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Yet, for all its irretrievability, for all the gulfs that time creates, perpetually marooning us on the little island of the present, reaching out to touch the same object that inspired my six-year-old self helps to confer some sense of continuity to set beside all the changes that separate now from then.
Commenting on their irretrievability and demonstrating his flair for words, he wrote that such a policy was "indefensible" in an environment of machine retrieval and that articles "indexed in such general terms are merely occupying space on the citation file" (Lancaster, 1969a, p.
Pather Panchali for them symbolized both the irrevocability of childhood and the irretrievability of nature's abundance.
 
 
 
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