“Rivers of creative flow are log jammed w/ heads holding on to incompletions, old business, & avoided decisions.”

"History as Counter-Method and Anti-Abstraction," Clio and the Doctors (1974)
Context: History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles many waters and holds in solution invisible substances stolen from distant soils. Anything may become part of it; that is why it can be an image of the continuity of mankind. And it is also why some of its freight turns up again in the social sciences: they were constructed out of the contents of history in the same way as houses in medieval Rome were made out of stones taken from the Coliseum. But the special sciences based on sorted facts cannot be mistaken for rivers flowing in time and full of persons and events. They are systems fashioned with concepts, numbers, and abstract relations. For history, the reward of eluding method is to escape abstraction.

Old Path White Clouds : Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha (1991) Parallax Press ISBN 81-216-0675-6

River out of Eden (1995)

Source: Midnight Predator

Introduction
Poker Night (2004)

Source: Ready Player One

Source: Medea (431 BC), Line 409