A sudden gust: How big the world seems in a wind.

 

A sudden gust: How big the world seems in a wind.
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Book 1: "Awake to Emptiness", Ch. 1

 

Kim Stanley Robinson

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So many gods, so many creeds;
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
Is all the sad world needs.

 

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