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• 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....
• 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....
• A man fell off a mountain and, as he fell, saw a branch and grabbed for it.
  By superhuman effort he was able to get a precarious grip on it....
• A man fell off a mountain and, as he fell, saw a branch and grabbed for it.
  By superhuman effort he was able to get a precarious grip on it....
• Carl: Oh no! He's going over the falls! Lenny: Oh good.
  He snagged that tree branch. Carl: Oh no! The branch broke off!...
• Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age.
  There is another personage, a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant....
• Jacques: First, you must get to know your lane. Feel the slickness, feel the slippery finish.
  Caresses it, experience it. Quite smooth, isn't it?...
• It was raining heavily, and the motorist had car trouble on a lonely country road.
  Anxious to find shelter for the night, he walked over to a farmhouse and knocked on the front door....