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Letter: Blowin' in the wind

Published 23 November 2002

From Duncan Cameron

Ed Douglas is generally correct to say “in the popular imagination mountains are indestructible” (2 November, p 31). However, some forty years ago Bob Dylan warned of this fallacy when he sang: “How many years can a mountain exist before it is washed to the sea?… The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind.”

St Asaph, Denbighshire, UK

Issue no. 2370 published 23 November 2002

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