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where land loses an argument with the ocean, one wave at a time.
means the boundary where terrestrial and marine worlds negotiate, endlessly, and never sign a treaty.
from from old french coste, meaning rib or side, because early sailors saw shorelines as the ribs of a landmass hugging the sea.
length paradoxmeasured length grows as your ruler shrinks, forever
coastline paradoxnamed for mandelbrot, birthed fractal geometry itself
global lengthroughly 620,000 kilometers, depending who is measuring
erosion ratesome cliffs retreat meters yearly, permanently uninsurable