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"Gaps don't/just happen."/There is a/generative element/inside them, a welling motion/as when cold/waters shoulder/up through/warmer oceans./And where gaps do choose to widen,/coordinates warp, even in places/constant since the oldest maps. In this quote, Thoreau explains the way in which the universe works. When an ocean becomes too warm it will rise up through less salty ocean water until it hits the top. The same thing happens when the gap between two pieces of land becomes too wide. The two pieces of land will begin to pull away from each other and eventually will split in half.
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