... the meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river. (Jonathan Safran Foer)

... the meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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