Re: [Cz-L] Eternity

Hendrik Van Loon's complete 'Story of Mankind' is available on-line at:
http://www.authorama.com/story-of-mankind-3.html
Best,
jerome

On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 14:32 +0300, HARDY BREIER wrote:
> 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 spouts out water
> day and night.
> Thirsty horses come to quench their thirst.
> They drink and drink and drink.
> Then they relieve 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 History).
> Hardy
>
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