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A Stroll Thru the South of France

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JD Breen
Feb 22, 2000
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Nice, France

February 22, 2000

Were human history a library ravaged by a fire from which only a single book emerged, what we know of it would correspond roughly to a single line in that volume.  

Accepting C.S. Lewis’ analogy, we accommodate our limited power of memory and console our limitless ignorance by supposing that what remains was preserved and rec…

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