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First Known When Lost: Bourne.
One of the wondrous things about reading Ruskin is that you never know what is around the corner. This may seem like a truism: after all, do we ever know what any writer will say next? But in Ruskin the degree of surprise is enhanced due, first, to his passion for all the particulars of the World and, second, to the universe-wide range of his mind, which may at any moment alight anywhere. Hence, when I was not expecting it, out of the blue comes a delightful disquisition on "bourne."
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