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- From: kubo@boucher.harvard.edu (Tal Kubo)
- Newsgroups: alt.quotations
- Subject: Re: Explain this group
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.194238.18767@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 00:42:37 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.132320.14478@samba.oit.unc.edu> <COLUMBUS.92Dec21093209@strident.think.com>
- Organization: Dept. of Math, Harvard Univ.
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- In article <COLUMBUS.92Dec21093209@strident.think.com>
- columbus@strident.think.com (Michael Weiss) writes:
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- >Verily, there is indeed nothing new under the sun. I could swear I've
- >read the above sentiment, except more pithily expressed.....
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- There is a beautiful formulation in a story by Erich Kastner:
- "there is no freshly fallen snow". It goes on to explain that even
- if you go to the top of the most faraway peak, you will find old tracks
- in the snow that mark the passage of others.
-