By the persistent and disciplined honing of his own personality, by his intellectual grasp of the economic and social complexes at hand, and by giving thought to the leadership and structure of the state as a whole, he hoped to help bring the new era to birth…

I am the Conjuction.

Even the Ice Maiden, who emerged from her palace of ice, was carried down the river on a fir-tree trunk like a broken skiff.

Rivers may not physically have wings, but they possess a transcendental quality that allows them to mirror the spirits of nature…