Jun 23, 2016
You can look at figures like this and see figures, or you can see the running record of a man's life, the scratchings he made on the face of the earth; his doings. His history. One town, this size, it doesn't amount to much; but the world, after all, is only a mess of towns, some big, some small. The history of the world's nothing but town records of one kind or another...
Elbridge Gilman in Ruth Moore’s Speak to the Winds (1956)