I was reading a National Geographic article about some Indonesian village near a particularly vicious volcano. There was this quote about a farmer called Udi at the time of an eruption: "Even the resident monkeys descended in droves, but not Udi and his fellow villagers."
I think I don't need to elaborate.
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"But some stories, small, simple ones about setting out on adventures or people doing wonders, tales of miracles and monsters, have outlasted all the people who told them, and some of them have outlasted the lands in which they were created."
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