There’s a line in one of Thomas Hardy’s novels that I remember the gist of, but can’t track down. I can’t remember which novel it’s in, and I love Hardy, so I have read many. It’s something about an old farm gatepost, smoothed in a patina of grime from generations and generations of cows rubbing against it as they passed. The line about all those long d…
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