gwern comments on Entangled Truths, Contagious Lies - Less Wrong

23 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 October 2008 11:39PM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 19 October 2008 07:56:47PM 3 points [-]

Nothing is lost; the universe is honest, Time, like the sea, gives all back in the end, But only in its own way, on its own conditions: Empires as grains of sand, forests as coal, Mountains as pebbles. Be still, be still, I say; You were never the water, only a wave; Not substance, but a form substance assumed.

- Elder Olson, 1968

Comment author: gwern 11 May 2010 11:51:19PM *  2 points [-]

"Every shrub, every tree -
if one has not forgotten
where they were planted -
has beneath the fallen snow
some vestige of its form."

--Shōtetsu