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where the ocean writes the same letter to land forever, never expecting a reply
means The land along the edge of a sea, lake, or other large body of water, where it meets the water.
from From Old English 'scora,' related to Middle Dutch 'schore' and Middle Low German 'schor.' The roots are murky, but many trace it back to a Germanic word meaning 'to cut' (a cousin of 'shear' and 'score') — the shore as the line where land is cut off, the place water has trimmed away the edge of the world.
- always moving
- Coastlines shift constantly; maps of them are polite fiction
- fractal trick
- Measured finer, every coastline grows nearly infinite in length
- oldest border
- Sea-land edge predates every nation and outlives them all
- erosion math
- Some cliffs retreat over a meter every single year
- nautical roots
- "Off shore" once meant safely beyond reach of land's dangers
cape cod massachusetts — iconic sandy coastal peninsula extending 70 miles into the atlantic ocean
cliffs of moher ireland — dramatic sea cliffs in county clare rising up to 1,220 feet above the atlantic
big sur california — rugged coastline on california's central coast where mountains meet the pacific ocean