What Is The Use Trying To Describe

Ursula K. Le Guin

What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? you wear out. you say: there is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it history.

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