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but loops and zigzags and retreats
The path does not march straight to any point predetermined by man, but loops, and zigzags, and retreats, and returns on itself, like the course of a river beset by rocks and shoals, and parcelled into wandering streams, and lagging in morasses.
— from The Secret of the Totem by Andrew Lang

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