River Creatures

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11 Nov 2006, 9:50 pm

from Richard Bach's Illusions.

Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river. Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current what each had learned from birth. But one creature said at last, "I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom."

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13 Nov 2006, 1:44 am

That's very cosmic.

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13 Nov 2006, 1:58 am

Bach or Bachman?

If it's Bachman then Stephen King actually wrote that.

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13 Nov 2006, 3:03 am

I clicked the link. It is, indeed Richard Bach. Very cool. Thanks.

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