"With life at stake, the tireless workings of the tide offer themselves up as powerful metaphor. Pick..."

“With life at stake, the tireless workings of the tide offer themselves up as powerful metaphor. Pick your own moment in the endless cycle. The flood is a disaster — or a bounty. The ebb is a melancholic loss. The tide’s constant motion is fickleness. Its guaranteed return is certainty.”

- Hugh Aldersey-Williams, The Tide Also Rises
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