Re: [Cz-L] Eternity

Hi Hardy,
Thanks for the legend, once upon the time I had my own van Loon , I would
like to read it again...
but about the legend of the Ham, I believe its your's...and very interesting
the"paralell"
Please, put together all your written and unwritten thoughts, it will become
a bestseller!
Hedwig
----- Original Message -----
From: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>
To: "Lucca" <lucca99_at_netvision.net.il>; "Hedwig Brenner"
<hedbren_at_zahav.net.il>
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 9:03 AM
Subject: Eternity

> High up in the North in the land called Svithjod, there stands a rock. It
> is
> one hundred miles high and one hundred miles wide. Once every thousand
> years
> a little bird comes to this rock to sharpen its beak. When the rock has
> thus
> been worn away, then a single day of eternity will have gone by.
>
> ( From the Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon)
>
> Down at the Ham in Czernowitz the artesian fountain spouted out water
> day and night. Thirsty horses came to quench their thirst.
> They drank and drank and drank.
> Then they relieved themselves copiously.
> When the Ham will thus become a lake a single day of Czernowitzer
> history will be written.
> ( From Hardy's annals of Czernowitz Jewry).
> Hardy
>
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