river

Love that river metaphor.

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'One of the Observer pieces that I wrote there in 1975 was an exploration not of a real country but of a fictitious one - the England created in the great sequence of novels that Anthony Powell had just completed, A Dance to the Music of Time - and what particularly struck me about it was Powell's ability to suggest how great changes prepare themselves unseen beneath the apparently tranquil surface of one's life and then deflect it into some new course entirely, in the way that a placid river suddenly goes tumbling through the rapids, before emerging to resume its tranquil course, but running now in some perhaps quite different direction from before.'
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(from the 'Introduction' to Constructions, by Michael Frayn)
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